web design books

Web Design Books

In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down and simplify user
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Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?

“While you’re reading Neuro Web Design, you’ll probably find yourself thinking ‘I already knew that…’ a lot. But when…Read Neuro Web Design: What Make…

Designing with the Mind in Mind

User interface (UI) design rules and guidelines, developed by early HCI gurus and recognized throughout the field, were based on…Read Designing with the Mind in Mind

Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed

The book begins with a briefing on Jakob's web usability principles, themselves culled from years of research. The 50 sites fall…Read Homepage Usability: 50 Webs…

Landing Page Optimization

How much money are you losing because of poor landing page design? In this comprehensive, step-by-step guide, you’ll learn all the…Read Landing Page Optimization

Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion

Solve your traffic troubles and turn browsers into buyersWhen web design expert Ben Hunt set out to quantify the difference between an…Read Convert!: Designing Web Sit…

Submit Now

Usability is not enough. This book shows what it takes to design a site so browsers become buyers: the ultimate measurement of success…Read Submit Now

Eyetracking Web Usability

Eyetracking Web Usability is based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence. Best-selling author Jakob…Read Eyetracking Web Usability

Design For How People Learn

Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learning. Many of us are also teaching,…Read Design For How People Learn

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without…Read 100 Things Every Designer N…

Css3 for Web Designers

From advanced selectors to generated content to the triumphant return of web fonts, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to…Read Css3 for Web Designers

Designing for Emotion

Make your users fall in love with your site via the precepts packed into this brief, charming book by MailChimp user experience design…Read Designing for Emotion

Mobile First

Our industry's long wait for the complete, strategic guide to mobile web design is finally over. Former Yahoo! design architect and…Read Mobile First

PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code

PHP Master is tailor-made for the PHP developer who's serious about taking their server-side applications to the next level and who…Read PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code

Letting Go of the Words

"Redish has done her homework and created a thorough overview of the issues in writing for the Web. Ironically, I must recommend that…Read Letting Go of the Words

The Lean Startup

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable.  The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe,…Read The Lean Startup

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't…Read Don’t Make Me Think: …

Web Design for ROI

Your web site is a business—design it like one.Billions of dollars in spending decisions are influenced by web sites. So why aren't…Read Web Design for ROI

Rework

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're…Read Rework

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript

HTML has been on a wild ride. Sure, HTML started as a mere markup language, but more recently HTML’s put on some major muscle. Now…Read Head First HTML5 Programmin…

Head First jQuery

Want to add more interactivity and polish to your websites? Discover how jQuery can help you build complex scripting functionality in…Read Head First jQuery

Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal

How to develop powerful mobile Web sites using popular content management systems (CMS)Mobile is the hottest thing going—and…Read Professional Mobile Web Dev…

Beginning PhoneGap

Create cross-platform mobile apps without having to learn a new language!PhoneGap is an open source solution, ideal for web developers…Read Beginning PhoneGap

Head First Mobile Web

Mobile web usage is exploding. Soon, more web browsing will take place on phones and tablets than PCs. Your business needs a mobile…Read Head First Mobile Web

Digging into WordPress

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Written with the perfect balance of theory, explanation and code, each chapter focuses on teaching you how to improve your site using many different techniques, tips, …

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Web App Success

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Most existing web app books cover a specific stage of the development process, such as the technical build or user interface design.

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