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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design View Larger Image | Jenifer Tidwell
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published November 2005, 331 pages, ISBN 0596008031 | List Price: $49.95
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Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved,
good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and
a short time to market. Your UI technology -- Web applications, desktop software,
even mobile devices -- may give you the tools you need, but little guidance
on how to use them well. <
UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface design, evolving
many best practices and reusable ideas. If you learn these, and understand why
the best user interfaces work so well, you too can design engaging and usable
interfaces with less guesswork and more confidence.
Designing Interfaces captures those best practices as design patterns
-- solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand. Each
pattern contains practical advice that you can put to use immediately, plus
a variety of examples illustrated in full color. You'll get recommendations,
design alternatives, and warnings
on when not to use them.
Each chapter's introduction describes key design concepts that are often misunderstood,
such as affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance, and the use of
color. These give you a deeper understanding of why the patterns work, and how
to apply them with more insight.
A book can't design an interface for you -- no foolproof design process is given
here -- but Designing Interfaces does give you concrete ideas that you
can mix and recombine as you see fit. Experienced designers can use it as a
sourcebook of ideas. Novice designers will find a roadmap to the world of interface
and interaction design, with
enough guidance to start using these patterns immediately.
About the Author
For more than a decade, Jenifer Tidwell has
been designing and building user interfaces for a variety of industry verticals,
often in the Java programming language. She has experience in designing both
desktop and Web applications. 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.
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