The Best User Interfaces Books 2024

1. Practical Web Analytics for User Experience: How Analytics Can Help You Understand Your Users, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - Practical Web Analytics for User Experience teaches you how to use web analytics to help answer the complicated questions facing UX professionals. Within this book, you'll find a quantitative approach for measuring a website's effectiveness and the methods for posing and answering specific questions about how users navigate a website. The book is organized according to the concerns UX practitioners face. Chapters are devoted to traffic, clickpath, and content use analysis, measuring the effectiveness of design changes, including A/B testing, building user profiles based on search habits, supporting usability test findings with reporting, and more. This is the must-have resource you need to start capitalizing on web analytics and analyze websites effectively.

Practical Web Analytics for User Experience: How Analytics Can Help You Understand Your Users, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

2. Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the opportunities for following or disregarding the principles of interface consistency-more computers, more applications, more users, and of course the vast expanse of the Web. On the other, there are the principles themselves, as persistent and as valuable as ever. In these contributed chapters, you'll find details on many methods for seeking and enforcing consistency, along with bottom-line analyses of its benefits and some warnings about its possible dangers. Most of what you'll learn applies equally to hardware and software development, and all of it holds real benefits for both your organization and your users.

Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency, Used [Hardcover]

3. Digital Design Essentials: 100 Ways to Design Better Desktop, Web, and Mobile Interfaces [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. 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.

Digital Design Essentials : 100 Ways to Design Better Desktop, Web, and Mobile Interfaces, Used [Hardcover]

4. Smart Things : Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, Used [Paperback]

The world of smart shoes, appliances, and phones is already here, but the practice of user experience (UX) design for ubiquitous computing is still relatively new. Design companies like IDEO and frogdesign are regularly asked to design products that unify software interaction, device design and service design -- which are all the key components of ubiquitous computing UX -- and practicing designers need a way to tackle practical challenges of design. Theory is not enough for them -- luckily the industry is now mature enough to have tried and tested best practices and case studies from the field. Smart Things presents a problem-solving approach to addressing designers' needs and concentrates on process, rather than technological detail, to keep from being quickly outdated. It pays close attention to the capabilities and limitations of the medium in question and discusses the tradeoffs and challenges of design in a commercial environment. Divided into two sections, frameworks and techniques, the book discusses broad design methods and case studies that reflect key aspects of these approaches. The book then presents a set of techniques highly valuable to a practicing designer. It is intentionally not a comprehensive tutorial of user-centered design'as that is covered in many other books'but it is a handful of techniques useful when designing ubiquitous computing user experiences. In short, Smart Things gives its readers both the "why" of this kind of design and the "how," in well-defined chunks.

Smart Things : Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design, Used [Paperback]

5. The Gui Guide: International Terminology for the Windows Interface/Book and Disk (Microsoft Programming Series) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Provides the guidelines for the development or localization of software for the Microsoft Windows interface. It features standard translations in 13 languages for hundreds of terms, such as scroll bar, title bar, minimize and maximize. More than 400 user interface terms are included.

GUI Guide, Used [Paperback]

6. Gui Design for Dummies [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Users can create successful interfaces with the help of proven design techniques from this guide. Many skill areas are covered to help readers reduce development time and find out how to conduct effective usability tests. The disk contains useful Word documents containing 85% of a finished draft for use as a style guide for a project.

Gui Design for Dummies, Used [Paperback]

7. The Visual Tcl Handbook [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. TCL is a scripting language used by UNIX programmers and systems administrators. Visual Tcl simplifies Tcl and Tk programming. This guide shows programmers with no previous X Windows experience how to grasp Visual Tcl and be able to write graphical programs using the language.

The Visual Tcl Handbook [Paperback - Used]

8. Art of Human-Computer Interface Design [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A compendium of original articles and essays from leading thinkers in the computer industry, including Alan Kay, Nicholas Negroponte, and Don Norman, surveys the range of issues relating to interface design.

The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Used [Paperback]

9. Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Early user interface (UI) practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, from which UI design rules were based. But as the field evolves, designers enter the field from many disciplines. Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to design rules, but it is essential that they understand the psychology behind the rules in order to effectively apply them. In Designing with the Mind in Mind , Jeff Johnson, author of the best selling GUI Bloopers , provides designers with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that UI design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list of rules to follow.

Designing with the Mind in Mind : Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules, Used [Paperback]

10. Qt 5 Blueprints, Used [Paperback]

If you are a programmer looking for a truly cross-platform GUI framework to help you save your time by side-stepping the incompatibility between different platforms and building applications using Qt 5 for multiple targets, then this book is most certainly intended for you. It is assumed that you have a basic programming experience of C++ and fundamental knowledge about Qt.

Qt 5 Blueprints, Used [Paperback]