This book is well organized. It contains useful information from a user advocate and graphic artist perspective (much of it is just common sense). It is not at all what I expected. I am disappointed; I was misled by the title.



As an application developer - when I think of design patterns, I think of relationships and interactions between classes and objects in the code (i.e. Factory Pattern, Decorator Pattern, Observer Pattern, etc). The 'Security' and 'User Authentication' topics in this book are all about how it looks on the page. This book is about UI design. The title does not fit with the content - in my opinion.



If a web application were a car - this book would be all about paint jobs. There is nothing 'under the hood'. It has nice pictures but has little to offer in terms of content for a serious application developer.