Sunday, May 9, 2010

5 Nice to Read Ebooks for User Interface Designers

If your are a User Interface Designer and love to read ebooks related to UI Designing then this post going to help you.

In this post you'll find 5 free ebooks (PDF) on User Interface Designing. These all books are very interesting to read and very helpful. Here's the following list:

Element of User Interface Design
Author: Theo Mandel, Ph.D.

Theo Mandel, Ph.D. is an international specialist in the design, development, education and usability testing of PC and Web software. Dr. Mandel designs technology- and business-based Web sites, Web applications and PC applications that are user-centered, task-oriented, enjoyable and usable!

The Elements of User Interface Design is written by a cognitive psychologist and interface design specialist with more than a decade's research and design experience. Writing for novices and veteran designers/developers alike, Dr. Mandel takes you from command-line interfaces and graphical-user interfaces (GUIs) to object-oriented user interfaces (OOUIs) and cutting-edge interface technologies and techniques. Throughout, coverage is liberally supplemented with screen shots, key ideas and case studies that bring interface design principles to life.

The entire book available free in Russian Language - Click here to download

Chapter 5 of the book available in English to free download:

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Task-Centered User Interface Design
Author: Clayton Lewis and John Rieman

The central goal of this book is to teach the reader how to design user interfaces that will enable people to learn computer systems quickly and use them effectively, efficiently, and comfortably. The interface issues addressed are primarily cognitive, that is, having to do with mental activities such as perception, memory, learning, and problem solving. Physical ergonomic issues such as keyboard height or display contrast are covered only briefly.

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Designing the Mobile User Experience
Author: Barbara Ballard

Designing the Mobile User Experience provides the experienced product development professional with an understanding of the users, technologies, devices, design principles, techniques and industry players unique to the mobile and wireless space. Barbara Ballard describes the different components affecting the user experience and principles applicable to the mobile environment, enabling the reader to choose effective technologies, platforms, and devices, plan appropriate application features, apply pervasive design patterns, and choose and apply appropriate research techniques.

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The Essential Guide to User Interface Design: An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques
Author: Wilbert O. Galitz

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design offers page after page of detailed prescriptions for designing interfaces that work. Goldsmith’s scope is comprehensive: He lays out a 12-step approach to UI design that covers everything from how to organize dialog boxes in ways that exploit users’ natural patterns of eye movement, to choosing colors effectively, to picking precisely the right words for error messages. The guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to build software that really works.

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jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery

jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and developer-friendly way.

In this book, you'll learn how each component can be initialized in a basic default implementation and then see how easy it is to customize its appearance and configure its behaviour to tailor it to the requirements of your application. You'll look at the properties and methods exposed by each component's API and see how these can be used to bring out the best in each component.

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Anonymous said...

Thanks, really useful!

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot!

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