- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Laurence King Publishing (3 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856692736
- ISBN-13: 978-1856692731
- Product Dimensions: 28 x 24.2 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,991,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Illustrating and explaining over 50 of the world's most innovatively designed websites, this book focuses on the debate that is currently raging over usability and considers the implications for the web designer. The sites are organized into sections that reflect users' motivations for visiting them. Each site is accompanied by a short review, and quotations from web designers around the world run throughout the book, providing an additional commentary on the sites and explaining why they are significant. There are also essays by Jakob Nielsen, Richard Buchanan and Geert Lovink. The book is accompanied by its own website, which extends the content and debate initiated in the book and provides a forum for discussion and innovation for the web design community.
About the Author
Patrick Burgoyne is editor of Creative Review magazine. He is the author of Bored: Surf/Skate/Snow Graphics and FC Football Graphics. Liz Faber is creative director of ECI Media. The former new media editor of Creative Review, her previous books include Re:play: Ultimate Games Graphics.
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A rather unsatisfying confection in the end for me (an internet marketer rather than creative/designer).
Might be brilliant for inspiring creatives but I doubt it and I'm just not sure a book is a great medium for showcasing websites these days..
The authors profile 50 websites from various categories. I could not discern what criteria were used for choosing the 50 but some are big and predictable (though one senses that mainstream sites like Amazon and eBay are only grudgingly included in the list) whilst the majority are slightly interesting and innovative but generally pretty marginal in impact (and certainly in relevance to online marketers if that's your area).
Definitely some minor interest and some nice screen shots (if that gets you going) but with the vast array of goodies on the web this was seriously disappointing, pretty much out of date as soon as published and definitely not worth a fraction of the £[...] I paid for it.
Definitely avoid if your interest is website design for the majority. Probably avoid if your interest is leading edge web design too (as it's poor value).
Might be brilliant for inspiring creatives but I doubt it and I'm just not sure a book is a great medium for showcasing websites these days..
The authors profile 50 websites from various categories. I could not discern what criteria were used for choosing the 50 but some are big and predictable (though one senses that mainstream sites like Amazon and eBay are only grudgingly included in the list) whilst the majority are slightly interesting and innovative but generally pretty marginal in impact (and certainly in relevance to online marketers if that's your area).
Definitely some minor interest and some nice screen shots (if that gets you going) but with the vast array of goodies on the web this was seriously disappointing, pretty much out of date as soon as published and definitely not worth a fraction of the £[...] I paid for it.
Definitely avoid if your interest is website design for the majority. Probably avoid if your interest is leading edge web design too (as it's poor value).
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