This text offers advice on creating user-friendly interface designs - whether they're delivered on the Web, a CD, or a 'smart' device like a cell phone. It presents solutions to common UI design problems as a collection of patterns - each containing concrete examples, recommendations, and warnings

• What users do. A means to an end
• The basics of user research
• User's motivation to learn
• The patterns
• Organizing the content : information architecture and application structure. The big picture
• The patterns
• Getting around : navigation, signposts, and wayfinding. Staying found
• The cost of navigation
• Navigational models
• Design conventions for websites
• The patterns
• Organizing the page : layout of page elements. the basics of page layout
• The patterns
• List of things. Use cases for lists
• Back to information architecture
• Some solutions
• The Patterns
• Doing things : actions and commands. Pushing the boundaries
• The patterns
• Showing complex data : trees, charts, and other information graphics. The basics of information graphics
• The patterns
• Getting input from users : forms and controls. The basics of form design
• Control choice
• The patterns
• Using social media. What this chapter does not cover
• The basics of social media
• The patterns
• Going mobile. The challenges of mobile design
• The patterns
• Making it look good : visual style and aesthetics. Same content, different style
• The basics of visual design
• What this means for desktop applications
• The patterns