"UX Simplified: Models & Methodologies" covers basic models and methodologies that are revolved around User Experience (UX). The discussed topics include User Experience, Information Architecture, User Interface, Usability models, User Centered Design (UCD), User Centered Software Design (UCSD), different Software Lifecycles (SDLC) and how usability models fit into SDLC models.The following topics are covered:The Diverse Disciplines: The ABCs of UX User Experience(UX) Inform...

A quick 4 hours guide for designers and beginners to learn using Adobe Edge Preview 3 to develop web animations.The book covers the following topics:What is Adobe Edge?What to Expect from this BookGetting Ready : Download and Setup Adobe Edge on your SystemHour 1: Quick Tour of the Adobe Edge IDEDefault Layout : Welcome to Adobe Edge!"Get Started.." PanelStageToolbarsElements panelTimeline panelProperties ...

The Himalayas during the Cold War period. In the shadow of mountain Kanchanjanga, a mysterious man named Zaif awakens from a time travel inside a frozen cave - wounded, forgotten, and displaced in time. Zaif's journey begins not in a familiar battlefield, but in the blinding silence of a time fissure. One moment he is lost in the cosmic void; the next, he is sprawled upon the frozen glaciers of 1965, gasping for breath, his body battered, his memories in fragments. Rescued...

DesOps (aka. DesignOps) is an approach to design, inspired by the culture of DevOps. At the fundamental level, DesOps is not about introducing new models or process in the enterprise, rather, it is about orchestrating Design Thinking, Lean Methodologies and UCD models & other best practices of the industries along with modern technologies to understand, create and deliver value.The DesOps Enterprise is more than a belief system (like the Open Organization...

Welcome to the dictionary that explains the language of creativity and innovation. This important reference book has a list of 723 design terms, concepts, and rules from many different fields, such as user experience design (UXD), graphic design, industrial design, interior design, fashion design, and more.Whether you're a professional designer, artist, a student, or just interested in how things are made, this is an ultimate reference that will help you understand the complex lang...

Completely illustrated narrative about Rourkela, a city that become one of the iconic industrialization urban symbol in post independent India.A remote village of the 'Roulia' tribe,surrounded by dense forests and hills amidst India's one of the mineral rich valleys, gotselected by the makers of modern India to host India's first public holding Steel and Iron company Hindustan Steel Limited. This story is the the journey of becoming one of the founding stones of moder...

A quick 4 hours guide for developers, web designer and those having basic knowledge in HTML, CSS, Java Script and jQuery to learn using Adobe Edge Preview 3 to develop web interactive and web applications.The book covers the following topics:Before We Start!What is Adobe Edge?What to Expect from this BookHour 1: Overview of Edge RuntimeEdge CompositionEdge SymbolEdge ActionEventsHTML page DOM specific EventsEdge E...

A chilling Cold War mission. A vanished device. And a mountain that swallows secrets whole. When India and the CIA return to Nanda Devi for a second high-risk operation, undercover operative Zaif is thrust into a world of silent ridges, coded transmissions, and rivals hidden in the snow. As danger closes in from all sides, Zaif must rely on instinct, grit, and raw survival to navigate a mission where nothing is as it seems. A gripping 1970s espionage thriller-tense, atmospheric, and unrele...

This is all about the common belief that true love is heavenly, hence it is not possible to achieve it while fulfilling all passions, lust and all those that drive man and his instincts. In this poem in 12 sections different personas carry on the same story. At all the stages of life, the painter and his beloved act as the ultimate reference to their beliefs on love. They sprinkle love, but by the end we see that both of them though separated are forced to suffer. The woman pays for her fa...

The story draws its pulse from the real, turbulent history of India's early nuclear research—an era marked by covert tests, international pressure, and scientific ingenuity hidden beneath layers of secrecy. From the abandoned Nanda Devi plutonium recovery mission to the clandestine preparations that ultimately led to Pokhran-I in 1974, India's journey toward becoming a nuclear power was filled with near-disasters, espionage, and geopolitical chess moves. This book reimagin...

Los Angeles and Washington DC receive unexpected visitors and everyone is scrambling to find out what they are. Julie Rumley, a scientist from Chicago, will find out wether she wants to or not. Soaring is a short story meant to activate your imagination.

Serena Doyle is an eighth-grader with several problems: she hates school, her father is shipping out to the Middle East, and a strange man in black is trying to kill her. Adding to that is the mysterious Door in her dreams that keeps calling to her.When she finds the Door in her grandfather's attic, Serena adds yet another problem: to solve the mystery of the Door would mean directly disobeying her grandfather. But her grandfather won't be around forever, and the Door keeps calling...