Designing Web Interfaces

by Scott, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780596516253
• ISBN10: 0596516258
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-31
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. With an entire section devoted to each design principle,Designing Web Interfaceshelps you: Make It Direct-Edit content in context with design patterns for In Page Editing, Drag & Drop, and Direct Selection Keep It Lightweight-Reduce the effort required to interact with a site by using In Context Tools to leave a "light footprint" Stay on the Page-Keep visitors on a page with overlays, inlays, dynamic content, and in-page flow patterns Provide an Invitation-Help visitors discover site features with invitations that cue them to the next level of interaction Use Transitions-Learn when, why, and how to use animations, cinematic effects, and other transitions React Immediately-Provide a rich experience by using lively responses such as Live Search, Live Suggest, Live Previews, and moreDesigning Web Interfacesillustrates many patterns with examples from working websites. If you need to build or renovate a website to be truly interactive, this book gives you the principles for success.

Author Biography

Bill Scott is director of UI Engineering at Netflix in Los Gatos, CA, where he plies his interface engineering and design skills. Scott is the former Yahoo! Ajax evangelist and pattern curator for the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.

He has a long and glamorous history in the IT world, due mostly to his unique understanding of both the technical and creative aspects of designing usable products. His ramblings and musings can be found at http://www.looksgoodworkswell.com.

Theresa Neil is a user experience consultant in Austin, Texas, where she designs rich applications for start-ups and Fortune500 companies. Her work can be seen at http://www.designgenie.org.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Make It Direct

In-Page Editing

Drag and Drop

Direct Selection

Keep It Lightweight

Contextual Tools

Stay on the Page

Overlays

Inlays

Virtual Pages

Process Flow

Provide an Invitation

Static Invitations

Dynamic Invitations

Use Transitions

Transitional Patterns

Purpose of Transitions

React Immediately

Lookup Patterns

Feedback Patterns

Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction

Colophon

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