Learn UI: An interactive guide to design engineering: how interfaces are built to feel right, from motion and typography to systems and craft.
What this book is
An interactive book about design engineering, read from the people who do it: Rauno Freiberg, Emil Kowalski, Maggie Appleton, Bartosz Ciechanowski, Kathryn Gonzalez, Jim Nielsen, Paco Coursey, Steve Ruiz, Amelia Wattenberger, Andrew Swank. Gestures, motion, components, craft, taste, explanation, canvases, and the career, with every claim traced to its source.
Each chapter pairs prose with figures you operate: set a spring and watch it overshoot, swipe a card and see when the action commits, stack toasts and find out why keyframes fail. Nothing shifts the page, and the glossary quotes the authors verbatim.
Try one
This one is from the Motion chapter. A spring is described by its physics, not by a duration: change the stiffness and damping, then press play and watch the same equation drive the curve and the dot.
Contents
People
The designers and engineers this book reads
Glossary
Every term, defined in its author's words