Web Design Bibliography

enhancement is an approach to web development that aims to deliver the best possible experience to the widest possible audience, and simplifies coding and testing as well. Whether users are viewing your sites on an iPhone, the latest and greatest high-end system, or even hearing them on a screen-reader, their experience should be easy to understand and use, and as fully-featured and functional as possible. This book is a practical guide to understanding the principles and benefits of progressive enhancement, and a detailed exploration of examples that will teach you, whether you’re a designer or a developer, how, where, and when to implement the specific coding and scripting approaches that embody progressive enhancement.
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    Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability
    By Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney
    Morgan Kaufmann, November 2008
    ISBN: 9780080948485
    216 pages, $49.95

    Forms are everywhere on the web — for registration and communicating, for commerce and government. Good forms make for happier customers, better data, and reduced support costs. Bad forms fill your organization’s databases with inaccuracies and duplicates and can cause loss of potential consumers. Designing good forms is trickier than people think. This book clearly explains exactly how to design great forms for the web. Liberally illustrated with full-color examples, it guides readers about how to define requirements, how to write questions that users will understand and want to answer, and how to deal with instructions, progress indicators and errors.
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    Effective UI
    By Jonathan Anderson, John McRee, Robb Wilson, The EffectiveUI Team
    O’Reilly Media, Inc., February 2010
    ISBN: 9781449380465
    320 pages, $44.99

    This book provides a complete roadmap to building groundbreaking software centered on user experience (UX) quality, how to get management support, employing product management strategies proven to deliver greater success, and how to manage the design, engineering, staffing, and business considerations that must be centered on the user’s needs and working effectively in tandem all throughout the project. This book is a guide for business and product, software professionals, and anyone else struggling to advance the cause of better UX and working to deliver on the promise of higher quality software.
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    A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making
    By Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler
    New Riders, March 2009
    ISBN: 9780321603685
    288 pages, $39.99

    This book shows you how to integrate UX principles into your project from start to finish. In it you will learn how to define the scope of your project and avoid mission creep, how to conduct user research and document your findings, design and prototype your application or site, and learn how to plan for development, product rollout, and ongoing quality assurance.
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    Prototyping
    By Todd Zaki Warfel
    Rosenfeld Media, November 2009
    ISBN: 9781457102417
    195 pages, $22.00

    This book shows how prototypes are more than just a design tool by demonstrating how they can help you market a product, gain internal buy-in, and test feasibility with your development team.
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    Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices, Second Edition
    By Dan Saffer
    New Riders, August 2009
    ISBN: 9780321679406
    240 pages, $45.00

    This thought-provoking new edition offers the perspective of one of the most respected experts in the field, Dan Saffer. This book will help you learn to create a design strategy that differentiates your product from the competition, use design research to uncover people’s behaviors, motivations, and goals in order to design for them and employ brainstorming best practices to create innovative new products and solutions. It also offers interviews and case studies from industry leaders on prototyping, designing in an Agile environment, service design, robots, and more.
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    Scott & Neil’s Designing Web Interfaces Master Class
    By Theresa Neil, Bill Scott
    O’Reilly Media, April 2010
    ISBN: 9781449383329
    4 hours 10 minutes, $79.99

    Want to learn how to create great user