Web Application Design Handbook by Susan Fowler

Web Application Design Handbook by Susan Fowler

Describes the useful widgets and development tools that can lead to the right design solutions for your Web application. This book juxtaposes Web design with programming for the Web and covers design solutions and concepts, such as intelligent generalization, to help software teams successfully switch from one interface to another.

“Susan and Victor have written the 'Junior Woodchucks Guidebook' of Web applications: Everything you need to know is in there, including tons of best-practice examples, insights from years of experience, and assorted fascinating arcanaIf you're writing a Web application, you'd be foolish not to have a copy.” --Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability“Web sites are so nineties. The cutting edge of Web-design has moved to Web applications. If you are, like many Web designers, struggling to create dynamic, highly-functional Web-based applications, you need this book. It describes how Web applications differ from Web sites, and provides excellent guidance for common Web-application design problems, such as navigation, data input, search, reports, forms, and interactive graphic output.” --Jeff Johnson, Principal Usability Consultant, UI Wizards, Inc., and author of Web Bloopers and GUI Bloopers“User interface designers have been debating among themselves for years about how to design effective Web applications. There were no comprehensive references that covered the myriad topics that emerged in these debates until Fowler and Stanwick took on the challenge and wrote Web Application Design Handbook, the first comprehensive guide to building Web applications. This book tackles design problems faced by every Web development team with uncommon wisdom, clear prose, and detailed examples. Key topics include: modifying the browser interface to meet application security and efficiency requirements, searching, sorting, filtering, building efficient and usable data input mechanisms, generating reports, preventing errors, and using creative visualization techniques to optimize the display of large sets of data. This thorough work should be a primary reference for everyone designing Web applications.” --Chauncey E. Wilson, Principal HCI Architect, WilDesign Consulting“Every so often you run into a book and say to yourself: 'It's so obvious that this book should be read by every developer, so why wasn't it written years ago?' This is one of those books.” --Scott Ambler, author of The Object Primer: Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2“Web Application Design Handbook is beautifully produced with full-color screen shots on almost every page. The writing is clear and straightforward. The authors speak directly to their readers.” --Janice Redish - Technical Communication“Delivers a thorough examination of best practices and proven results for many different kinds of applications, including porting existing applications to the Internet from a PDA or Web-enabled cell phone, plus a quick reference for designers looking for fast solutions to enhance Web applications." --Paper Clips“Web Application Design Handbook is a panoramic book covering a lot of territory from how to design graphical user interfaces for Web applications to a discussion on the types of information visualization that are possible ... it provides a good overview on the techniques used to create Web applications, especially helpful for the novice Web designer who is tasked with building useful and effective Web applications ...” --Robbie T. Nakatsu, Department of Finance/Computer Information Systems, Loyola Marymount University

By Susan Fowler and Victor Stanwick

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781558607521
ISBN 10	1558607528
Title	Web Application Design Handbook
Author	Susan Fowler
Series	Interactive Technologies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elsevier Science & Technology
Year published	2004-07-21
Number of pages	688
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