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Best Practices for Web-Based Software
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By
Susan Fowler, Fast Consulting, Staten Island, NY, U.S.A.
Victor Stanwick, Fast Consulting, Staten Island, NY, U.S.A.
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Interactive Technologies,
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.
Audience
Interaction Designers working on new web-based applications or porting existing applications to the internet.
Contents
Contents
Chapter 1: What is a Web Application?
Chapter 2: The Browser Framework
Chapter 3: Data Input
Chapter 4: Data Retrieval: Search
Chapter 5: Data Retrieval: Filtering and Browsing
Chapter 6: Data Output: Reports
Chapter 7: Data Output: Printed Forms
Chapter 8: Interacting
with Output
Chapter 9: Designing Graphs And Charts
Chapter 10: Graph Types Based on Use
Chapter 11: Designing Diagrams
Chapter 12: Diagram
Types
Chapter 13: Designing Geographic Maps
Chapter 14: Interacting with Geographic Maps
Chapter 15: Types of Maps
Appendix A: Web Application
Design Worksheets
Appendix B: Quality Testing
Appendix C: Usability Testing
Appendix D: Design Checklists
Glossary
References
For Further
Reading
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 658 pages, publication date: JUN-2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-752-1
ISBN-10: 1-55860-752-8
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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