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Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions 1st Edition

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  • Paperback: 334 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (January 29, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596516258
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596516253
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book for a wide range of users; easy to follow; well-written.
By T. Denyer on February 14, 2009
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If you are brand spanking new to web design, and have never coded a single site, you may want to hold off on this book for a minute. I'm not saying it is not for beginners, because it is. Those new to HTML and CSS may want to get the hang of that before jumping into incorporating Ajax and JavaScript along with advanced CSS techniques.

Who is it for? I would recommend this book for art directors, project managers, web designers (all levels), interactive designers, DVD menu designers (though not directly related, you can still take away some important aspects or "patterns"), and especially those that design online training modules (we all know how dull they can be.) Like the DVD menu designers I mentioned above, I think Flash designers can benefit greatly, as well. Though the book is not directly geared toward Flash design, the patterns and "anti-patterns" talked about can easily be used when designing for a Flash experience.

The layout of the book is broken up into the 6 "principles" described in the product description of this book. The sections "Make It Direct" and "Stay on the Page" are by far the two largest sections, for they are the most important of the 6. "Keep it Lightweight" is the shortest section/principle, but by no means is rushed or glossed over. It poses some great design ideas to keep it intuitive, discoverable and keep you from designing 'mouse traps.'

In order to get the most out of this book, you would have to have designed a web site before reading this book. If you are a project manager or art director in charge of a team designing a web site (but not a web designer yourself), it would benefit you greatly to have a general understanding of web design, HTML, what Ajax is, CSS, cross-browser compatibilities, and Javascript.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBest organization of principles for designing Rich Internet Applications I have read so far
By Stefan Leuthold on March 2, 2009
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This book absorbed me for the last weekend, and I have to say, it is the best book in the field of HCI I have come across since reading Tidwell's Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design. Of course, I like everything that happens to quote Cooper's About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design and Raskin's The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (ACM Press) - but this one gave me lots of new, practical ideas for the web, and a consistent terminology I can use to think and talk about Rich Internet Applications.

Nicely organized and layouted, well-written, and, in my opinion, thought-through easy-to-grasp structure. I was studying many patterns in the Yahoo! pattern library online and I am glad that Bill Scott finally published a book with the same clarity and logic that I came to like online.

Will become a standard in the company I work for and I am sure our clients will already start to "fear" discussions around the six principles when arguing with our consultants for what should be done and how :-)

Great book.
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3.0 out of 5 starsAn Embarrassment of Riches
By David Pepper on July 9, 2009
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Scott is a/the genius behind Netflix and Yahoo!'s interfaces, so I got this book to figure out how to make my web interface programming work more professional.

However, much of what I've read here goes against the spirit of the design I was taught to do in grad school. For example, Netflix/Yahoo! make complex designs that are highly functional for expert users, and at-least reasonably usable for intermediate users. These designs feature transitions which use fades, transparent controls which only become visible when a user hovers, and dueling interfaces which allow power-users to move at a different speed than weaker users, etc.

By comparison, my grad program emphasizes designing for readability, learnability and with a singular notion of organizational principles structuring content in such a way that it is accessible to humans, search engines, and user agents (speech synthesis for visually impaired users). In Designing Web Interfaces, this perspective is consistently swept aside in the quest to build "rich interactions" at the expense of these peripheral users.

The result for me of this encounter with "Designing Web Interfaces" has been a renewed appreciation of how hard it is to make interface design choices. So often design is a question of framing, which establishes who the audience is, what the goals are, and what standards to use for a product.

I think at best, this book offers insight into future trends of professional design -- what Scott calls "rich interactions". However, I have a feeling that I'll always be more on the novice/disabled/user-agent user's side, leaning towards standard-based and user-centered designs, no matter what these captains of industry are cooking up.
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2.0 out of 5 starsBit of a disappointment
By Open Source Advocate on December 29, 2012
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I got this hoping to collect a few new tips and tools for making cleaner interfaces. Generally I have a lot of respect for O'reilly books but this one let me down. It seems more to be a collection of desktop user interfaces from the late 90s and screenshots of old versions of very popular websites such as Amazon. If you've never done any web design then this will at least introduce you to the common terms for different interface pieces but has no implementation details and can't be referred to as "current" in any sense of the word.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Book.

Great Book. This was required for a class I was taking and it has a lot of useful information.

Published 10 months ago by DJ
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book, love it!

Great book and just as described, thank you!

Published 19 months ago by perry tovrea
3.0 out of 5 starsGood starter book

Good advice but pretty basic and not terribly current in its examples.Also some of the "good" examples it uses aren't necessarily ones I personally agree with (yahoo, yahoo... Read more

Published on November 4, 2013 by robin
4.0 out of 5 starsIntro/Basics

This book is a rudimentary text on web interfaces. This is a great way to get started in the world of UI/UX.

Published on December 19, 2012 by Abraham Elmahrek
3.0 out of 5 starsAsk Felgall - Book Review

This book works its way step by step through the principles of good interface design and how to use it with the web. Read more

Published on December 14, 2011 by Stephen Chapman
2.0 out of 5 starsOutdated but still useful

This book is very well crafted and compiles a very solid body of knowledge that too many UI designers simply ignore. Read more

Published on November 14, 2011 by Luca Candela
5.0 out of 5 starsVery practical and Informative

I purchased many books on web interface design focusing on Ajax and found this one to be the most practical and informative. Read more

Published on April 29, 2011 by SAT
4.0 out of 5 starsCollection of detailed web UI design advice

I think there are two kinds of "design" books in the web industry: Those who describe a design process (or a methodology) and those who go into the details of user interface... Read more

Published on March 24, 2011 by Pirkka Rannikko
2.0 out of 5 starsMaybe a good reference book, but it contains no code.

I got this book at the library, looked promising. Is a good reference book on how to design websites, but it does not show you how to code ANYTHING. Read more

Published on January 21, 2011 by JMiller
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Book

If you are an interface designer, this book is a must read. The patterns discussed are some things that every ixd should consider and think about in their practice.

Published on October 8, 2010 by scott

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