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Future Interaction Design
This book looks at emerging approaches with an emphasis on the social, cognitive, emotional, creative and active dimensions of the human actor.
October 13, 2011 - P. Saariluoma, H. Isomäki, A. Pirhonen, C. Roast 0

Designing Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Making the right architecture and implementation decisions (Patterns & Practices)
The book covers 4 core areas of architecture and development for SharePoint applications: execution models, data models, client application models, and application foundations.
October 13, 2011 - Todd Baginski, Robert Bogue, Chris Keyser, Jason Lee 0

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition)
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.
October 13, 2011 - Jesse James Garrett 0

Interactive Design Beyond the Desktop: User Experience Defined by Aesthetics
Designers must see that the user-experience will be created by the programmer whose ability and insight are central to communicate deeper meanings to a user.
October 12, 2011 - Drew Kinney 0

Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce
This book is valuable tool in helping you to understand the range of factors to take into consideration in designing and building a personalized user experience.
October 12, 2011 - John Karat, Jan O. Blom, Clare-Marie Karat 0

This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases
This book unveils the practical meaning behind terms in everyday use. The book introduces a new way of thinking to beginners but also serves as a reference for professionals.
October 12, 2011 - Jakob Schneider, Marc Stickdorn 0

Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design
In UX, stories help us understand users and their goals, explain research, and demonstrate design ideas. This book teachs how to craft and tell unique stories to improve designs.
October 12, 2011 - Kevin Brooks, Whitney Quesenbery 0

Professional Web Design: The Best of Smashing Magazine
This book covers professional Web design and the business side of Web development, teaching how to respond to design criticism, use storytelling, and apply color theory to design.
October 12, 2011 - Smashing Magazine 0

Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences
Versed in designing navigation, organization, and labelling, professionals are challenged on applying these techniques to information systems that cross communication channels linking digital to the physical world.
October 12, 2011 - Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini 0

User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams
This book speaks to the UX manager. It covers how to be an effective UX manager, from creating a team, to orchestrating product development, to ensuring UX is not compromised, to achieving company buy-in on results.
October 12, 2011 - Arnie Lund 0

Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences
This book takes a fresh approach to designing sites and interactions based on the stages of seduction. This beautifully designed book examines what motivates people to act.
October 12, 2011 - Stephen P. Anderson 0

SPEC Kit 322: Library User Experience
The purpose of this survey was to explore recent and planned user experience activities at ARL member libraries and the impact these efforts have on helping the libraries transform to meet evolving user needs.
October 12, 2011 - Ameet Doshi, Robert Fox 0

User Experience Design
User experience design (UXD) is a subset of the field of experience design that pertains to the creation of the architecture and interaction models that affect user experience of a device or system.
October 11, 2011 - Lambert M. Surhone, Susan F. Henssonow, Mariam T. Tennoe 0

Sensing Emotions: The impact of context on experience measurements
This book analyzes the influence of specific everyday situations and contexts on the emotional state of people and ways this will impact future user experience.
October 11, 2011 - Joyce Westerink, Martin Ouwerkerk, Martijn Krans 0

Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones: Programming for junaio, Layar and Wikitude
This book guides you through creating your own augmented reality apps for the iPhone, Android, Symbian, and bada platforms, featuring fully workable and downloadable source code.
October 11, 2011 - Lester Madden 0

Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps
This book provides the design strategy and tactics to integrate game mechanics into any kind of consumer-facing website or mobile app.
October 11, 2011 - Christopher Cunningham, Gabe Zicherman 0

Multi-objective Design Space Exploration of Multiprocessor SoC Architectures: The MULTICUBE Approach
This book serves as a reference for researchers and designers in Embedded Systems who need to explore design alternatives. 
October 11, 2011 - Eugenio Villar, William Fornaciari, Cristina Silvano 0

Distinctive Design: A Practical Guide to a Useful, Beautiful Web
Learn to produce a web site that stands out from the crowd. This book examines the bond between code, content and visuals to guide you through the factors that increase your design's visibility, usability and beauty.
October 11, 2011 - Alexander Dawson 0

Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript

This hands-on guide shows you how to design and build one of these games from start to finish, with nothing but open source tools.
October 11, 2011 - Mario Andres Pagella 0

Social Network Design
In CIOs at Work, noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the world's most influential chief information officers.
October 10, 2011 - Ed Yourdon 0

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