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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design 2nd Edition

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Despite all of the UI toolkits available today, it's still not easy to design good application interfaces. This bestselling book is one of the few reliable sources to help you navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices and reusable ideas as design patterns, Designing Interfaces provides solutions to common design problems that you can tailor to the situation at hand.

This updated edition includes patterns for mobile apps and social media, as well as web applications and desktop software. Each pattern contains full-color examples and practical design advice that you can use immediately. Experienced designers can use this guide as a sourcebook of ideas; novices will find a roadmap to the world of interface and interaction design.

  • Design engaging and usable interfaces with more confidence and less guesswork
  • Learn design concepts that are often misunderstood, such as affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance, and the use of color
  • Get recommendations for specific UI patterns, including alternatives and warnings on when not to use them
  • Mix and recombine UI ideas as you see fit
  • Polish the look and feel of your interfaces with graphic design principles and patterns

    "Anyone who's serious about designing interfaces should have this book on their shelf for reference. It's the most comprehensive cross-platform examination of common interface patterns anywhere." --Dan Saffer, author of Designing Gestural Interfaces (O'Reilly) and Designing for Interaction (New Riders)

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    1449379702
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    978-1449379704
  3. Edition
    2nd
  4. Publisher
    O'Reilly Media
  5. Publication date
    February 8, 2011
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7 x 0.95 x 9.19 inches
  8. Print length
    575 pages
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Jenifer Tidwell has been designing and building user interfaces for industry for more than a decade. She has been researching user interface patterns since 1997, and designing and building complex applications and web interfaces since 1991.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 2nd edition (February 8, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 575 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449379702
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449379704
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.95 x 9.19 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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For nearly two decades, Jenifer Tidwell has been designing and building user interfaces for a variety of industry verticals. She has experience in designing both desktop and Web applications, and currently designs and develops websites for small businesses.

She recently worked on redesigning the interface for Google Books. Before that, as a user interface designer at The MathWorks, Jenifer was instrumental in a redesign of the charting and visualization UI of MATLAB, which is used by researchers, students, and engineers worldwide to develop cars, planes, proteins, and theories about the universe.

Jenifer blogs about UI patterns and other design-related topics at http://designinginterfaces.com/blog.

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Adore Yourself
5.0 out of 5 stars this is a great book
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2013
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This book was a required text in one of my classes in an M.S. Program in Instructional Design and Technology at CA State University. It ended up being so good that I intend to keep it as a reference book for website design. I learned how to build websites on the lamb, so to speak, learning what I needed when it was needed, so to see how it is supposed to be done was eye-opening! And after reading this book, I notice all sorts of design components on the Web now that I never noticed before. And I am much clearer on what a good and bad design is now too. This book is VERY clear, which is necessary for this topic. It has screen shots which really help with the learning. It is really more of an interface design reference manual. If you are a web designer who taught yourself but feel like you are missing some crucial things, this book fills in the gaps. I loved this book's clarity and organization and I feel it is a good guide for sane design practices and is worthy of keeping on hand as a reference book. I highly recommend this book.
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Clint Pachl
4.0 out of 5 stars Not for Implementors & Developers (2nd Ed.)
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2011
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WHAT THIS BOOK *IS*:

This book is a complete overview of about 100 UI patterns. Each pattern is given 2-5 pages where the "What", "Use When", "Why", "How", and "Examples" are discussed and illustrated. The presentation is very elementary. For example, if you know when and why to use pagination, alphabet scrollers, toolbars, date pickers, progress indicators, local zooming, multi-selection trees, or sharing widgets (a new pattern in 2ndEd), you probably won't find much value in this book.

The physical quality of the book is excellent. You will most likely be disappointed if viewing this title on a B&W Kindle. Literally, half the book is loaded with full-color, real-life examples of every pattern. The paper pages are thick and heavy.

WHAT THIS BOOK *IS NOT*:

This book will not provide implementation details or overall design concepts (i.e. effectively combining patterns to achieve some targeted overall user experience).

I primarily purchased this book for Chapter 8, "Getting Input from Users: Forms and Controls." I'm currently in the process of redesigning our shopping cart and checkout forms and thought this book may provide some value in my research. As a web developer (front-end & back-end), I was disappointed. I found much more useful information on modern, standards compliance, UI design blogs.

WHY 4 STARS?

I believe the author accomplishes her goal of documenting, with several examples, every conceivable UI pattern in use today, thus the 4 stars. The book is great for the right audience. However, and I quote the author from her own References section, "If you're looking for more depth than this book can provide, the following list can offer some good starting points." She then lists 24 titles, several of which I own. My favorite title in her list is  Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition .
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Jason Frade
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Structure
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2013
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A great aspect of this book that I really enjoyed was that Jenifer taked the time to organize the structure of each chapter perfectly. As a UX Engineer structure to me is very important. Jenifer starts each chapter with a brief description of what she is going to go over in the chapter. Then she continues to give a list of each UI Pattern that she will break down in depth. Each pattern is then broken down into (Why,What, How, and Examples).

Another great thing that Jenifer does is inline references to other topics in the book and she gives the reader the chapter that those topics are on.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is starting out in User Interface Design.
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Mr. Word Sponge
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Designer Resource
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2013
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Detailed, articulate and full of stellar examples. This book should be on every designer's bookshelf. Very good value. Author provides alternative names to patterns, history of patterns that have evolved and ample links to the work of other authors. She did a great job researching these patterns and was consistent in her presentation. Highly recommend this book.
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Bob
4.0 out of 5 stars Very thorough
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015
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Like many other readers have said, it is very thorough. The next time that you browse or design an interface, your background knowledge will be much better. I bought this book to get a better understanding of both user interfaces and user experience analysis, and it was a good investment.

Some suggestions for the third edition:

- The role of intuition in design. The author does indirectly address this when she talks about usability testing and the wide variety of choices in design, but I think something more formal would help. In Ellen Glasgow's introduction to her novel The Sheltered Life, she wrote that after learning all the techniques of writing, a writer should "then, having mastered, if possible, every rule of thumb, dismiss it into the labyrinth of the memory. Leave it there to make its own signals and flash its own warnings. The sensitive feeling, 'this is not right' or 'something ought to be different' will prove that these signals are working."

- Reserving space for dynamic advertising, which is much more prevalent than it was when the second edition was published (2010).

- More magnified views of the parts of examples that were used to make points. Some of these were hard to read.
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M. D. Lutze
3.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction, thin if you already have some experience
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2015
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Strong introduction to web design UI patterns. I've been "in the business" for nearly a decade and was hoping the text would be more advanced than it is. Tidwell approaches the content with a well-thought out structure which I appreciate.

Criticisms: The examples are old now, which will be tough for a web UI book, which it ultimately frames itself to be.

Target audience: New UI / UX designers, students, or professionals who would benefit from having a structured system to explain concepts to management.

It would get a 4 if you're in the above target audience, and that's who really should be picking it up. It would get a 2 for an experienced professional. I was hoping for something more research-based that would expand on my existing toolbox, and unfortunately this isn't the book.

So, overall it comes out with a 3 from me.
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Michael Quinn
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the first UI books you should own
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2017
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Brilliant text. Its on my desk and i refer to it often
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Pierre-Alexandre
5.0 out of 5 stars Just a great purchase
Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2015
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Perfect and as expected. Very fast shipping and cheap!
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T Rao
5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Not a Designer, but I Still Love This Book
Reviewed in India on January 15, 2016
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I read this book as a part of the Coursera's Interaction Design Course. Jenifer Tidwell does a superb job of breaking down complex HCI concepts into human parsable language. I'm a software developer who just happens to be more passionate about the UI than his peers, and this book helped me articulate my ideas in better while interacting with non-technical folks.

If you are a software developer, and you need a slight peak into the design community, this book is a great entry point!
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Keeeb G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Geniales Buch. Leider auch nicht topmodern.
Reviewed in Germany on February 11, 2013
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Ein sehr gutes und Umfangreiches Buch zur Usability. Hat mir bei meiner Diplomarbeit sehr geholfen. Leider vermisse ich auch hier, wie bei so vielen anderen Büchern über Usability etwas mehr Bezug auf die neusten und modernsten Technologien.
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Pietro Gazzera
2.0 out of 5 stars Orientato al Web (ahimè)
Reviewed in Italy on March 31, 2017
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Per me che cercavo idee e scienza su come si organizzano interfacce di comando per applicativi software, un'autentica delusione.
Coloratissimo e molto ricco di informazioni, queste sono pressoché tutte orientate al Web.
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