Designing Information Architecture. A practical guide to structuring digital content for findability and easy navigability

Pabini Gabriel-Petit, Jim Kalbach

In a world that suffers from information overload, how can information architects help people quickly find the exact digital content they need? This is where Designing Information Architecture comes in as your practical guide to creating easy-to-use experiences for digital information spaces—be it websites, applications, or intranets—by creating well-structured information architectures (IAs) and effective navigation and search systems. It shows you how to improve the organization, findability, and usability of digital content using proven IA design methods and strategies.Designing Information Architecture is an up-to-date resource on IA. Written by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, a recognized expert in user experience (UX) and IA with decades of industry experience, this book offers both expert insights and practical design guidance. It also explores modern, AI-driven approaches to implementing search systems that can help users overcome the challenges of information overload.Throughout the book, you’ll learn why a well-structured information architecture remains more critical than ever in delivering effective digital information spaces.

Designing Machine Learning Systems with Python. Key design strategies to create intelligent systems

David Julian

Machine learning is one of the fastest growing trends in modern computing. It has applications in a wide range of fields, including economics, the natural sciences, web development, and business modeling. In order to harness the power of these systems, it is essential that the practitioner develops a solid understanding of the underlying design principles.There are many reasons why machine learning models may not give accurate results. By looking at these systems from a design perspective, we gain a deeper understanding of the underlying algorithms and the optimisational methods that are available. This book will give you a solid foundation in the machine learning design process, and enable you to build customised machine learning models to solve unique problems. You may already know about, or have worked with, some of theoff-the-shelf machine learning models for solving common problems such as spam detection or movie classification, but to begin solving more complex problems, it is important to adapt these models to your own specific needs. This book will give you this understanding and more.

Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS. A modern approach to designing and implementing scalable microservices platforms with NATS messaging

Chanaka Fernando

Building a scalable microservices platform that caters to business demands is critical to the success of that platform. In a microservices architecture, inter-service communication becomes a bottleneck when the platform scales. This book provides a reference architecture along with a practical example of how to implement it for building microservices-based platforms with NATS as the messaging backbone for inter-service communication.In Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS, you’ll learn how to build a scalable and manageable microservices platform with NATS. The book starts by introducing concepts relating to microservices architecture, inter-service communication, messaging backbones, and the basics of NATS messaging. You’ll be introduced to a reference architecture that uses these concepts to build a scalable microservices platform and guided through its implementation. Later, the book touches on important aspects of platform securing and monitoring with the help of the reference implementation. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on best practices to follow when integrating with existing platforms and the future direction of microservices architecture and NATS messaging as a whole.By the end of this microservices book, you’ll have developed the skills to design and implement microservices platforms with NATS.

Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3. A practical guide to the usage of CSS3 – a journey through properties, tools, and techniques to better understand CSS3

Sandro Paganotti

CSS3 unveils new possibilities for frontend web developers: things that would require JavaScript, such as animation and form validation, or even third party plugins, such as 3D transformations, are now accessible using this technology.Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3 contains ten web projects fully developed using cutting edge CSS3 techniques. It also covers time saving implementation tips and tricks as well as fallback, polyfills, and graceful degradation approaches.This book draws a path through CSS3; it starts with projects using well supported features across web browsers and then it moves to more sophisticated techniques such as multi polyfill implementation and creating a zooming user interface with SVG and CSS. React to HTML5 form validation, target CSS rules to specific devices, trigger animations and behavior in response to user interaction, gain confidence with helpful tools like SASS, learn how to deal with old browsers and more.Designing Next Generation Web Projects with CSS3 is a helpful collection of techniques and good practices designed to help the implementation of CSS3 properties and features.

Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions. A comprehensive and practical guide to implementing end-to-end IoT solutions

Mohamed Abdelaziz

With the rising demand for and recent enhancements in IoT, a developer with sound knowledge of IoT is the need of the hour. This book will help you design, build, and operate large-scale E2E IoT solutions to transform your business and products, increase revenue, and reduce operational costs.Starting with an overview of how IoT technologies can help you solve your business problems, this book will be a useful guide to helping you implement end-to-end IoT solution architecture. You'll learn to select IoT devices; real-time operating systems; IoT Edge covering Edge location, software, and hardware; and the best IoT connectivity for your IoT solution. As you progress, you'll work with IoT device management, IoT data analytics, IoT platforms, and put these components to work as part of your IoT solution. You'll also be able to build IoT backend cloud from scratch by leveraging the modern app architecture paradigms and cloud-native technologies such as containers and microservices. Finally, you'll discover best practices for different operational excellence pillars, including high availability, resiliency, reliability, security, cost optimization, and high performance, which should be applied for large-scale production-grade IoT solutions.By the end of this IoT book, you'll be confident in designing, building, and operating IoT solutions.

Designing Professional Websites with Odoo Website Builder. Create and customize state-of-the-art websites and e-commerce apps for your modern business needs

Sainu Nannat

The Odoo website builder is an operational tool in the Odoo platform that allows you to design, develop, and manage a website. This book introduces and explains all the features of the Odoo website builder that will help you to be more productive while creating websites.The book starts with an overview of the Odoo website builder, its functionalities, and the tools it offers. Using descriptive illustrations and practical examples, you’ll gain detailed insights into the block operations of the Odoo website builder and learn how to work with structure blocks, features blocks, and dynamic content blocks. As you advance, you’ll discover how to use the HTML, CSS, or JS editor in Odoo website builder applications for customization. This Odoo book will take you through the different aspects of website building and show you how e-commerce websites can be designed and developed using website builder applications. You’ll build a website, manage it, and run a discussion forum in Odoo using the website builder, and apply your knowledge to add a live chat tool that can be incorporated into your website using the Odoo website builder.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the Odoo website builder and be able to leverage its features to develop your own website.

Designing Purpose-Built Drones for Ardupilot Pixhawk 2.1. Build drones with Ardupilot

Ty Audronis

The Ardupilot platform is an application ecosystem that encompasses various OS projects for drone programming, flight control, and advanced functionalities.The Ardupilot platform supports many Comms and APIs, such as DroneKit, ROS, and MAVLink. It unites OS drone projects to provide a common codebase. With the help of this book, you will have the satisfaction of building a drone from scratch and exploring its many recreational uses (aerial photography, playing, aerial surveillance, and so on). This book helps individuals and communities build powerfulUAVs for both personal and commercial purposes. You will learn to unleash the Ardupilot technology for building,monitoring, and controlling your drones.This is a step-by-step guide covering practical examples and instructions for assembling a drone, building ground control unit using microcontrollers, QgroundControl, and MissionPlanner.You can further build robotic applications on your drone utilizing critical software libraries and tools from the ROS framework. With the help of DroneKit and MAVLink (for reliable communication), you can customize applications via cloud and mobile to interact with your UAV.

Designing React Hooks the Right Way. Explore design techniques and solutions to debunk the myths about adopting states using React Hooks

Fang Jin, Sagar Kale

React hook creates a unique solution for using states in function components to orchestrate UI communication. They provide you with an easy interface to write custom data management solutions with low development and maintenance costs. Understanding how Hooks are designed enables you to use them more effectively, and this book helps you to do just that.This book starts with a custom-crafted solution to reveal why Hooks are needed in the first place. You will learn about the React engine and discover how each built-in Hook can manage a persistent value by hooking into it. You will walk through the design and implementation of each hook with code so that you gain a solid understanding. Finally, you'll get to grips with each Hook's pitfalls and find out how to effectively overcome them.By the end of this React book, you'll have gained the confidence to build and write Hooks for developing functional and efficient web applications at scale.

Designing the Adobe InDesign Way. Explore 100+ recipes for creating stunning layouts with the leading desktop publishing software

Andy Gardiner

Adobe InDesign is the leading desktop publishing and layout software for producing brochures, magazines, flyers, books, posters, and a wide range of digital documents. It allows you to rapidly draft your documents with precise control over typography, images, positioning, alignment, color, and other interactive features. However, InDesign’s interface, tools, and workflows can be a bit challenging to get to grips with. This cookbook will assist you in building unparalleled InDesign workflows with tried and tested recipes.With Designing the Adobe InDesign Way, you’ll learn how to add and edit content, create color swatches, and use features such as tables, all while applying software best practices and techniques to ensure that your work is fast, efficient, and easily maintained. Additionally, you’ll explore advanced InDesign features such as text styles, parent pages, tables of contents, and pre-flighting. Finally, you’ll take a closer look at the many export options in InDesign and ways to truly maximize its capabilities.By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to draft and design your own projects while ensuring your work is compatible with industry standards for print and digital documents.

Designing the Human Business. Leveraging Design Thinking to craft powerful and innovative business models

Anthony Mills

Globally, 275,000 new business ventures get launched every single day, and ninety percent of them fail. One of the most fundamental reasons for that is that they don’t solve a real market problem that a real market population has, in a way that resonates with that market and sells their solution. Consequently, they struggle to gain traction and attain scale.In this book, you’ll learn what business models are. Additionally, you’ll find out what business model innovation is and, ultimately, how to use Design Thinking to identify not just a winning value proposition but also bring that value proposition to the market in a way that resonates with customers. In doing so, you’ll be able to unlock maximum value for your business, allowing it to attain maximum scale through growing waves of adopters.By the end of this book, you’ll understand what you need to do to uncover your target markets’ ‘reason to buy’, as well as how to wrap a winning business model around that reason so that your business can gain traction and achieve scale.

Designing Web APIs with Strapi. Get started with the Strapi headless CMS by building a complete learning management system API

Khalid Elshafie, Mozafar Haider

Strapi is a Node.js-based, flexible, open-source headless CMS with an integrated admin panel that anyone can use and helps save API development time. APIs built with Strapi can be consumed using REST or GraphQL from any client. With this book, you'll take a hands-on approach to exploring the capabilities of the Strapi platform and creating a custom API from scratch.This book will help JavaScript developers to put their knowledge to work by guiding them through building powerful backend APIs. You'll see how to effortlessly create content structures that can be customized according to your needs, and gain insights into how to write, edit, and manage your content seamlessly with Strapi. As you progress through the chapters, you'll discover a wide range of Strapi features, as well as understand how to add complex features to the API such as user authentication, data sorting, and pagination. You'll not only learn how to find and use existing plugins from the open-source community but also build your own plugins with custom functionality with the Strapi plugin API and add them to the admin panel. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy the API to Heroku and AWS.By the end of this book, you'll be able to build powerful, scalable, and secure APIs using Strapi.

Désiré Mercier (1851-1926). Wokół kantyzmu i apologii wiary

Aleksander R. Bańka

Postać Désiré Merciera (1851—1926) — belgijskiego filozofa, teologa, kardynała i prymasa Belgii, twórcy neoscholastycznej szkoły lowańskiej i wielkiego odnowiciela tomizmu — na stałe zapisała się w dziejach współczesnej filozofii. Pamiętają o nim zwłaszcza ci spośród przedstawicieli klasycznej filozofii, którzy w odradzającej się w dziewiętnastym i dwudziestym wieku scholastyce widzieli szansę zbudowania nowoczesnej, realistycznie zorientowanej filozofii. Chodziło więc między innymi o to, aby stawić czoła wyzwaniom, które niósł z sobą współczesny idealizm w jego rozmaitych wersjach — zwłaszcza w tej, która wiązała się z szeroko rozumianym dziedzictwem filozofii Kanta. Oczywiście, polemika z kantyzmem była wyzwaniem, którego nie mogła podjąć filozofia scholastyczna literalnie wskrzeszona w nowym, współczesnym kontekście. Problemy kantowskiego krytycyzmu, w tym zwłaszcza transcendentalne, epistemologiczne zorientowanie jego filozofii, nie mogły zostać przemyślane zgodnie z przedkrytycznymi schematami pojęciowymi i modelami interpretacyjnymi, które dawno straciły na aktualności.[...]

Desperado! Autobiografia

Tomasz Stańko

Mroczny książę polskiego jazzu Najsławniejszy i najwyżej ceniony na świecie polski muzyk jazzowy opowiada o początkach polskiego jazzu, legendarnych koncertach i sesjach nagraniowych, o wspaniałych muzykach, z którymi miał okazję współpracować. Razem z trębaczem zaglądamy w nuty, za kulisy i w głąb jego własnej duszy. Idziemy drogą, która zaprowadziła go na szczyty plebiscytów w najlepszych jazzowych periodykach świata, oraz ścieżką wiodącą wprost na dno. Wraz ze Stańką poznajemy podziemny świat ćpunów, dilerów i szaleństwa, by przekonać się, jak po latach w nim spędzonych można powrócić do rzeczywistości. Dopełnieniem opowieści o muzyce i życiu są barwne reprodukcje niezwykle oryginalnych szkiców kompozycji i liczne, często niepublikowane wcześniej, fotografie. Tomasz Stańko (ur. 1942) trębacz i kompozytor, powszechnie uważany za jednego z najlepszych trębaczy jazzowych na świecie. Koncerty jego zespołów wypełniają sale we wszystkich zakątkach globu, a jego płyty wydaje monachijska ECM najważniejsza wytwórnia w Europie i jedna z najlepszych na świecie. Rafał Księżyk (ur. 1970) dziennikarz i krytyk muzyczny. Od początku lat 90. współtworzył oblicze rodzącej się wówczas nowej prasy muzycznej i popkulturowej. Jako redaktor pracował m. in. w magazynach Brum, Plastik, Antena Krzyku, a jego teksty o muzyce ukazywały się we wszystkich liczących się czasopismach specjalistycznych oraz . w Gazecie Wyborczej, Newsweeku i Przekroju". Aktualnie pracuje jako zastępca redaktora naczelnego Playboya, a jako krytyk muzyczny współpracuje z Machiną i kanałem TVP Kultura.

Desperate Remedies. A Novel

Thomas Hardy

Once upon a time there lived in the 19th century a charming young lady from a poor but proud family and a young ambitious gentleman in spirit, but not in origin. And now the boundaries of estates and welfare were ready to be erased under the pressure of the couples feelings and understanding of the girls parents that its not the age of her daughter to attract men and we need to work with what we have. However, the lady turned out to be capricious, fell into a hysteria and forced the family to rush off to hell, as soon as she heard about a marriage proposal from our hero.

Despite Your (im)perfections. Dotrzymaj złożonej mi obietnicy

Marta Łabęcka

Opowiedz mi naszą historię. Jest taka piękna... Josephine i Chase wreszcie są szczęśliwi. Po wszystkich burzach, sztormach i zawieruchach, których nie szczędził im los, wciąż są razem, połączeni uczuciem, a w dorosłość wkracza właśnie najpiękniejszy owoc ich miłości ― osiemnastoletnia Destiny. Destiny zna historię swoich rodziców i podobnie jak wiele osób w jej wieku, trochę marzy o przeżyciu równie romantycznego uczucia ― oczywiście ze szczęśliwym zakończeniem. Na razie jednak poznajemy ją w chwili, gdy wyrusza z rodzicami, by spędzić święta w gronie krewnych i przyjaciół. Dziewczyna nie może się już doczekać spotkania z bliskimi... Zwłaszcza z jednym, ważnym dla niej człowiekiem. Alfie, dawny towarzysz dziecięcych zabaw, wyrósł na przystojnego mężczyznę i to jego Destiny szczególnie pragnie zobaczyć. A ponieważ jest córką swoich rodziców, to ― zupełnie jak kiedyś ― sprawy szybko zaczną się komplikować... Piękne zwieńczenie bestsellerowego cyklu! Ostatnia część trylogii, którą tworzą także Flaw(less). Opowiedz mi naszą historię i All Of Your Flaws. Przypomnij mi naszą przeszłość. Posłuchaj audiobooka:

Destroy Us

Paulina Śmiech

Miłość, zdrada i trudne konsekwencje wyborów z przeszłości Camilla wiedzie luksusowe, ale niezbyt szczęśliwe życie córki bogatych i wpływowych rodziców. Choć marzyła, by studiować architekturę, pod wpływem matki i Elliota, brata bliźniaka, ostatecznie wybiera prawo. Rodzeństwo studiuje w Londynie. Uczą się razem, ale mieszkają osobno. Spotkanie Camillii z Evanem, tajemniczym współlokatorem brata, wydaje się przypadkowe. Jednak wkrótce się okazuje, że łączy ich mocna więź, która ma początek w przeszłości. Zagłębiając się w nią, Camilla odkrywa prawdę o swojej rodzinie - o kłamstwach i zdradach kryjących się za pozłacaną fasadą. Czy Evan pomoże jej przez to przejść? Czy będzie dla Camilli oparciem, którego ona tak bardzo potrzebuje? Czy zdoła ją uratować?