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...
CSS has become so phenomenally successful—almost as successful as HTML itself—that it is sometimes hard to grasp. It’s everywhere now, from Web browsers to app stores to chat clients, and it doesn’t show any signs of fading away. As the language’s use continues to spread, its capabilities continue to advance.
The Galaxy Tab hit the market with a bang! It’s the first 7-inch tablet to
become available with the Android operating system (and a 10-inch version
is just on the horizon), a popular open source OS that is extremely
versatile, stable, and feature packed. Add in the ability for third-party software
developers to create new...
With this book you'll have fun exploring the graphical and animation side of the Flex 4 SDK. There are other books out there on Flex, on Flex 4, and on RIA technologies in general, but they generally don't cover the techniques that help you write cooler applications. This book is specifically about the graphical and animation...
Welcome to Learn HTML and CSS with w3schools. This book is for Web users learning
to create their own Web pages using HTML, the standard tagging language for
the World Wide Web.
w3schools (www.w3schools.com) is one of the top Web destinations to learn HMTL and
many other key Web languages. w3schools’ tutorials are...
Digital Design for Print and Web: An Introduction to Theory, Principles, and Techniques was written to help people succeed with digital design. It is a learning product that incorporates both video lessons and an in-depth textbook written from two perspectives—that of a student, and that of a teacher.
With more than 500 million active users around the world and still growing steadily, Facebook is more than just another social media site. In the words of author Dave Awl, Facebook is “the new town square”—the place where people gather to discuss the news of the day as well as share what’s going on in their lives. And...
We were early adopters of Extreme Programming (XP), testing on XP teams
that weren’t at all sure where testers or their brand of testing fit in. At the time,
there wasn’t much in the agile (which wasn’t called agile yet) literature about
acceptance testing, or how professional testers might contribute. We learned
not...
This is one book where, in fact, we do wish to compare apples to oranges. As often as possible,
we describe an Avid function and then describe the equivalent Final Cut Pro function
and how to access and apply it. In addition, the book offers images of Avid screens,
buttons, and icons so you can get your bearings...
Welcome to Android Application Development For Dummies, the first For
Dummies book that covers Android application development. When
I was contacted to write this book, I was ecstatic about the opportunity to
spread the wealth of knowledge that I’d picked up over the past year and a
half of Android development. I hope you enjoy...
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,...
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies...
