Category Archives: Book

Designing interfaces and UI patterns

Posted on Wednesday 20 February 2008 by

A couple of resources I’ve been enjoying recently: Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell UI Patterns and Techniques website As they say: no need to reinvent the wheel!

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Mobile Web Design book

Posted on Sunday 17 February 2008 by

One thing that I’d like to explore more is delivering Web content to mobile Web-enabled devices, such as my Mobile Windows-loaded phone.  This book Mobile Web Design by Cameron Moll might just help. Here’s the blurb from the site: A … Continue reading →

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Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web

Posted on Saturday 16 February 2008 by

Interesting-looking book on tagging published last month: Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web by Gene Smith (New Riders, January 2008). Synopsis Tagging is fast becoming one of the primary ways people organize and manage digital information. Tagging complements traditional … Continue reading →

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Transcending CSS

Posted on Sunday 6 January 2008 by

A review by Gareth J M Saunders Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design by Andy Clarke is one of the best books about cascading style sheets (CSS) that I’ve read in a long time. As a designer Andy … Continue reading →

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Learning jQuery

Posted on Saturday 29 December 2007 by

Did you get anything exciting and geeky for Christmas? I got a copy of Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg (Packt Publishing, 2007). jQuery is an open-source JavaScript … Continue reading →

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Getting Real, book by 37signals

Posted on Monday 24 September 2007 by

I’ve just finished reading Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application by 37signals (the folks behind Ruby on Rails). Getting Real is the business, design, programming, and marketing philosophies of 37signals — a developer … Continue reading →

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