USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN is the multifaceted discipline of shaping digital products and systems into tools that are both useful and usable. Success as a UX designer extends beyond just knowledge of the latest technologies; it also involves diplomacy, management insight, and a solid grasp of business dynamics. In this updated guide, you'll learn to: Understand various roles in UX design, identify stakeholders, and increase collaboration across teamsDefine your project's purpose and scope collabo...

User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application that's easily navigated and meets the needs of the site owner and its users. There's a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, management skills, and business savvy. That's where the updated edition of this important book comes in.

With new information on design principles, mobile and gestural interactions, content strategy, r...

Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface, Second Edition, the award-winning textbook from Patterson and Hennessy that is used by more than 40,000 students per year, continues to present the most comprehensive and readable introduction to this core computer science topic. This version of the book features the RISC-V open source instruction set architecture, the first open source architecture designed for use in modern computing environments such as cloud...

This book is an introductory text on design science, intended to support both graduate students and researchers in structuring, undertaking and presenting design science work. It builds on established design science methods as well as recent work on presenting design science studies and ethical principles for design science, and also offers novel instruments for visualizing the results, both in the form of process diagrams and through a canvas format. While the book does not presume any prior...

A practical guide on how to use Unity for building cross-platform mobile games and Augmented Reality apps using the latest Unity 2020 toolsetKey FeaturesCreate, deploy, and monetize captivating and immersive games on Android and iOS platformsTake your games into the real world by adding augmented reality features to your mobile projectsKick-start your mobile game development journey with step-by-step instructions and a demo game projectBook DescriptionUnity 2020 brings a lot of new features t...

Publisher's note: This edition from 2020 is outdated and does not make use of the most recent Unity and C# features. A new sixth edition, updated for Unity 2021 and including new advanced C# topics, such as reading, writing, and serializing data, has now been published. Key FeaturesUnderstand C# programming basics, terminology, and coding best practicesPut your knowledge of C# concepts into practice by building a fun and playable gameCome away with a clear direction for taking your C# program...

Intermediate-Advanced user level

For courses in computer/network security Computer Security: Principles and Practice, 4th Edition, is ideal for courses in Computer/Network Security. The need for education in computer security and related topics continues to grow at a dramatic rate—and is essential for anyone studying Computer Science or Computer Engineering. Written for both an academic and professional audience, the 4th Edition continues to set the standard for computer security with a balanced presentation of principles ...

“Pioniers waren we tijdens de eerste jaren van het in 1959 opgerichte Rekencentrum. Veel moest er nog worden uitgevonden. Door de trage verwerking van de programma’s en de gebrekkige programmeerhulpmiddelen ging alles moeizaam en traag. Je moest je levenstempo erop afstemmen en alleen mensen met veel geduld voelden zich er helemaal gelukkig bij.”

Jan Kraak was programmeur bij het in 1959 opgerichte Rekencentrum van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, later het Centrum voor Informatie Techno...

Dit boek duikt in de wereld van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI), van de basisprincipes van AI-taalmodellen tot de impact ervan op onze samenleving. Met een naadloze samensmelting van technische inzichten en toekomstvisies, onthult het zowel de mogelijkheden als de ethische dilemma's die AI met zich meebrengt. Geschreven voor iedereen met interesse in de toekomst van technologie, biedt het een fascinerende kijk op hoe AI ons leven en werk zal transformeren, uitgedaagd om na te denken over de ro...