books about: designing

books about: designing

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Designing

Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles

Ray Daniels

Brewers Publications, 2000

Excellent, Solid Resource
This book is an excellent, in-depth resource on the subject of homebrewing. It is an incredibly detailed and well-researched book, and doesn't shy away from simple math, as many others on the subject do. For those brewers that aren't as mathematically inclined, the ...

Simple Stunning Weddings: Designing and Creating Your Perfect Celebration

Karen Bussen

Harry N. Abrams, 2004

Gorgeous Visuals
Simple Stunning Weddings has beautiful visual images to get the gears turning towards planning a gorgeous event. The book didn't meet up to my expectations as far as being a guide for designing & creating the "perfect celebration", but I definitely appreciated the ...

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

A lifesaver
As project manager, I was in a bind when our contract information architect failed to understand the complexities of our matrixed business model and client base. Rosenfeld's book helped me design a IA for our 700 page HTML site that has since been described as simple, ...

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs (2nd Edition) (What Really ...

Richard L. Allington

Allyn & Bacon, 2005

Excellent, research-based, trustworthy.
Dr. Richard Allington continues to provide a research-based perspective that goes beyond the quick fixes, commercial-for-profit programs, and the political rhetoric of the day. If you really want to understand reading and learn a variety of research-based strategies ...

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

Jenifer Tidwell

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

More Practical Concepts, Less Psychology
While I don't own a physical copy of this book, I had used an electronic form of it in the course of my studies. I will first forewarn those who are interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that this text does not heavily focus on the science of Psychological ...

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer)

Chris Franchetti Michaels

Visual, 2007

Ideal teaching tool for the dedicated beader
If you want to get into beading & jewelry-making, Chris Franchetti Michaels's Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading is a fantastic place to start. It's a thick book loaded with photographs, and it tackles a comprehensive spread of topics. Thorough charts ...

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley ...

Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003

Excellent book for Software Architect and Software Engineer
Many books have been written about SOA, but most of them are just about the theory of SOA. It's important for Software Architects and Software Engineers to understand the theory, but just knowing the theory is not enough to develop system utilizing SOA principles. ...

Spaces & Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy

Debbie Diller

Stenhouse Publishers, 2008

A good resource!
This book is a great resource to help design an effective layout for a classroom. It takes all of the elements of the classroom into account: whole group, word study, readers' workshop areas and more! I also liked the spiral binding because it provided easy access to ...

Designing Interactions

Bill Moggridge

The MIT Press, 2007

Must read for any designer, IA, usability professional
Outstanding read about the history of how some of the things we use daily were conceptualized and designed. Moggridge interviews some of the coolest and relevant inventors of the modern (technology) era. The book hit a dry spell toward the end but finished ...

Designing Brand Identity: A Complete Guide to Creating, Building, and Maintaining Strong Brands

Alina Wheeler

Wiley, 2006

Very thorough with great examples
I used this book for a graphic design course that I'm taking and it was very informative as well as thorough. It was interesting to read about all of the brand identities and how logos really affect the way a company is viewed. I like the detail, the graphics and the ...

Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach

Steven R Cummings, Warren S Browner, ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

Very Good
This book was good for me, give you the best about clinical research from A to Z, very simple, up to the point

Designing for the Social Web (Voices That Matter)

Joshua Porter

New Riders Press, 2008

Great Resource for Those Defining the User Experience for Social Web Sites
This book teaches you how to think about designing web interfaces for social websites or websites with social features. You will learn a bit about the psychology behind what works well, so you can incorporate the knowledge into your own design. The book explains how ...

Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience

James Kalbach

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Your users will thank you for reading this...
The ability to navigate a web site can make or break your user's experience. I learned far more than I thought even existed in the book Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience by James Kalbach. It's obviously more than just putting a list of links ...

The Art of Turned Bowls: Designing Spectacular Bowls with a World-Class Turner

Richard Raffan

Taunton, 2008

A good outgrowth of his earlier book on design
If you have his earlier (now out of print) book on bowl design, this book is an outgrowth of that book. The first several chapters are just an expansion of that work, down to using some of the same photos and drawings. For people that don't have the first book, this ...

The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker: Shop Drawings and Professional Methods for Designing and Constructing ...

Robert W. Lang

Fox Chapel Publishing, 2006

An outstanding book
I have years of experience in residential carpentry and furnituremaking, and I've installed dozens of kitchens, but I had never actually made a set of kitchen cabinets. We are renovating our house, and replacing our cheap cabinets is one of the items on the list. I ...