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    Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software
    Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software
    Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software
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    Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software

    By Susan Fowler and Victor Stanwick

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    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.

    * The first interaction design book that focuses exclusively on Web applications.* Full-color figures throughout the book.* Serves as a "cheat sheet" or "fake book" for designers: a handy reference for standards, rules of thumb, and tricks of the trade.* Applicable to new Web-based applications and for porting existing desktop applications to Web browsers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateJul 21, 2004
    ISBN9780080481708
    Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software
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    Susan Fowler

    Susan Fowler is one of the world's foremost experts on personal empowerment and has spoken on the subject in all fifty of the United States and more than twenty foreign countries. With Ken Blanchard and Laurence Hawkins she created -- and is the lead developer of -- Situational Self Leadership;®, which focuses on empowerment and taking the initiative when you're not in charge. She is an adjunct professor for the University of San Diego's masters of science in executive leadership program.

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      Weighing in at over 650 pages, this book presents a very thorough look at application design. It serves as a good reference source for anyone developing web applications. It describes how web applications are different than web sites, but in doing so relies on references to desktop application perhaps too often.

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