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  • Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience

    • ASIN: 1491921560
    • ISBN: 9781491921562
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

    Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain themselves in a way that is compelling and fosters agreement. The ability to effectively articulate design decisions is critical to the success of a project, because the most articulate person often wins. This practical book provides principles, tactics... [Read More]

  • Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

    • ASIN: 1583333789
    • ISBN: 1862548862
    • Brand: Stuart Brown
    • Manufacturer: Avery

    From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition,... [Read More]

  • Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Guidelines

    • ASIN: 0124079148
    • ISBN: 9780124079144
    • Brand: Morgan Kaufmann
    • Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann

    In this completely updated and revised edition of Designing with the Mind in Mind, Jeff Johnson provides you with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that user interface (UI) design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list or rules to follow. Early UI practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology... [Read More]

  • Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love

    • ASIN: 1591847125
    • ISBN: 1591847125
    • Brand: Richard Sheridan
    • Manufacturer: Portfolio

    “A guidebook for how leaders can motivate, engage, and recognize their people all the while growing the business profitably.” —Forbes.comEvery year, thousands of visitors come from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They make the trek not to learn about technology but to witness a... [Read More]

  • Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do (Interactive Technologies)

    • ASIN: 1558606432
    • ISBN: 1558606432
    • Brand: Brand: Morgan Kaufmann
    • Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann

    Can computers change what you think and do? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy insurance, or convince you to join the Army? "Yes, they can," says Dr. B.J. Fogg, director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. Fogg has coined the phrase "Captology"(an acronym for computers as persuasive technologies) to capt... [Read More]

  • Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

    • ASIN: 1449379702
    • ISBN: 1449379702
    • Brand: O'Reilly Media
    • Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

    Despite all of the UI toolkits available today, it's still not easy to design good application interfaces. This bestselling book is one of the few reliable sources to help you navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices and reusable ideas as design patterns, Designing Interfaces provides solutions to common design pr... [Read More]

  • Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

    • ASIN: 0465093655
    • ISBN: 0465093655
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authen... [Read More]

  • Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications Using React and Redux (2nd Edition)

    • ASIN: 013484355X
    • ISBN: 013484355X
    • Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional

    Learning React A hands-on guide to building web applications using React and Redux As far as new web frameworks and libraries go, React is quite the runaway success. It not only deals with the most common problems developers face when building complex apps, it throws in a few additional tricks that make building the visuals for such apps muc... [Read More]

  • Learn FileMaker Pro 16: The Comprehensive Guide to Building Custom Databases

    • ASIN: 1484228626
    • ISBN: 9781484228623
    • Manufacturer: Apress

    Extend FileMaker's built-in functionality and totally customize your data management environment with specialized functions and menus to super-charge the results and create a truly unique and focused experience. This book includes everything a beginner needs to get started building databases with FileMaker and contains advanced tips and techniques ... [Read More]

  • The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

    • UPC: 636920001089
    • ASIN: 0596001088
    • ISBN: 0596001088
    • Brand: Brand: OREILLY ASSOCIATES
    • Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

    Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborat... [Read More]

  • Human Factors in Safety-Critical Systems

    • ASIN: 0750627158
    • ISBN: 0750627158
    • Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann

    Safety-critical systems are found in almost every sector of industry. Faults in these systems will result in a breach of safe operating conditions and exposure to the possible risk of major loss of life or catastrophic damage to plant, equipment or the environment. An understanding of the basis for the functioning of these systems is therefore vita... [Read More]

  • Kasparov versus Deep Blue: Computer Chess Comes of Age

    • ASIN: 0387948201
    • ISBN: 0387948201
    • Manufacturer: Springer

    In February 1996, a chess-playing computer known as Deep Blue made history by defeating the reigning world chess champion, Gary Kasparov, in a game played under match conditions. Kasparov went on to win the six-game match 4-2 and at the end of the match announced that he believed that chess computing had come of age. This book provides an enthralli... [Read More]

  • Designing Virtual Worlds

    • UPC: 076092022404
    • ASIN: 0131018167
    • ISBN: 9780131018167
    • Manufacturer: New Riders

    Designing Virtual Worlds is the most comprehensive treatment of virtual world design to-date from one of the true pioneers and most sought-after design consultants. It's a tour de force of VW design, stunning in intellectual scope, spanning the literary, economic, sociological, psychological, physical, technological, and ethical underpinnings of d... [Read More]

  • Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World

    • ASIN: 0123822297
    • ISBN: 9780123822291
    • Brand: Morgan Kaufmann
    • Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann

    Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL offers backgrounds in information studies, computer science, and sociology. This book is divided into three parts: analyzing social media, NodeXL tutorial, and social-media network analysis case studies. Part I provides background in the history and concepts of social media and social networks. Also inclu... [Read More]

  • Learning to Program with MATLAB: Building GUI Tools

    • ASIN: 0470936444
    • ISBN: 0470936444
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

    The text is for instructors who want to use MATLAB to teach introductory programming concepts. Since many students struggle with applying the concepts that underlie good programming practice,  Learning to Program with MATLAB: Building GUI Tools was designed upon the observation that student learning is enhanced if the students themselves build th... [Read More]

  • Django Programming Language. In 8 Hours, For Beginners, Learn Coding Fast! Django Crash Course, QuickStart Tutorial Book by Django Program Examples, In Smart Easy Steps! An Ultimate Beginner's Guide!

    • ASIN: B07KVXWNGX
    • Manufacturer: Django Programming Language Python framework library application Python Programming Language

    This is a zero-risk investment, If you are not satisfied with the eBook, you can get a full refund within 7 days! About This BookThis Book Absolutely for Beginners:“Django in 8 Hours” covers all essential Django language knowledge. You can learn complete primary skills of Django programming fast and easily. The book includes more than 60 pract... [Read More]

  • Interdisciplinary Interaction Design: A Visual Guide to Basic Theories, Models and Ideas for Thinking and Designing for Interactive Web Design and Digital Device Experiences

    • ASIN: 0982634811
    • ISBN: 0982634811
    • Manufacturer: Assiduous Publishing

    Interaction design has many dimensions to it. It addresses how people deal with words, read images, explore physical space, think about time and motion, and how actions and responses affect human behavior. Various disciplines make up interaction design, such as industrial design, cognitive psychology, user interface design and many others. It is my... [Read More]

  • Personalized Digital Television: Targeting Programs to Individual Viewers (Human-Computer Interaction Series)

    • ASIN: 1402021631
    • ISBN: 1402021631
    • Manufacturer: Springer

    TV viewers today are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information, and challenged by the plethora of interactive functionality provided by current set-top boxes. To ensure broad adoption of this technology by consumers, future Digital Television will have to take usability issues thoroughly into account. In particular, serious attention must be p... [Read More]

  • Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets

    • UPC: 076092035428
    • ASIN: 0131473816
    • ISBN: 9780131473812
    • Manufacturer: Prentice Hall

    "This book is the best way for beginning developers to learn wxWidgets programming in C++. It is a must-have for programmers thinking of using wxWidgets and those already using it." –Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software and the Open Source Applications Foundation Build advanced cross-platform applications that support native look-and-feel ... [Read More]

  • Designing Mobile Interfaces: Patterns for Interaction Design

    • ASIN: 1449394639
    • ISBN: 1449394639
    • Brand: Brand: O'Reilly Media
    • Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

    With hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available today, your app has to capture users immediately. This book provides practical techniques to help you catch—and keep—their attention. You’ll learn core principles for designing effective user interfaces, along with a set of common patterns for interaction design on all types of mobil... [Read More]

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