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30%OFFDavid Kadavy - Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty - 9781119998952 - V9781119998952
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Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

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Description for Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty Paperback. Discover the techniques behind beautiful design?by deconstructing designs to understand them

The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work and how they can try to make them better. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps. BIC Classification: UGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 191 x 18. Weight in Grams: 814.
Discover the techniques behind beautiful design by deconstructing designs to understand them

The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work—and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels and explains the classical principles and techniques behind beautiful designs by deconstructing those designs in order to understand what makes them so remarkable. Author and designer David Kadavy provides you with the framework for understanding good design and places a special emphasis on interactive mediums. You'll explore color theory, the ... Read more

  • Breaks down and studies the classical principles and techniques behind the creation of beautiful design
  • Illustrates cultural and contextual considerations in communicating to a specific audience
  • Discusses why design is important, the purpose of design, the various constraints of design, and how today's fonts are designed with the screen in mind
  • Dissects the elements of color, size, scale, proportion, medium, and form
  • Features a unique range of examples, including the graffiti in the ancient city of Pompeii, the lack of the color black in Monet's art, the style and sleekness of the iPhone, and more

By the end of this book, you'll be able to apply the featured design principles to your own web designs, mobile apps, or other digital work.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781119998952
SKU
V9781119998952
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About David Kadavy
David Kadavy is a user interface designer whose clients include Silicon Valley startups such as oDesk, UserVoice, and PBworks. He led the design departments at two Silicon Valley startups and an architecture firm, taught a college course in typography, and studied ancient typography in Rome. David blogs about design at kadavy.net, and his Twitter handle is @kadavy.

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