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| Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design | 
| Author: Jenifer Tidwell
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (47 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4349
Format: Illustrated
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0596008031
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.437
EAN: 9780596008031
ASIN: 0596008031
Publication Date: November 21, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Intelligent and Invaluable April 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jenifer Tidwell's pattern based approach is amazingly good! She carefully organizes and enumerates a wide variety of effective user interface options for both small screen (ie: Blackberry, cell phones) and larger screen forms. I am not an expert in UI design by any means (I have read Donald Norman, Tagnazzini, Shneiderman and Mayhew but I have no background in graphic design), but I do project reviews and this book has given me some insight into problems and potential fixes in a few areas. I was also able to pick up on a couple of "hidden" features in some of the software tools that I do use and to label and critique several "features" that weren't working well.
The style is easy to read. Tidwell explains, illustrates and covers the merits of each user interface. The research is solid. For example she notes that the Fisheye menu, while slightly favored by programmers and experienced users is considered confusing by and less effective for casual users and recommends a hierarchical approach.
I recommend this book for corporate libraries and as a reference for individuals and groups working on what might become overly complicated design.
nice and comprehensive writing March 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
the book covers all the major issues of its title.
it does not however gives you solutions for unique cases - those you have to think of by yourself. very "to the point" writing.
a bit puzzling the choice to write some of the examples as if the general user is a woman.
all in all , a much recommended title.
 Good but not user-friendly June 15, 2007
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book does to UI design what the well-known "Design Patterns" did for software design. Many readers, specially those experienced in graphical and UI design will find much of the content familiar, when not trivial, but the purpose of a "pattern language" book is not to break new ground but to formalize and explain a well known language.
The book is beautifully laid out and illustrated. The amount of theory preceding each group of patterns seems right on the mark.
Why the low star rating?
The book's binding broke before I finished reading it, something that's completely not user-friendly. If you're not in a hurry I'd wait for a second edition that fixes the problem.
A good reference and prefab pattern library. April 29, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I found this a bit shallow as a read-through textbook or handbook, but it should make a very useful reference and may serve well as a prefab pattern library. I think it will serve best for those working on web sites and web apps, though it also covers desktop apps.
 Designing Interfaces April 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Designing Interfaces is a great book to get you started on the subject, wether you are a designer or a developer, this books will show you how important is to *design* you application.
Concepts are presented as design patterns and they are intended to help you resovle real world problems, some knowledge of UI design is recommended but every patten is described and explained very well, the use of the "Use When", "Why" and "How To" sections will give you al the information you need to know to make a decision on the use of any specific solution.
From web forms to destop application, this books will show you the right way to make the user's interaction experience as simple and intuitive as possible.
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