Visual Usability

Principles and Practices for Designing Digital Applications

Tania Schlatter, Deborah Levinson (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

342 Seiten

2013
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In (Verlag)
978-0-12-398536-1 (ISBN)

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Deals with the nitty-gritty of applying visual design principles to complex application design. This title helps you learn how to avoid common mistakes, make informed decisions about application design, and elevate the ordinary.

Imagine how much easier creating web and mobile applications would be if you had a practical and concise, hands-on guide to visual design. Visual Usability gets into the nitty-gritty of applying visual design principles to complex application design.You’ll learn how to avoid common mistakes, make informed decisions about application design, and elevate the ordinary. We’ll review three key principles that affect application design – consistency, hierarchy, and personality – and illustrate how to apply tools like typography, color, and layout to digital application design. Whether you’re a UI professional looking to fine-tune your skills, a developer who cares about making applications beautiful and usable, or someone entirely new to the design arena, Visual Usability is your one-stop, practical guide to visual design.

Introduction Part 1 – The meta-principles 1. Consistency 2. Hierarchy 3. Personality Part II – The visual usability tools 4. Layout 5. Type 6. Color 7. Imagery 8. Controls and affordances Summary

Verlagsort	San Francisco
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	760 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Informatik ► Web / Internet ► Web Design / Usability
ISBN-10	0-12-398536-6 / 0123985366
ISBN-13	978-0-12-398536-1 / 9780123985361
Zustand	Neuware