Web Design Bibliography

Format represents the physical point of contact with the user; affecting how we receive a designs, printed or online information.
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Chapter 3. Planning
    Head First Web Design
    By Ethan Watrall, Jeff Siarto
    O’Reilly Media, December 2008
    ISBN: 9780596157722
    498 pages, $49.99

    This book will help you master what’s really going on in the world of web design. Whether you’re building a personal blog or a corporate website, this book helps you learn the secrets of designing effective, user-friendly sites. Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, this book uses a visually rich format specifically designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.
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    Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web
    By Tim Kadlec
    New Riders, July 2012
    ISBN: 9780132979382
    288 pages, $39.99

    This is a practical examination of how we think about the web affects the way we design and build our sites. Readers will learn how to: build responsive sites using a combination of fluid layouts, media queries, and fluid media, adopt a responsive workflow from the very start of a project, enhance content for different devices, and use feature-detection and server-side enhancement to provide a richer experience.
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    Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works, Second Edition
    By Kelly Goto, Emily Cotler
    Peachpit Press, December 2004
    ISBN: 0735714339
    296 pages, $55.00

    In these pages Web designer Kelly Goto and coauthor Emily Cotler have distilled their real-world experience into a sound approach to Web redesign workflow that is as much about business priorities as it is about good design. By focusing on where these priorities intersect, the authors get straight to the heart of the matter. Each chapter includes a case study that illustrates a key step in the process, and you’ll find a plethora of forms, checklists, and worksheets that help you put knowledge into action.
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    Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, Second Edition
    By Dan M. Brown
    New Riders, September 2010
    ISBN: 9780131385399
    312 pages, $44.99

    Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth discussions of presentation and risk mitigation techniques, this book shows you how to make the documentation you’re required to provide into the most efficient communications tool possible. From usability reports to project plans, content maps, flow charts, wireframes, site maps, and more, each chapter includes a contents checklist, presentation strategy, maintenance strategy, a description of the development process and the deliverable’s impact on the project.
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    The Strategic Web Designer
    By Christopher Butler
    HOW Books, August 2012
    ISBN: 9781440315022
    176 pages, $24.99

    This book provides you with a foundation that will allow you to keep your bearings in an industry filled with constant technological change. You’ll learn to: plan web projects, organize information in ways that make sense, understand analytics, optimize content for search engines and mobile technology, and more. More than a book about building websites, this is your guide to thinking about the web in a strategic and comprehensive manner.
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    Managing the Design Process-Concept Development: An Essential Manual for the Working Designer
    By Terry Lee Stone
    Rockport Publishers, July 2010
    ISBN: 9781592536177
    208 pages, $40.00

    This book is about how to harness the power of graphic design in a real and practical manner. To understand how this collaborative process works will require learning some new language, as well as tools and techniques, in the application of design management and its associated concept design leadership.
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    InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design
    By Erin Anderson, Virginia