The Web is increasingly happening in realtime. With websites such as Facebook and Twitter leading the way, users are coming to expect that all sites should serve content as it occurs — on smartphones as well as computers. This book shows you how to build realtime user experiences by adding chat, streaming content, and including more features on your site one piece at a time, without making big changes to the existing infrastructure. You’ll also learn how to serve realtime content beyond the browser.

The ActionBar incorporates a variety of previously disparate user interaction concepts into a single control. The ActionBar provides one-stop shopping for menu management, home and back behavior, tabbed displays, screen layout adaptability, and many more user interaction concepts. In this course we look at how to provide a rich user experience by taking full advantage of the ActionBar in your apps.

We're in a new era of software and devices, and user expectations are rising rapidly. To meet those expectations, developers need to understand more about design concepts. Whether working alone, or with a designer, this course will help by explaining fundamental principles, concepts, and terminology, and by exposing developers to a broad range of design possibilities.

Discover how to create a user experience that embodies utility, ease of use, and efficiency by identifying what people want from websites, how they search for information, and how to structure your content to take advantage of this. In this course, author Chris Nodder shows how to merge engineering, marketing, graphical and industrial design, and interface design to create a website that meets the needs of your customer, and is simple, elegant, and engaging. The course shows how to use graphics to help rather than hinder visitors, balance advertising and content, and integrate video, audio, and other media. Other tutorials consider the landing page experience and elements like contact forms from the visitor's perspective.

We all tell stories. It’s one of the most natural ways to share information, as old as the human race. This book is not about a new technique, but how to use something we already know in a new way. Stories help us gather and communicate user research, put a human face on analytic data, communicate design ideas, encourage collaboration and innovation, and create a sense of shared history and purpose.

The Independent Guide to the iPhone not only reveals the easy way to use your iPhone's operating system, but provides details on how to optimise your phone’s great new special features, applications and multi-media add-ons. Essentially, this is the user guide Apple forgot to include with the iPhone!

There are over 30,000 applications for Android that have been downloaded over a million times already. What makes yours any different? Building a compelling user-interface that people understand and enjoy is vital for the survival of a new application in an environment where look and feel may be the only thing between a user purchasing your application; or deleting it forever.

From the moment it was published almost ten years ago, Elements of User Experience became a vital reference for web and interaction designers the world over, and has come to define the core principles of the practice. Now, in this updated, expanded, and full-color new edition, Jesse James Garrett has refined his thinking about the Web, going beyond the desktop to include information that also applies to the sudden proliferation of mobile devices and applications.

iPad & iPhone User covers the best apps, the latest kit and the hottest gadgets. Each issue features extensive reviews, news and opinions on the latest iPad and iPhone products, as well as step-by-step guides and tutorials on how to get the most from your Apple gadgets and the App Store.

iPad & iPhone User covers the best apps, the latest kit and the hottest gadgets. Each issue features extensive reviews, news and opinions on the latest iPad and iPhone products, as well as step-by-step guides and tutorials on how to get the most from your Apple gadgets and the App Store.