The Art and Science of Web Design
Jeffrey Veen
Paperback—259 pages, 1 edition, December 2000
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AMAZON.COM REVIEW EXCERPT:When it comes to Web design, style guides are often too boring and predictable to capture the attention of caffeine-riddled Web developers. But not The Art & Science of Web Design; this book strategically equips readers to design sites effectively. Jeffrey Veen, an established design guru and one of the creators of HotWired.com, has authored a carefully structured look into the undercurrents of Web design. Organized around the key development topics, the book is laden with a historical background of standards, features, and trends. Yet the topics are timeless and core to good Web engineering, so it's space well spent. The mix of expert opinion and historical explanation creates a well-rounded reader experience.
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<Creative HTML Design.2>
Lynda Weinman, William Weinman
Paperback—544 pages, April 2001
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AMAZON.COM REVIEW EXCERPT:Who better to ease you into the detailed world of HTML coding (where even an errant spacebar can gum up your creative masterpiece) than well-known Web design instructor Lynda Weinman and her programmer brother, William. This book's first edition came out over 3 years ago, and the Web has changed a lot in that time. Novices will appreciate this HTML primer that not only helps in hand-coding Web pages but also in troubleshooting the HTML generated by WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Dreamweaver and GoLive and image/animation applications like Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, and ImageReady. more info

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www.color
Roger Pring
Paperback—192 pages, October 2000
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REVIEW EXCERPT:“Do you really need another book about color on the Web? You've already downloaded a Web-safe color palette, you've got a copy of Photoshop and its idiot-proof 'save for Web' command. What more do you need? Well, for starters, I heartily recommend www.color by Roger Pring. Intelligently organized and thoughtfully laid out, www.color presents its lessons in easy-to-understand double-page spreads.... The writing is a model of clarity, precision and wit. When was the last time a how-to manual brought a smile to your face? Pring's comments are so caustically funny, and so on target, they make you laugh out loud while they make their point. Experienced Web designers as well as newcomers to the field will learn much by looking at Pring's examples. They'll learn even more by reading his trenchant remarks.”—Sam McMillan, Communication Arts, Palo Alto, CA, February 2001
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Flash Web Design: The v5 Remix
Hillman Curtis
Paperback—256 pages, February 2001
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AMAZON.COM REVIEW EXCERPT:In Flash Web Design: The v5 Remix, Hillman Curtis places the emphasis firmly on design while he demonstrates the range of techniques that have enabled him to create some of the most compelling Flash movies on the Web. Curtis is chief creative officer and founder of hillmancurtis, inc., a New York City design firm that has produced stunning Flash work for clients like 3Com, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and even Macromedia itself.

The book deconstructs nine high-profile Flash projects created for real-life clients. Curtis takes time both in the introductions and throughout the project deconstructions, to emphasise the importance of thinking about and applying design-led principals to the job at hand. One of the things that makes Curtis successful is his approach to motion, and it's here that the book has the most to offer. Curtis defines what he calls a Global Visual Language "comprised of simple symbology and motion," which makes it possible to communicate a powerful message across cultural barriers. more info

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Experience Design
Nathan Shedroff
Paperback—304 pages, 1st edition, April 2001
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AMAZON.COM REVIEW EXCERPT:This book's layout is itself an experience in experience design. With its dynamic typography and visually elusive chapter divisions, it is definitely not a how-to manual, or even a primer on software. It's more like a visual and textual think-piece: a personal gallery of intriguing user experiences, e.g., online shopping or offline dinner parties—even human-to-human conversation. (You can get an idea of this at the book's companion Web site: www.experiencedesignbooks.com.)

An insightful road guide to the "Experience Economy". Nathan connects the dots and helps us understand the importance of "experience design". An invaluable resource and a must to experience.—Clement Mok, Chief Creative Officer, Sapient. more info

Information Anxiety 2
David Sume, Loring Leifer, Richard Saul Wurman
Paperback—308 pages, December 2000
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AMAZON.COM REVIEW EXCERPT:Information might want to be free; but, why should we free it? We've got enough trouble keeping track of all the petabits that already run around untethered, and risk a computer counterrevolution if we let the situation get much crazier. Information architect Richard Saul Wurman swept the field clear in 1989 with his groundbreaking book that foresaw the problems of data clutter and proposed a radical new means of organizing and presenting knowledge humanistically; for the new century, he has revised it substantially as Information Anxiety 2.—Rob Lightner more info

Jakob Nielsen's 50 Websites: Real World Usability Deconstructed
Jakob Nielsen
Paperback—128 pages, 1 edition, September 2001
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AMAZON.COM REVIEW EXCERPT:The book begins with a briefing on Jakob's web usability principles, themselves culled from years of research. The fifty sites fall under five categories of ten each: Media sites; entertainment sites; technology sites; business sites; and etc. The content is simply presented: Fifty, two-page spreads, each dedicated to a specific web site's homepage. Only the homepage of each site is analyzed. On the left-hand page is a large image of the homepage accompanied by a brief summary of the site's context. On the right-hand page are arrows pointing to each component of the home page with Jakob's comments. There will also be a summarizing few paragraphs where Jakob explains his analysis and offers suggestions for improving the design for usability. more info

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