Donald Norman's best-selling plea for user-friendly design, with more than 175,000 copies sold to date, is now a Basic paperback. First, businesses discovered quality as a key competitive edge; next came service. Now, Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how smart design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how--and why--some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.

《版面设计网格构成》中的网格构成是现在版面设计最重要的基础修养之一。作为一种行之有效的版面设计形式法则，它将构成主义和秩序的概念引入到设计之中，使得所有的设计元素：字休、图片以及点、线、面之间的协调一致成为可能。 网格构成设计特别强调比例感、秩序感、整体感、时代感和严密感，创造了一种简洁、朴实的版面艺术表现风格，曾对西文现代平面设计产生过广泛影响。随着版面设计的电脑化进程，网格构成设计越来越受到设计界的重视，已成为艺术院校平面设计的必修教程。

关于此书：　　从甜美的、柔软的、透气的凝胶体，到发光的塑料材料，以及能自行组装的性能，此书都将带你领略塑料的迷人美丽。这里没有长篇大论，只是列举了77种现代产品与塑料材料，让你一饱眼福。此书不光提留于产品或材料的表明，而是展现出塑料的潜在特性，并对现在和未来的一些日用材料进行探究。这里有当代工业设计大师的设计作品，也有诸如塑料软木塞或自行车座垫等实用产品，我们在内容与来源上的选择可谓琳琅满目。　　内容：　　77种塑料产品与材料的有趣面貌；　　制造商、供应商、设计师与学院的实用网址；　　塑料的物理与化学特性；　　每种材料的技术特性；　　部分塑料特性：　　在精确的时间段中得到降解；　　能变为铅笔的聚苯乙烯杯；　　能在黑夜中发光的塑料；　　美国银行票据回收后制成的塑料；　　导电塑料板；　　融合真丝的塑料。

Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject. Now Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Don’t Make Me Think a classic–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usability. And it’s still short, profusely illustrated…and best of all–fun to read. If you’ve read it before, you’ll rediscover what made Don’t Make Me Think so essential to Web designers and developers around the world. If you’ve never read it, you’ll see why so many people have said it should be required reading for anyone working on Web sites. “After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book.” –Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards

本书是一本经典著作，由众多卓越的软件和设计专业人员的论文及访谈录组成。本书的作者从不同角度，通过大量生动的实例，说明了什么是设计，给出了所有设计领域中共同的核心实践，展示了软件构建者如何运用这些实践产生用户更满意的软件。 本书并没有很明确地提出解决软件设计问题的方法，而是引导读者站在不同的角度，在更高的层次上，对这些问题进行换位思考和更深入的分析，得出自己的结论，相信会对软件设计人员、项目经理、产品经理、系统分析员等相关人员有很大帮助。对于在校的学生来说，本书也是一本启发思路、拓展视野的好书。

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完善细致的平面设计指导课程，有20年实践经验的资深设计师编写。重新修订并增补了计算机辅助设计和各种商业设计领域应用软件的使用。对杂志、书籍、包装、广告和企业设计给予实际的指导。为设计者创作专业作品提供特别技巧。从学生独立完成项目到实际问题的解决方案，全彩图例说明。

包豪斯（Bauhaus）是一所德国的艺术和建筑学校，讲授并发展设计教育，1919年创立于德国魏玛。 由于包豪斯对于现代建筑学的深远影响，今日的包豪斯早已不单是指学校，而是其倡导的建筑流派或风格的统称，即注重建筑造型与实用机能合而为一。包豪斯的当代设计，对现代而言，更加具有突破性和代表性。 著名设计师、插画师威廉·斯莫克阐述了包豪斯的设计主义如何对当代艺术，不论在建筑设计、平面设计方面，还是在工业设计、现代美术方面所造成的影响。本书不但保留了当代设计的原始风貌（手绘插图），更像是一本手册指南。不论是建筑设计、室内设计，还是生活用品设计，包含家具、玻璃手工艺品、餐具设计等等，从中随处可见包豪斯的理念。 包豪斯的的确确重新定义了什么是“设计”。 目录 引言 再版引言 第一部分 包豪斯曾代表了什么 一 包豪斯是什么 二 包豪斯的遗产是现代设计吗 三 包豪斯之前的时代 四 现代设计如何改变了这个世界 五 现代艺术和包豪斯有什么关系 六 从何时起现代艺术失去了新意 七 什么取代了包豪斯 八 接下来是什么 第二部分 包豪斯是正确的吗 一 视觉语言 二 玻璃 三 功能主义 少即是多 作为模型的机器 大量建造的房屋 流线型 人类工程学 四 社会工程 城市规划 大众之车 创造力崇拜 第三部分 包豪斯理想里还有生命力吗 一 隐喻的复兴 二 向过去学习 三 不要给工程师太多赞誉 四 解决问题并非唯一的设计策略 五 不要抛弃设计的梦想 注解书目

This text identifies, examines, and illustrates fundamental concepts in computer system design that are common across operating systems, networks, database systems, distributed systems, programming languages, software engineering, security, fault tolerance, and architecture. Through carefully analyzed case studies from each of these disciplines, it demonstrates how to apply these concepts to tackle practical system design problems. To support the focus on design, the text identifies and explains abstractions that have proven successful in practice such as, remote procedure call, client/service organization, file systems, data integrity, consistency, and authenticated messages. Most computer systems are built using a handful of such abstractions. The text describes how these abstractions are implemented, demonstrates how they are used in different systems, and prepares the reader to apply them in future designs. Features: Concepts of computer system design guided by fundamental principles. Cross-cutting approach that identifies abstractions common to networking, operating systems, transaction systems, distributed systems, architecture, and software engineering. Case studies that make the abstractions real: naming (DNS and the URL); file systems (the UNIX file system); clients and services (NFS); virtualization (virtual machines); scheduling (disk arms); security (TLS). Numerous pseudocode fragments that provide concrete examples of abstract concepts. Extensive support. The authors and MIT OpenCourseWare provide on-line, free of charge, open educational resources, including additional chapters, course syllabi, board layouts and slides, lecture videos, and an archive of lecture schedules, class assignments, and design projects.

To achieve success in today's ever-changing and unpredictable markets, competitive businesses need to rethink and reframe their strategies across the board. Instead of approaching new product development from the inside out, companies have to begin by looking at the process from the outside in, beginning with the customer experience. It's a new way of thinking-and working-that can transform companies struggling to adapt to today's environment into innovative, agile, and commercially successful organizations.Companies must develop a new set of organizational competencies: qualitative customer research to better understand customer behaviors and motivations; an open design process to reframe possibilities and translate new ideas into great customer experiences; and agile technological implementation to quickly prototype ideas, getting them from the whiteboard out into the world where people can respond to them. In "Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for an Uncertain World", Adaptive Path, a leading experience strategy and design company, demonstrates how successful businesses can - and should - use customer experiences to inform and shape the product development process, from start to finish.

Your web site is a business--design it like one. Billions of dollars in spending decisions are influenced by web sites. So why aren't businesses laser-focused on designing their sites to maximize their Return on Investment (ROI)? Web design can do more than make a site look good--it can be a powerful strategic weapon that enhances financial returns and creates competitive advantage. It's time to make web sites accountable. It's time to make design decisions based on metrics and business goals. It's time for Web Design for ROI. In this book you'll learn: * Why so many organizations think about web design the wrong way* How small design changes can have a big impact on your bottom line* Simple tips to increase web sales/leads by 10% -- 50% (or more)* Concrete design guidelines for: * Landing pages * Home pages * Category pages * Detail pages * Forms * Checkout processesPacked with helpful examples from a wide variety of sites!

For readers who want to design Web pages that load quickly, are easy to update, accessible to all, work on all browsers and can be quickly adapted to different media, this comprehensive guide represents the best way to go about it. By focusing on the ways the two languages--XHTML and CSS--complement each other, Web design pro Patrick Griffiths provides the fastest, most efficient way of accomplishing specific Web design tasks. With Web standards best practices at its heart, it outlines how to do things the right way from the outset, resulting in highly optimized web pages, in a quicker, easier, less painful way than users could hope for! Split into 10 easy-to-follow chapters such as Text, Images, Layout, Lists, and Forms, and coupled with handy quick-reference XHTML tag and CSS property appendixes, HTML Dog is the perfect guide and companion for anyone wanting to master these languages. Readers can also see the lessons in action with more than 70 online examples constructed especially for the book.

In this unique work, leading computer scientists discuss how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to difficult problems. This book lets the reader look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts to see problems through their eyes.

就是爱住Design Hotel，连睡觉梦醒都怀有礼觉愉悅！香港Jia Hotel，Philippe Starck从床头板到大厅设计一手包办所有设计！ 马德里的Hotel Puerta America 找来19位建筑大师包括Zaha Hadid、Norman Foster X 13层楼，一人一层 = 19种风格；丹麦Hotel Fox让21位全球最顶尖的平面设计师、插画家、艺术家，毫无主题限制地进行油漆创作，61个房间的独立视觉体验，设计感是挑剔旅人的座右銘， 橫跨五大洲的50家新设计旅店，超过100种以上的风格体验！享乐不忘知性，奢华一样有理！建筑、室內、氛围、服务、深入旅人五感的设计旅店，与设计大师的近距离接触，延迟享乐还是当下享乐？50种设计旅行、100种以上生活风格，当然是行李一背、随时体验！

Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you picked up "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML" and really learned HTML. You want to learn HTML so you can finally create those Web pages you've always wanted, so you can communicate more effectively with friends, family, fans and fanatic customers. You also want to do it right so you can actually maintain and expand your Web pages over time, and so your Web pages work in all the browsers and mobile devices out there. Oh, and if you've never heard of CSS, that's okay - we won't tell anyone you're still partying like it's 1999 - but if you're going to create Web pages in the 21st century then you'll want to know and understand CSS. Learn the real secrets of creating Web pages, and why everything your boss told you about HTML tables is probably wrong (and what to do instead). Most importantly, hold your own with your co-worker (and impress cocktail party guests) when he casually mentions how his HTML is now strict, and his CSS is in an external style sheet. With "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML", you'll avoid the embarrassment of thinking Web-safe colors still matter, and the foolishness of slipping a font tag into your pages. Best of all, you'll learn HTML and CSS in a way that won't put you to sleep. If you've read a "Head First" book, you know what to expect: a visually-rich format designed for the way your brain works. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, this book will load HTML, CSS, and XHTML into your brain in a way that sticks. So what are you waiting for? Leave those other dusty books behind and come join us in Webville. Your tour is about to begin.

在线阅读本书 A New York Times bestseller with over 175,000 copies sold, the ABSOLUT BOOK is as good as the vodka it promotes. Richard Lewis takes readers behind the scenes to cover the birth and growth of this award-winning advertising campaign, and provides the definitive illustrated history of one of the most successful advertising promotions ever seen. This collector's delight will appeal to designers, art lovers, vodka drinkers and anyone with good taste.