Microsoft Silverlight Books

Embracing jQuery: User Experience Design is your complete guide to building modern dynamic web sites using jQuery, the extremely popular lightweight and efficient JavaScript library.

As you’d expect, this book provides a thorough explanation of jQuery’s syntax and grammar, and explains how to put together a wide range of popular effects and animations that you can use to add jQuery interactivity to your web sites. The book then goes further. Combining the skills of a web developer and a designer in writing the book, the authors discuss not just how to build functionality, but how best to employ it to create a greatly improved user experience without overdoing it and making your applications harder to use. The book concludes with a series of small case studies that put the theory into action and leave you with reusable templates for good code design.

You’ll Learn

• How to plan and implement a modern interface with jQuery and UXD
• How to manage changes during a project with sketching and prototyping
• How to use the HTML and CSS features that are key enablers to modern interactions
• How to apply Ajax to streamline interactions and workflows
• Why performance is an issue that can be managed to improve the user experience
• How to build advanced interfaces that can be combined into complex web applications

Who is this book for?

This book is for web developers and designers who are starting to add jQuery to their ASP.NET web development projects and are looking for guidance about how to do it effectively and in a way that will give their users maximum value.