Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground

by Curt Cloninger

Fresher Styles for Web Designers surveys eight innovative, contemporary visual design styles that break the mold and offer creative solutions to a variety of interactive design challenges. Readers will learn practical ways to incorporate these design approaches into their commercial work, using specific online examples as illustration.

In 2001, Cloninger wrote Fresh Styles for Web Designers, arguing that beauty actually enhances usability. Since then, styles and technologies have evolved, but clients still expect sites that both function well and visually entice. This book will inspire web designers and developers to deliver sites that do both. There are plenty of web design books that teach code. There are several books about contemporary print design that discuss visual aesthetics. This book stands out because it synthesizes experimental web design innovations with commercial marketing goals (without ignoring usability concerns).

Genres: Nonfiction, Website Design, Web, Design

205 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 2001

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll admit: four stars is probably a very generous rating for this book. However, having received this while in high school as a budding web designer, I have a great fondness for this dog-eared book. At the time it provoked curiosity and imagination – now it stands as a record of what the edges of web design looked like in 2000.

[Grigory · Rating 4 out of 5]

Хорошая, годная книга. Для своего времени )

[indi 👾]

the most depressing book i’ve ever read

[Paolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Primo e (a quanto mi risulta, tuttora) unico tentativo di sistematizzazione delle tendenze del web design.

[Tufan Hisim · Rating 5 out of 5]

very inspiring for new web designers...a must have!