We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and inefficient. This book combines real science and research with practical...

Adobe® Acrobat® X is an essential tool in today’s electronic workflow. As in earlier versions, you can use Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Pro to convert virtually any document to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), preserving the exact look and content of the original, complete with fonts and graphics. Additionally,...

Yippie! I am thrilled that you picked up this book because it’s loaded with 100 creative and innovative ideas to help jumpstart your creativity and teach you to do more with your designs and photographs, faster and better, with Photoshop. Aft er fl ipping through the pages, you’ll soon discover how valuable an addition this...

Don’t feel bad—I’ve given you an impossible exercise, but I promise the book will be filled with practical instead of ridiculous exercises from here on out. That’s because we’re going to...

Calling all developers: Windows Phone 7 is starting to gain...

Don’t be fooled. Although the .5 might give the impression that Dreamweaver CS5.5 is a point release, it’s anything but. Dreamweaver engineers have packed a stunning amount of new features into this version. To mention just a few, there’s code hinting for the popular jQuery JavaScript library, the ability to see what pages...

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It's an e-reader, it's a tablet, and it's hot! The NOOK Tablet offers all the advantages of an Android-based tablet, and this small-trim book is packed with information about how to use it. Learn to set up your NOOK Tablet, navigate the touchscreen, download...

• Get to grips with NGUI for both PC and mobile devices
• Create fully functional 2D and 3D cross-platform user interfaces
• A step-by-step guide, full of examples to...

• Explore the essentials of application development in Ext JS 5 and work on real-world web applications
• Discover the new features of Ext JS 5 such as MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) and data binding and...