Böcker av Preston So

From stone tablets to paper pages to backlit screens, humans have always created and shaped content to fit the containers available to us. But increasingly, the lines between our physical and digital surroundings are blurring-and we need to design usable and accessible content for an ever-expanding array of contexts.Preston So guides designers, content strategists, and engineers on a journey through the emerging realm of immersive content design. Learn to create incisive and inclusive user-centered experiences across augmented, extended, and virtual realities, transforming the physical world into an exciting new canvas for content.THIS BOOK EXPLORES:Immersive tech like beacons, digital signs, and extended realityAssessing and leveraging existing content for immersive environmentsTechniques for storyboarding, diagramming, and mapping spatial contentStrategies for designing accessible and inclusive immersive contentBest practices for testing immersive content

Interfaces have long been visual affairs, with content confined to the text and images behind our screens. But that's changing. Humans have started talking to interfaces-and interfaces are talking back.Now we need to ensure those interfaces can converse effectively, thoughtfully, and naturally. Preston So introduces us to the exciting new frontier of voice content design, and the questions that designers, content strategists, and engineers need to answer in order to build richly structured, inclusive communication with the powerful medium of voice.THIS BOOK EXPLORES:Steps for preparing your existing content for voice interfacesFrameworks for crafting effective dialoguesEffectively diagramming communication flowsHow to consider accessibility, inclusivity, and editorial integrity in voice content designTechniques for quality testing voice content

Get the definitive guide on Gatsby, the JavaScript framework for building blazing fast websites and applications. Used by Nike, Costa Coffee, and other companies worldwide, Gatsby is emerging as one of the key technologies in the Jamstack (JavaScript, APIs, and markup) ecosystem. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to architect, build, and deploy Gatsby sites independently or with CMSs, commerce systems, and other data sources.Author Preston So begins by showing you how to set up a Gatsby site from scratch. From there, you??ll learn ways to use Gatsby??s declarative rendering and GraphQL API, build complex offline-enabled sites, and continuously deploy Gatsby sites on a variety of platforms, including Gatsby Cloud.Discover how Gatsby integrates with many data sources and plug-insSet up, configure, and architect Gatsby sites using Gatsby's CLI, React, JSX, and GraphQL with high performance out of the boxBuild an independent Gatsby site based on Markdown and data- and content-driven Gatsby sites that integrate with CMSs and commerce platformsDeploy Gatsby sites with full CI/CD and test coverage on a variety of platforms, including Netlify, Vercel, and Gatsby Cloud