By
Susan Fowler, Fast Consulting, Staten Island, NY, U.S.A.
Victor Stanwick, Fast Consulting, Staten Island, NY, U.S.A.
Description
"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 arcana. If 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
The standards for usability and interaction design for Web sites and software are
well known. While not everyone uses those standards, or uses them correctly, there is a large body of knowledge, best practice, and proven
results in those fields, and a good education system for teaching professionals "how to." For the newer field of Web application design,
however, designers are forced to reuse the old rules on a new platform. This book provides a roadmap that will allow readers to put complete
working applications on the Web, display the results of a process that is running elsewhere, and update a database on a remote server
using an Internet rather than a network connection.
Web Application Design Handbook describes the essential widgets and development
tools that will the lead to the right design solutions for your Web application. Written by designers who have made significant contributions
to Web-based application design, it delivers a thorough treatment of the subject for many different kinds of applications, and provides
quick reference for designers looking for some fast design solutions and opportunities to enhance the Web application experience. This
book adds flavor to the standard Web design genre by juxtaposing 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.
Included in series
Interactive Technologies
Audience:
Interaction Designers working on new web-based applications or porting existing applications to the internet.
