This was my first book commission. Originally it was commissioned by AVA in 2011, as part of a new Interactive Design series written by 5 different authors. I interrupted the writing of my PhD to complete this book, which had by 2013 been transferred to Bloomsbury Publishing after they bought AVA. As one of my PhD supervisors remarked, PhD students usually write a book after their doctoral award and not during it! The book's contents essentially consolidated my thinking up to where my doctoral thesis then took me in a fresh direction. This book not only gave me legitimacy as an academic, but also a dry run at writing a manuscript. This 2014 book's word count was around 45,000 words. My 2016 PhD dissertation was about 73,000 words plus numerous appendices.

If you want to design successful user interfaces then you need clear and effective visual communication.Interface Design will help you achieve this using a range of incisive case studies, interviews with professional designers and clear hands-on advice to help you produce user-focused front-end designs for a range of digital media interfaces.

This book introduces the major elements of graphic design for digital media – layout, colour, iconography, imagery and typography, and shows how these visual communication basics can combine to produce positive interactive user experiences. With practical advice on improving communication between designers and developer, and a tantalizing look at designing interactivity for all five senses, this is a must-have introduction to developing interfaces that users will love.