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When it comes to parallax scrolling, the line that separates good and bad choices is pretty thin. A while back parallax was being used to deliver an explosion of elements floating around the screen, and a lot of times the websites using the effect were a bit overwhelming. Fast forward a couple years, polish the idea and keep in mind that the “less is more” concept also works for parallax, and you have websites with elegant scrolling effects – like the ones we’ve rounded up for this post.

Baylie WordPress Theme

Broken Twill

theQ camera

Betty and Betty

Scytale

Srgint

Cyclemon

Sojourn Network

This is Now

l’unita

Fall in Tennessee

Made by Block

Kill your Darlings

WAAAC

Spotify

Serve Seattle

Codetex

The book suggestion this week is about UX design, the title is The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience by Rex Hartson and Pardha S. Pyla. This book was the winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience.

Book description

Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm grounding in human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts and theory.

The authors will guide you through the UX lifecycle process, including contextual inquiry and analysis, requirements extraction, design ideation and creation, practical design production, prototyping, and UX evaluation. Development activities are linked via handoffs between stages as practitioners move through the process. The lifecycle template concept introduced in this book can be tailored to any project environment, from large enterprise system development to commercial products.

A very broad approach to user experience through its components-usability, usefulness, and emotional impact with special attention to lightweight methods such as rapid UX evaluation techniques and an agile UX development process
Universal applicability of processes, principles, and guidelines-not just for GUIs and the Web, but for all kinds of interaction and devices: embodied interaction, mobile devices, ATMs, refrigerators, and elevator controls, and even highway signage
Extensive design guidelines applied in the context of the various kinds of affordances necessary to support all aspects of interaction
Real-world stories and contributions from accomplished UX practitioners
A practical guide to best practices and established principles in UX
A lifecycle template that can be instantiated and tailored to a given project, for a given type of system development, on a given budget

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