Artists have always explored new media, and computer-based artists are no exception. Generative art, an emerging technique where print or onscreen images are created by use of computer algorithms, finds the artistic intersection between programming, computer graphics, and individual expression. Generative Art presents both the technique and the beauty of algorithmic art. In it, you'll find dozens of high-quality examples of generative art, along with the specific programmatic steps author and artist Matt Pearson followed to create each unique piece. The book includes concise tutorials for each of the technical components required to create the book's examples, and it offers countless suggestions for how you can combine and reuse the various techniques to create your own works.

Knowing how to create a social website to foster user interaction and community building is becoming a core skill for developers and designers today, but grasping the nuances of the social web is much harder than it appears. With more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, this book presents practical design solutions that you can use immediately to create or improve a social website interface. Written by curators of "Yahoo!'s Pattern Library", "Designing Social Interfaces" shares hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. That includes salient advice for many of the common challenges designers and developers face when building managing social websites. This book will help you: learn basic design patterns for adding a social element to an existing site; reign in misbehaving users on an active community site; build a social experience around a product or service, and invite people to join; develop a social utility without having to build an entirely new infrastructure; enable users of your site's content to interact with one another; and, offer your members the opportunity to connect with each other in the real world. The book also exposes antipatterns: emergent bad practices in the social network and social media space.

From IDEO, the global innovation and design firm responsible for such landmark products as Apple's first computer mouse, comes a primer in the observation method that keeps their practice human-centered and ever ingenious. People unconsciously perform ultraordinary actions every day, from throwing a jacket over a chair back to claim the seat, or placing something in the teeth when all hands are full. These "thoughtless acts" reveal the subtle but crucial ways people behave in a world not always perfectly tailored to their needs. "Thoughtless Acts?" is a collection of dozens of (often humorous) snapshots capturing such fleeting adaptations and minor exploitations. This method of observation demonstrates the kind of common-sense approach that can inspire designers and anyone involved in creative endeavors. "Thoughtless Acts?" is a privileged peek at how IDEO creates the people-friendly products, services, and spaces for which they are so widely recognized.

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当前的Web已经进入崭新的时代！本书涵盖了在基于独一无二的Web环境下、在创建丰富体验的过程中设计Web界面的最佳实践、模式和原理。UI专家Bill Scott和Theresa Neil在他们多年实践经验和不懈探索的基础上，总结提炼出了Web界面设计的六大原理——直截了当、简化交互、足不出户、提供邀请、使用变换和即时反应，并以这六大原理为依托，以当今Web上各类开风气之先的流行网站为示例，向读者展示了超过75种基于富交互构建Web界面的模式，并以简单明了的语言，阐明了数以百计行之有效的最佳实践。同时，书中还给出诸多反模式，即在Web界面设计过程中应该避免的做法。本书是迄今为止一部专注于富Web界面设计的经典之作。 本书既是一本Web界面设计指南，又是一本Web界面实例参考，适合Web界面设计、开发、研究人员、爱好者，以及Web项目管理人员阅读。