O Reilly Media imprint: 1651 books
Designing for Behavior Change
Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A new wave of products is helping people change their behavior and daily routines, whether it’s exercising more (Jawbone Up), taking control of their finances (HelloWallet), or organizing their email (Mailbox). This practical guide shows you how to design these types of products for users seeking...
Designing Web Navigation
Optimizing the User Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the...
Understanding Context
Environment, Language, and Information Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
To make sense of the world, we’re always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than ever—starting with "where"...
Head First jQuery
A Brain-Friendly Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Want to add more interactivity and polish to your websites? Discover how jQuery can help you build complex scripting functionality in just a few lines of code. With Head First jQuery, you'll quickly get up to speed on this amazing JavaScript library by learning how to navigate HTML documents while...
Tragic Design
The Impact of Bad Product Design and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Bad design is everywhere, and its cost is much higher than we think. In this thought-provoking book, authors Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier explain how poorly designed products can anger, sadden, exclude, and even kill people who use them. The designers responsible certainly didn’t...
Agile for Everybody
Creating Fast, Flexible, and Customer-First Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
The Agile movement provides real, actionable answers to the question that keeps many company leaders awake at night: How do we stay successful in a fast-changing and unpredictable world? Agile has already transformed how modern companies build and deliver software. This practical book demonstrates...
Mobile Development with C#
Building Native iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
It’s true: you can build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with C# and the .NET Framework—with help from MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This hands-on guide shows you how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms by combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate,...
by Matthew MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program, has the muscle to analyze heaps of data. Beyond basic number-crunching, Excel 2010 has many impressive features that are hard to find, much less master -- especially from online help pages. This Missing Manual clearly explains how everything works...
Yahoo! Hacks
Tips & Tools for Living on the Web Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites. But ten years later, it has expanded into a department store overflowing with useful and innovative tools and services-from email, blogging, social networking, and instant messaging, to news,...
Halo 2 Hacks
Tips & Tools for Finishing the Fight
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
Even if you've finished Halo 2 in Legendary Mode, you're not done with this game. Not by a long shot. You know there's a lot more you can squeeze out of Halo 2, and with the clever hacks we have in store, you'll turn the game into a whole new experience. Halo 2 Hacks is the creation of consummate...
Head First WordPress
A Brain-Friendly Guide to Creating Your Own Custom WordPress Blog
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Whether you’re promoting your business or writing about your travel adventures, Head First WordPress will teach you not only how to make your blog look unique and attention-grabbing, but also how to dig into the more complex features of WordPress 3.0 to make your website work well, too.
You’ll...
Head First HTML5 Programming
Building Web Apps with JavaScript
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
HTML has been on a wild ride. Sure, HTML started as a mere markup language, but more recently HTML’s put on some major muscle. Now we’ve got a language tuned for building web applications with Web storage, 2D drawing, offline support, sockets and threads, and more. And to speak this language you’ve...
Head First JavaScript Programming
A Brain-Friendly Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
What will you learn from this book?
This brain-friendly guide teaches you everything from JavaScript language fundamentals to advanced topics, including objects, functions, and the browser’s document object model. You won’t just be reading—you’ll be playing games, solving puzzles, pondering...
Head First Java
A Brain-Friendly Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Learning a complex new language is no easy task especially when it s an object-oriented computer programming language like Java. You might think the problem is your brain. It seems to have a mind of its own, a mind that doesn't always want to take in the dry, technical stuff you're forced to study.
The...