Digital Design Essentials: 100 ways to design better desktop, web, and mobile interfaces - Softcover

Lal, Rajesh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631593633 ISBN 13: 9781631593635

Publisher: Rockport Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Digital Design Essentials takes a practical, highly accessible approach to creating graphical user interface designs for desktop, mobile, and touch screen devices. Written by an expert in the realm of digital design, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide demonstrates how to apply design principles in a variety of desktops, web pages, mobile devices and other touchscreens. Filled with straightforward strategies in a visual format, it’s an essential volume for any designer working in the digital realm.

About this title

From the Author:

Adventures in Digital Design
The story of digital design begins at the User Interface, the point of contact between user and a digital product. This book will take you on a journey of designing User Interfaces for hundred digital products, for desktop, web, mobile, tablets and TVs.  A progressive journey where you will see how digital design has evolved from command line interfaces, to GUIs, to Natural interfaces, to Multi Touch and to Organic User Interfaces. Along the way you will learn how the advancement in technology like capacitive touchscreens, Bluetooth, artificial intelligence and text to speech, has molded the User Interface in innovative ways and taken the digital design to a completely new level. A level where, understanding the context of the product, and their users dictates the design and success of a product is decided by user adoption. 
Steve Jobs used to say, Design is not what it looks like, Design is how it works. This book will rip open the look of digital applications and take you behind the scene. It will show you how design works for 100 different digital applications, ranging from desktop software's, widgets, adaptive web interfaces, innovative mobiles apps and Games on tablets and TVs. 
The book takes a practical approach on design principles and shows you how it can be applied in digital products. The book will guide you through designing interfaces by showing you the big picture view, listing down the design guidelines and best practices and showing real examples and point you how Design principles are successfully applied.

From the Back Cover:

Jacket Copy 
Digital Design Essential
Whether dashboard software or a single-page website, a location-aware mobile app or a 10-foot TV interface, digital design is the tip of the iceberg; the actual design is not how it looks but how it works. Dive deep into the workings of one hundred popular desktop, Web, mobile, and TV user interfaces. 
Digital Design Essentials is a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of user interface design. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, it includes architectural views of the application, best practices and design guidelines, tips for creating a great user experience, along with live examples. Every major user interface concept is defined and illustrated for readers, including command line, "WIMP," metro UI, Skeuomorphic design, accessible web interface, e-commerce, zooming user interface, Infographic design, adaptive interface, mobile lifestyle apps, voice interface, and intelligent user interface. 
Learn best practices, design guidelines and pointers for creating a compelling user experience.
Digital Design Essentials provides the experienced designer with an understanding of application design and user interfaces. Raj Lal points out the different components affecting the user experience and design principles applicable in an array of application interfaces, enabling the reader to understand the inner working of the application, plan key features, apply design guidelines, and choose the best practices instead of reinventing the wheel.
Digital Design Essentials:

• Provides a comprehensive guide to user interface design
• Explains the know-how necessary to understand the application interface
• Points out components affecting the user's experience of the application
• Provides user interface design guidelines and best practices for design
• Illustrates concepts with a case study for each essential, using real-life examples

Digital Design Essentials is an invaluable resource for graphic artists, UI designers, UX gurus, Web designers, RIA, mobile, and device developers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1631593633
• ISBN 13: 9781631593635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208