Best web design books
Best web design books to master your web design skills are included in this review. You can learn about web design principles, process, basics as well as advanced tips and tricks right from the experts. These web design books will also help you to spice up your imagination, better communicate ideas to clients, make your pages look beautiful, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time.
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Robin Williams Design Workshop, 2nd Edition
Robin William’s Design Workshop goes over the basics of graphic design: contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity, typography, and color theory. This book also covers many of the common graphic design projects: stationery design, flyer design, poster design, business card design, logo design, and form design. Because most of these projects translate to the web, everything in this book serves as a guide to graphic design best practices. This book uses good and bad examples to clearly illustrate design concepts. In general, it’s a solid graphic-design reference to come back to again and again.
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The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes
The Web Designer’s Idea Book includes more than 700 websites arranged thematically, so you can find inspiration for layout, color, style and more. Author Patrick McNeil has cataloged more than 20,000 sites on his website, and showcased in this book are the very best examples. Sites are organized by color, design style, type, theme, element and structure. It’s easy to use and reference again and again, whether you’re talking with a co-worker or discussing website design options with a client. As a handy desk reference for design layout, color and style, this book is a must-have for starting new projects.
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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is a simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples. This book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites. You’ll lern to understand the design process, from discovery to implementation what makes “good design”. This book will help you to develop pleasing layouts using grids, the rule of thirds, balance and symmetry, use color effectively, develop color schemes and create a palette, use textures, lines, points, shapes, volumes and depth as well as effective typography and imagery.
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Want to know how to make your pages look beautiful, communicate your message effectively, guide visitors through your website with ease, and get everything approved by the accessibility and usability police at the same time? Head First Web Design is your ticket to mastering all of these complex topics, and understanding what’s really going on in the world of web design. Whether you’re building a personal blog or a corporate website, there’s a lot more to web design than div’s and CSS selectors, but what do you really need to know? With this book, you’ll learn the secrets of designing effective, user-friendly sites, from customer requirements to hand-drawn storyboards all the way to finished HTML and CSS creations.
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Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain
For any designer or creative type who wants to quickly limber up their imagination on a daily basis, Caffeine for the Creative Mind helps readers get into the creative zone, from which all their best work springs. Packed with 15-minute simple and conceptual exercises, this guide will have readers reaching for markers, pencils, digital cameras, and more in order to develop a working and productive creative mindset. This book is chock-full of useful exercises designed to help readers tap into a daily creative buzz. It also features an edgy sketchbook design for visual allure.
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Layout Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Building Pages in Graphic Design
Layout Workbook is one of five volumes in Rockport’s series of practical and inspirational workbooks that cover the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. In this edition, author Kristin Cullen tackles the often perplexing job of nailing down a layout that works. More than a collection of great examples of layout, this book is an invaluable resource for students, designers, and creative professionals who seek design understanding and inspiration. The book illuminates the broad category of layout, communicating specifically what it takes to design with excellence. It also addresses the heart of design-the how and why of the creative process.
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The Unusually Useful Web Book is the only book you need to find out everything you need to know about web sites. In fact, it’s 2 books in 1. You can skim the sidebars and checklists for tips and techniques you can use right away. Or you can follow along with the main text for a detailed discussion of planning, designing, building, and maintaining your web site. The Unusually Useful Web Book is jam-packed with do-it-yourself worksheets, lessons from the trenches, advice from experts, and jargon-free explanations. For the novice, it’s an eye opener and the reader will probably be compelled to soak in all the material, cover to cover. For the professional, it’s a strong reinforcement of things we often overlook and a great reference tool.
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Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation
User experience design teams often suffer from a decentralized, blank canvas approach to creating and documenting a design solution for each new project. As teams repeatedly reinvent screen designs, inconsistency results, and IT teams scramble to pick up the pieces. Enter components, each of which represents a chunk of a Web page. Designers can produce wireframes, mockups, or markup far more efficiently reusing components based on an established design system. This book defines the role of components and why they matter, maps out how to organize and build a component library, discusses how to use components in practice, and teaches a process for documenting and maintaining components.
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Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (2nd Edition)
This brief but important book lays out a specific five-step strategy–called the Core Process–that can always be applied to the development of Web sites and fine-tuned to almost any type of project. Each step–defining the project, developing site structure, visual design and testing, production and QA, and launch and beyond–contains three related but distinct tracks. The text begins with a brief overview of each of the steps, then delves deeper into each with detailed explanations as well as specific forms and project-management strategies. This book does not cover back-end, server-side programming. Instead, it focuses primarily on the visual, conventional components of a Web site.
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The Non-Designer’s Design Book (3rd Edition)
So you have a great concept and all the fancy digital tools you could possibly require-what’s stopping you from creating beautiful pages? Namely the training to pull all of these elements together into a cohesive design that effectively communicates your message. Not to worry: This book is the one place you can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help. The Non-Designer’s Design Book explains the basic principles of good design and typography. All you have to do is follow the clearly explained concepts, and you’ll begin producing more sophisticated, professional, and interesting pages immediately. Humor-infused, jargon-free prose interspersed with design exercises, quizzes, illustrations, and dozens of examples make learning a snap.
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Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers. Here at last is a guide devoted to just that topic. Combining quick tips for improving deliverables with in-depth discussions of presentation and risk mitigation techniques, author shows you how to make the documentation you’re required to provide into the most efficient communications tool possible including usability reports, project plans, content maps, flow charts, wireframes, site maps, and more.
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The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)
The Design of Sites is the definitive reference for the principles, patterns, methodologies, and best practices underlying exceptional Web design. If you are involved in the creation of dynamic Web sites, this book will give you all the necessary tools and techniques to create effortless end-user Web experiences, improve customer satisfaction, and achieve a balanced approach to Web design. After a comprehensive tutorial covering the foundations of good Web site design, you will move on to discover the thirteen major Web design pattern groups. These patterns solve recurring design problems and help design teams avoid reinventing the wheel. Patterns range from creating a solid navigation framework and the all-important home page, to instilling trust and building credibility with your customers and improving site performance through better design.
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Developers don’t get to spend a lot of time thinking about design, but many secretly wish they knew how to make their applications look just a little bit better. This book takes you on a journey through a web site redesign, where you’ll learn the basic concepts of design, color theory, typography, and accessibility. You’ll learn how to take a sketch and transform it into a digital mockup in Photoshop, and then finally into a working web page. You’ll see how to develop logos, icons, and buttons using Illustrator and Photoshop, and then code a web page that will load fast, be easy to maintain, and most of all, be accessible to all audiences.
