Good interfaces are more difficult to successfully design that designers think. Users demand that interfaces be easy to use, efficient, and good-looking while managers demand they be original and developed quickly. The designer has plenty of tools and technology at his or her disposal, but rarely does he or she know what to do with them.

This is where Jenifer Tidwell’s Designing Interfaces comes to the rescue, crafting a book that not only combines some of the most timeless tricks and designs successful UI designers have been using and evolving through the years, but also an understanding of just why and how they work. You’ll get recommendations, design alternatives, explanations of complicated design topics, and warnings of when good designs don’t work.

This isn’t a book that will design an interface for you, but it will give you plenty of sound guidance and inspiration for creating something that is innovated, sleek, and useful.