Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation

Posted on 30 Oct 2009 - by admin In: Web Design

ISBN13: 9780321601353
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
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. Pattern libraries only go so far, suggesting general solutions to common problems instead of offering concrete, specific design treatments. At times, documented solutions turn into a costly mess of uncle… More >>
Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation

Tags: Components, creating, Design, Documentation, Experience, Modular, Reusable, User

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3 Responses to “Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation”

Midwest Book Review
October 30th, 2009 at 11:47 pm

User experience design teams often suffer from a broad approach to documenting a design solution for different projects. MODULAR WEB DESIGN: CREATING REUSABLE COMPONENTS FOR USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND DOCUMENTATION discusses components and how to use them based on an established design system, defining their role and discussing how to apply them to practices. Any library catering to neo-professional web designers will find this a key to understanding user interface components.
Rating: 5 / 5
Megan Ellinger
October 31st, 2009 at 12:42 am

Ever wondered if you are creating wireframes, comps, technical requirements, etc. as quickly as you could?
Looking for some tips that will take your design deliverables to the next level?
Have customers ever looked at your deliverables and said, “Huh? Where are you referring?”

Then Modular Web Design is worth buying and reading.

I confess that I can be a bit lazy. I’m also extremely swamped. I want to make engaging, easily understood deliverables as quickly as possible and this book has helped me review my current body of work and enhance it. It’s given me some new ways to think about how I create great deliverables and leverage existing work.
Rating: 4 / 5
Gócza Zoltán Károly
October 31st, 2009 at 1:16 am

Expect a very detailed and systematical book about how to think modular when designing for the web and how to create component-based designs, deliverables (wireframes, layouts, specs). The book is packed with practical tips on how to achieve modularity in common design tools (InDesign, Fireworks, Visio, etc. ).

What I liked about the book:
- It’s down to earth, very well structured.
- The fundamental approach is very inspiring: how to cut a design into pieces, document the pieces, search for reusable elements and define those as components.
- Examples and figures are abundant and illustrate the points very well.

What you should be aware of:
- If you’re mainly working for on small to mid-sized projects or you’re not really decided to go and start creating and sharing component libraries, the detailed process in the 2nd part of the book may be really overkill for you.

Rating: 4 / 5

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