When it's you against 200 other applicants, you must stand out. Are you stressing over your portfolio? Second-guessing your resume? Obsessing about what crazy questions or design exercises they might throw at you during an interview? In How to Get a UX Design Job, UX veteran Lisa Murnan shows you how to: * Design everything for your "users" (hint: recruiters, hiring managers, and potential teammates) * Create an Applicant Tracking System-friendly resume that gets you noticed by a real, live person * Write a cover letter that shows off your personality * Design a UX portfolio with substance that will impress recruiters and hiring managers * Build a professional online presence with your website, LinkedIn, and other social media * Answer common UX interview questions with confidence * Master the art of the in-person design exercise Written by a UX designer for UX designers, this practical, tactical handbook will help you take your user experience career to the next level.

    You’ll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts.This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date. Build HTML pages with text, links, images, tables, and forms Use style sheets (CSS) for colors, backgrounds, formatting text, page layout, and even simple animation effects Learn how JavaScript works and why the language is so important in web design Create and optimize web images so they’ll download as quickly as possible NEW! Use CSS Flexbox and Grid for sophisticated and flexible page layout NEW! Learn the ins and outs of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices NEW! Become familiar with the command line, Git, and other tools in the modern web developer’s toolkit NEW! Get to know the super-powers of SVG graphics

     Author Joris Bryon is a longtime optimization specialist who writes warmly and conversationally, making even “dry” topics like Google Analytics easy to understand. From metrics all the way down to microcopy, Bryon distills his years of experience into a manual for continuous revenue growth. After reading Kill Your Conversion Killers, you’ll be able to: • Quickly prioritize tests by calculating potential revenue growth • Leverage the psychological drivers that push prospects to buy • Create and deploy friction-free design and UX • Confidently run meaningful A/B tests • Avoid dangerous “best practices” that can tank your revenue • Spot potential conversion killers at a glance Bottom line: Kill Your Conversion Killers is a must-read for every revenue-driven e-commerce marketer.

    The aim is to find more accessible and robust solutions for the patterns we author, plug in, and use every day.Each chapter tackles a single component, addressing how different and vulnerable people might read and interact with it, and how they can be better accommodated. The in-depth explorations are meticulously illustrated and code examples culminate as working demos.Inclusive design is not about wrong and right, but bad to better. You'll learn plenty of tips from Inclusive Components, but you'll also adopt the mindset to go on and make even better components.

    This book is a major new release for 2018, covering the latest version of Wordpress. Building a beautiful, professional looking Wordpress website, is no longer the domain of computer geeks. Wordpress makes it possible for anyone to create and run a website that looks great on any device - PC, Mac, tablet and phone, for hobby or business. The primary goal of this book is to take anyone, even an absolute beginner, from zero to Wordpress "guru" in a few short hours. I'll hold your hand, step-by-step, all the way. You get to watch over my shoulder as we explore the Wordpress Dashboard. Inside this book, veteran Wordpress expert Andy Williams will start at the very beginning. You'll learn important topics like: • The two different versions of Wordpress. • Website hosting and domain registrars. How to set this up with separate registrar and host, for more security. • How to install Wordpress. • An overview of the Dashboard including how to find hidden items. • Cleaning out the stuff that is installed by default. • Finding and installing Wordpress themes to instantly change the look and feel of your website. • Plugins. What they are and how you can use them to create magnificent websites. • How to update Wordpress, themes and plugins. • Every single Dashboard setting, what they do, and what you should use in the settings of your website. • How to find and use the RSS feeds on your site to help search engines find your content. • The importance of user profiles, and how to assign a "Gravatar" image to your email address. • How to create great navigation systems on your site, with custom menus, internal linking and related post sections. • Enabling and dealing with visitor comments. • Using the media library for images, video and more. • The difference between pages and posts, and a simple way to know which one you should be using for each bit of content you publish on your website. • Effective use of categories and tags. Using these incorrectly can get your site penalized or even banned from search engines. • How to write posts, and even schedule them so they will be published at some future date. • Using post revisions. • Two different types of homepage. A blog style page v a more traditional "static" homepage. • Using widgets on your site to add neat features. • This book does not focus on any particular Wordpress theme (website "skin"). Instead, it teaches you how to master Wordpress so you can choose and use any theme you like. We'll also cover thost vital plugins every site need, including: • Automatically take backups and get them sent to the cloud. • Automatically create important legal pages on your site, like terms and privacy policy. • Creating a contact page so visitors can contact you. • Add a related posts section to the end of every post to keep visitors on site longer. • Setup good SEO practices. • Setup social sharing buttons on your site, so visitors can easily tell their friends about your great web pages. Most people learn better when they can actually see what they are reading about, so one thing this book isn't, is shy about screenshots.

    Initially dubbed Angular 2, this version is a complete rewrite from the same team that built the initial version of AngularJS. Developers familiar with that earlier version will also find this book to be a valuable resource. Author Shyam Seshadri takes you step-by-step through Angular’s core building blocks in detail. You’ll start by creating a simple Angular application before diving into Angular components, services, server calls, routing, and production requirements. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to use Angular for your own applications. Set up your development environment to build Angular applications rapidly Use Angular directives to construct common functionality for your application Create and test Angular components for building effective user interfaces Manage user input by building template-driven and reactive forms Understand when to use built-in Angular services and when and how to create your own Make HTTP calls and handle use cases that surface when working with servers Use Angular’s routing module to encapsulate various pages and pieces using a different route Build an Angular application for production and learn how to deploy a performant Angular application

    You then continuously improve these top tasks based on evidence of customers trying to complete them.Developed as a result of 15 years of research and practice.Implemented by some of the world’s largest organizations: Cisco, Microsoft, NetApp, IBM, Google, European Union, Toyota, Tetra Pak, and hundreds more.More than 300,000 customers have participated in Top Tasks studies in over 40 countries and 30 languages.

    Responsive Issues Community Group (RICG) chair Mat Marquis helps us make smart decisions about images and shows us the swiftest way to improve a website’s performance: from understanding compression methods used by common image formats, to responsive image markup patterns and their usage, to handling content delivery for the best user experience. Get up to speed—and speed up your site.