Design of Urban Space: An Inquiry into a Socio-Spatial Process
This book on urban design bridges the gap between purely architectural formulations and the practitioners′ guides. Designed in the architectural idiom with specially produced line drawings to appeal to those who are interested in the built environment.
Refresh: Contemporary Vegan Recipes From the Award Winning Fresh Restaurants
reFresh is a new edition of Ruth Tal’s first book, Juice for Life (Wiley 2000, 978-0-7715-7690-4). Completely revised and updated, reFresh offers the reader a sumptuous selection of the best recipes found on the restaurant’s menu today, all in a gorgeous full colour package that reflects the award-winning style and design of the restaurants themselves.
Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last
Social networks and online communities are reshaping the way people communicate, both in their personal and professional lives. What makes some succeed and others fail? What draws a user in? What makes them join? What keeps them coming back? Entrepreneurs and businesses are turning to user experience practitioners to figure this out. Social networks require a different set of design principles and ways of thinking about the user in order to be successful.
"Take fundamental principles of psychology. Illustrate. Combine with Fundamental Principles of Design. Stir gently until fully blended. Read daily until finished. Caution: The mixture is addictive." -- Don Norman, Nielsen Norman group, Author of Design of Future Things. "[This book] is a primer to understand the why of the larger human action principles at work-a sort of cognitive science for designers in a hurry. ..." -- Stuart Card, Senior Research Fellow and the manager of the User Interface Research group at the Palo Alto Research Centerfrom the foreword
