New Riders imprint: 313 books
by Ernest Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the adventure game genre. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing for...
by Ernest Adams
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the construction and simulation game genre. This focused guide give you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of...
by Ernest Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the role-playing game genre. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing for...
The Web Writer's Toolkit
365 prompts, collaborative exercises, games, and challenges for effective online content
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
A recording of wind chimes. An item you cherish. Your childhood haunts. The pounding of a drum. Getting lost. As author Lynda Felder reveals in A Web Writer’s Toolkit, almost anything can serve as a point of inspiration for successful Web writing. Follow along with her 365 exercises—in order or...
by Ernest Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the vehicle simulation genre. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing...
Product Design for the Web
Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Web designers are no longer just web designers. To create a successful web product that’s as large as Etsy, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest–or even as small as a tiny app–you need to know more than just HTML and CSS. You need to understand how to create meaningful online experiences so that...
Dispatches from Blogistan
A travel guide for the modern blogger
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
The term "blog" wasn't coined until 1999 and yet by 2004, it had become Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Globally, the number of blogs is doubling every six months, with more than 50 million blogs online today. Here to offer a unique overview of the emerging phenomenon that even armchair observers...
VisionMongers
Making a Life and a Living in Photography
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
For those who want to make the transition into the world of vocational photography—staying true to your craft and vision, while fusing that craft with commerce VisionMongers is a great place to begin your journey. With a voice equally realistic and encouraging, photographer David duChemin discusses...
Visual Stories: Behind the Lens with Vincent Laforet
Behind the Lens with Vincent Laforet
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
There is an art to capturing a photo that tells a story. You need to know what belongs in the frame and what to leave out, what to emphasize in the photo that adds to the story, and how to use light, shape, and color all to express meaning while lending aesthetic value to the image itself. Vincent...
by Scott Kelby
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2001
Photo Retouching Secrets is not another color correction book, or scanning manual. It covers only one topic: retouching images to make them look better. What type of retouching are we talking about? Thing like: tricks for removing red eye and then recoloring the eye to its natural color tricks for removing...
Digital Product Management
Design websites and mobile apps that exceed expectations
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Product management improves the odds that your web sites and apps will be successful, and affirms the value that design brings to organizations and companies. App stores overflow with apps, and the Web seems to have more sites, content, and applications than people could possibly need. So...
Agile Experience Design
A Digital Designer's Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Agile development methodologies may have started life in IT, but their widespread and continuing adoption means there are many practitioners outside of IT--including designers--who need to change their thinking and adapt their practices. This is the missing book about agile that shows how designers,...
Building Findable Websites
Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
This is not another SEO book written for marketing professionals. Between these covers you’ll find practical advice and examples for people who build websites aiming to reach their target audience. Each chapter will introduce you to best practices and fresh perspectives on how to accomplish these...
by Ernest Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
You understand the basic concepts of game design: gameplay, user interfaces, core mechanics, character design, and storytelling. Now you want to know how to apply them to the action and arcade genre. This focused guide gives you exactly what you need. It walks you through the process of designing for...