Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work

摘要

Design is about synthesizing often conflicting requirements and giving form to that synthesis. As a Web designer, I would ideally spend most of my time identifying and synthesizing requirements, but we often spend the bulk of our project time redesigning common interface elements. Instead, Robert Hoekman and Jared Spool offer us frameworks as a way to "standardize the boring support functionality so that we can spend less time reinventing and more time inventing" (p. 6). Frameworks are sets of design patterns that collectively address the whole context of common Web design problems, such as sign-up, search, and checkout. Web Anatomy is a short, plain-spoken book that advocates reusability through frameworks composed of patterns and implemented with components. The authors' goal is to teach you how to think about, identify, and use frameworks on your own. As such, this book is not a catalog of frameworks. Rather, it's broken into three parts.