New Riders imprint: 313 books
Presentation Zen Design
Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Creating and delivering a successful presentation today often means breaking through the noise and allowing your audience to focus on you and your message. You can have a great impact using simple design choices in your presentations but you just need to know where to start. Here to guide you on your...
The Truthful Art
Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
No matter what your actual job title, you are—or soon will be—a data worker.
Every day, at work, home, and school, we are bombarded with vast amounts of free data collected and shared by everyone and everything from our co-workers to our calorie counters. In this highly anticipated follow-up...
by Jakob Nielsen, Kara Pernice
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Eyetracking Web Usability is based on one of the largest studies of eyetracking usability in existence. Best-selling author Jakob Nielsen and coauthor Kara Pernice used rigorous usability methodology and eyetracking technology to analyze 1.5 million instances where users look at Web sites to understand...
SocialCorp
Social Media Goes Corporate
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
This book will help companies of all sizes develop and implement a strategy to become a SocialCorp, a company that has adopted social media intelligently and effectively, in a way that does not compromise the company's primary obligations as a corporation. While the conversational and engagement values...
Free-to-Play
Making Money From Games You Give Away
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
*“ Will’s knowledge of F2P comes from years of building games, * *as well as writing about and consulting with developers on the * *model. All the topics covered in this book—economics, gameplay, monetization, * *analytics and marketing—are important to consider when you’re building *...
A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making
For user experience designers in the field or in the making
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application that’s easily navigated and meets the needs of the site owner and its users. There’s a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy,...
Designing the Obvious
A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Designing the Obvious belongs in the toolbox of every person charged with the design and development of Web-based software, from the CEO to the programming team. Designing the Obvious explores the character traits of great Web applications and uses them as guiding principles of application design so...
by Jay Maisel
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Jay Maisel, hailed as one of the most brilliant, gifted photographers of all time, is much more than that. He is a mentor, teacher, and trailblazer to many photographers, and a hero to those who feel Jay’s teaching has changed the way they see and create their own photography. He is a living legend...
Design Currency
Understand, define, and promote the value of your design work
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
The world needs beautiful design. But aesthetics are inherently subjective. In Design Currency, authors Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady show you how to frame the value of your design work in terms that your business partners will both understand and respect. An actionable resource, Design Currency empowers...
Implementing Responsive Design
Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
New devices and platforms emerge daily. Browsers iterate at a remarkable pace. Faced with this volatile landscape we can either struggle for control or we can embrace the inherent flexibility of the web. Responsive design is not just another technique–it is the beginning of the maturation...
Photographer's Guide to the Digital Lifecycle
Real-life workflow scenarios for managing still and motion photography assets
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Photographers, videographers, and other creative content makers are dealing with a new world of media that presents the challenge of managing all their raw and prepared data produced in the creative process. The framework for managing this data must go beyond Digital Asset Management (DAM) to the holistic...
Grouped
How small groups of friends are the key to influence on the social web
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The web is undergoing a fundamental change. It is moving away from its current structure of documents and pages linked together, and towards a new structure that is built around people. This is a profound change that will affect how we create business strategy, design, marketing, and advertising. The...
Modular Web Design
Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
User experience design teams often suffer from a decentralized, blank canvas approach to creating and documenting a design solution for each new project. As teams repeatedly reinvent screen designs, inconsistency results, and IT teams scramble to pick up the pieces. Pattern libraries only go so far,...
The User is Always Right
A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
How do we ensure that our Web sites actually give users what they need? What are the best ways to understand our users' goals, behaviors, and attitudes, and then turn that understanding into business results? Personas bring user research to life and make it actionable, ensuring we're making the right...