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Tapworthy

iOS iPhone

By Josh Clark
Published by O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920001133)

Set Your App Apart with Elegant Design

This accessible, well-written guide shows you how to design exceptional user experiences for the iPhone and iPod Touch, through practical principles and a rich collection of visual examples.

Whether you’re a designer, programmer, manager, or marketer, you’ll learn how the most tapworthy apps combine design, psychology, culture, ergonomics, and usability. You’ll gain behind-the-scenes insights from the designers of apps like Facebook, USA Today, Twitterrific, and many others.

* Develop your ideas from initial concept to finished design
* Build an effortless user experience that rewards every tap
* Explore the secrets of designing for touch
* Discover how and why people really use iPhone apps
* Learn to use iPhone controls the Apple way
* Create your own personality-packed visuals

About the Author:

Josh Clark is an independent designer and developer who offers workshops and consulting services to help creative companies build tapworthy iPhone apps and effective websites. Josh is also author of Best iPhone Apps (O’Reilly) and creator of Big Medium, a web content management system.

Superb Reading Features

Through a partnership between O'Reilly Media and Lexcycle, this app includes the same features that have made Stanza an iPhone phenomenon with over a million downloads:
* Full book text search
* Several fonts and themes to choose from
* Built-in dictionary
* The ability to add annotations
* Landscape view
* Extensive cross-referencing and working hyperlinks
* Zoom function for images and screenshots

About O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. Learn more about Ebooks from O'Reilly at oreilly.com/ebooks.

About Lexcycle

Lexcycle is the creator of Stanza Bookbinder which was used to create this standalone book application. Stanza Bookbinder is based on the popular iPhone Ebook reading application, Stanza. For more information about Stanza, visit www.lexcycle.com.