Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interfaces

Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. If you need to build or renovate a website to be truly interactive, this book gives you the principles for success.

Insights from experts

Distilled from the authors' years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo! and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. There's an entire section devoted to each design principle.

Learn to:

• Edit content in context with design patterns for In Page Editing, Drag and Drop, and Direct Selection
• Reduce the effort required to interact with a site by using In Context Tools to leave a "light footprint"
• Keep visitors on a page with overlays, inlays, dynamic content and in-page flow patterns
• Help visitors discover site features with invitations that cue them to the next level of interaction
• Determine when, why and how to use animations, cinematic effects and other transitions
• Provide a rich experience by using lively responses such as Live Search, Live Suggest, Live Previews and more

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Anyone wanting to quickly design web pages that attract visitors and keep them interested.

Publishing details

• Author(s): Bill Scott, Theresa Neil
• Publisher: O'Reilly
• Published: January, 2009
• Format: Paperback, 332 pages

What's in the box?

• Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions

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