5/01/2011

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems - free download ebook

Book Description
It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens.

In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own web site, application, or other product. (As he said in Don't Make Me Think, "It's not rocket surgery".)

In this new book, Steve explains how to:

  • Test any design, from a sketch on a napkin to a fully-functioning web site or application
  • Keep your focus on finding the most important problems (because no one has the time or resources to fix them all)
  • Fix the problems that you find, using his "The least you can do" approach

By paring the process of testing and fixing products down to its essentials (A morning a month, that's all we ask ), Rocket Surgery makes it realistic for teams to test early and often, catching problems while it's still easy to fix them. Rocket Surgery Made Easy adds demonstration videos to the proven mix of clear writing, before-and-after examples, witty illustrations, and practical advice that made Don't Make Me Think so popular.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 168 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders Press (March 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321657292
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321657299
  • File Size: 2.2 MiB
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Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light - Free Download ebook

Book Description
Light. It's the most transformative tool at any photographer's disposal. Whether the lens is turned to people, wildlife, or landscape, the creative use of light is often the difference between a snapshot and a powerful photograph. In Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light, renowned photographer, writer, and educator Ibarionex Perello shares his unique insights for partnering with natural light to create evocative digital images. He brings his palpable passion and personal approach rooted in decades of experience, and reveals his honed techniques for controlling focus, exposure, white balance, and sharpness to create beautiful and impactful photographs. In an industry so obsessed with gear, this book bridges the gap between the technical and the creative and returns to a personal, inspirational narrative about perceiving and photographing light.

This book will enlighten photographers of all levels about

  • the elements of exposure, metering, and ISO
  • light's impact on color and controlling color balance
  • combining brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, and pattern enhancing portraits with available lighting
  • direction and quality of sunlight and shooting in rural and urban landscapes

Book Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders Press (March 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780321752505
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321752505
  • File Size: 26.4 MiB
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4/28/2011

Cyber Security Essentials - Free Download ebook

Book Description
The sophisticated methods used in recent high-profile cyber incidents have driven many to need to understand how such security issues work. Demystifying the complexity often associated with information assurance, Cyber Security Essentials provides a clear understanding of the concepts behind prevalent threats, tactics, and procedures.

To accomplish this, the team of security professionals from VeriSign's iDefense® Security Intelligence Services supply an extensive review of the computer security landscape. Although the text is accessible to those new to cyber security, its comprehensive nature makes it ideal for experts who need to explain how computer security works to non-technical staff. Providing a fundamental understanding of the theory behind the key issues impacting cyber security, the book:

  • Covers attacker methods and motivations, exploitation trends, malicious code techniques, and the latest threat vectors
  • Addresses more than 75 key security concepts in a series of concise, well-illustrated summaries designed for most levels of technical understanding
  • Supplies actionable advice for the mitigation of threats
  • Breaks down the code used to write exploits into understandable diagrams

This book is not about the latest attack trends or botnets. It's about the reasons why these problems continue to plague us. By better understanding the logic presented in these pages, readers will be prepared to transition to a career in the growing field of cyber security and enable proactive responses to the threats and attacks on the horizon.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 341 pages
  • Publisher: Auerbach Publications (December 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9781439851234
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439851234
  • File Size: 5.6 MiB
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