5/01/2011

Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences - free ebook download

Book Description
As physical and digital interactions intertwine, new challenges for digital product designers and developers, as well as, industrial designers and architects are materializing. While well versed in designing navigation, organization, and labelling of websites and software, professionals are faced the crucial challenge of how to apply these techniques to information systems that cross communication channels that link the digital world to the physical world.

Pervasive Information Architecture provides examples showing why and how one would:

  • Model and shape information to adapt itself to users' needs, goals, and seeking strategies
  • Reduce disorientation and increase legibility and way-finding in digital and physical spaces
  • Alleviate the frustration associated with choosing from an ever-growing set of information, services, and goods
  • Suggest relevant connections between pieces of information, services and goods to help users achieve their goals.
  • Master agile information structures while meeting the unique user needs on such devices as smart phones, GPS systems, and tablets
  • Find out the 'why' and 'how' of pervasive information architecture (IA) through detailed examples and real-world stories
  • Learn about trade-offs that can be made and techniques for even the most unique design challenges

Book Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (April 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123820944
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123820945
  • File Size: 11.2 MiB
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Data Architecture: From Zen to Reality - free download ebook

Book Description
Data is an expensive and expansive asset. Information capture has forced storage capacity from megabytes to terabytes, exabytes and, pretty soon, zetabytes of data. So the need for accessible storage space for this data is great. To make this huge amount of data usable and relevant, it needs to be organized effectively. Database Base Management Systems, such as Oracle, IBM's DB2, and Microsoft SqlServer are used often, but these are being enhanced continuously and auxiliary tools are being developed every week; there needs to be a fundamental starting point for it all. That stating point is Data Architecture, the blueprint for organizing and structuring of information for services, service providers, and the consumers of that data.

Data Architecture: From Zen to Reality explains the principles underlying data architecture, how data evolves with organizations, and the challenges organizations face in structuring and managing their data. It also discusses proven methods and technologies to solve the complex issues dealing with data. The book uses a holistic approach to the field of data architecture by covering the various applied areas of data, including data modelling and data model management, data quality , data governance, enterprise information management, database design, data warehousing, and warehouse design. This book is a core resource for anyone emplacing, customizing or aligning data management systems, taking the Zen-like idea of data architecture to an attainable reality.

  • Presents fundamental concepts of enterprise architecture with definitions and real-world applications and scenarios
  • Teaches data managers and planners about the challenges of building a data architecture roadmap, structuring the right team, and building a long term set of solutions
  • Includes the detail needed to illustrate how the fundamental principles are used in current business practice

Book Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (April 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123851262
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123851260
  • File Size: 4.8 MiB
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Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture - free download ebook

Book Description
Touch and gestural devices have been hailed as next evolutionary step in human-computer interaction. As software companies struggle to catch up with one another in terms of developing the next great touch-based interface, designers are charged with the daunting task of keeping up with the advances in new technology and this new aspect to user experience design.

Product and interaction designers, developers and managers are already well versed in UI design, but touch-based interfaces have added a new level of complexity. They need quick references and real-world examples in order to make informed decisions when designing for these particular interfaces. Brave NUI World is the first practical book for product and interaction developers and designing touch and gesture interfaces. Written by developers of industry-first, multi-touch, multi-user products, this book gives you the necessary tools and information to integrate touch and gesture practices into your daily work, presenting scenarios, problem solving, metaphors, and techniques intended to avoid making mistakes.

  • Provides easy-to-apply design guidance for the unique challenge of creating touch- and gesture-based user interfaces
  • Considers diverse user needs and context, real world successes and failures, and a look into the future of NUI
  • Presents thirty scenarios, giving practitioners a multitude of considerations for making informed design decisions and helping to ensure that missteps are never made again

Book Details

  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (April 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123822319
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123822314
  • File Size: 3.1 MiB
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