Digital Design Essentials: 100 ways to design better desktop, web, and mobile interfaces

I got an email from my publisher that my book on digital design is going to be out and available by May 1.



Check the Digital Design book at Amazon

Digital Design Essentials takes a practical, highly accessible approach to creating graphical user interface designs for desktop, mobile, and touch screen devices. Written by an expert in the realm of digital design, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide demonstrates how to apply design principles in a variety of desktops, web pages, mobile devices and other touchscreens. Filled with straightforward strategies in a visual format, it’s an essential volume for any designer working in the digital realm.

Here is the information about the book from the jacket cover

Digital Design Essentials

Whether dashboard software or a single-page website, a location-aware mobile app or a 10-foot TV interface, digital design is the tip of the iceberg; the actual design is not how it looks but how it works. Dive deep into the workings of one hundred popular desktop, Web, mobile, and TV user interfaces. Digital Design Essentials is a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary encyclopedia of user interface design. Richly illustrated and easy to navigate, it includes architectural views of the application, best practices and design guidelines, tips for creating a great user experience, along with live examples. Every major user interface concept is defined and illustrated for readers, including command line, "WIMP,” metro UI, skeuomorphic design, accessible web interface, e-commerce, zooming user interface, infographic design, adaptive interface, mobile lifestyle apps, voice interface, and intelligent user interface.

Learn best practices, design guidelines and pointers for creating a compelling user experience. Digital Design Essentials provides the experienced designer with an understanding of application design and user interfaces. Raj Lal points out the different components affecting the user experience and design principles applicable in an array of application interfaces, enabling the reader to understand the inner working of the application, plan key features, apply design guidelines, and choose the best practices instead of reinventing the wheel.

Digital Design Essentials:

● Provides a comprehensive guide to user interface design
● Explains the know-how necessary to understand the application interface
● Points out components affecting the user’s experience of the application
● Provides user interface design guidelines and best practices for design
● Illustrates concepts with a case study for each essential, using real-life examples


Digital Design Essentials is an invaluable resource for graphic artists, UI designers, UX gurus, Web designers, RIA, mobile, and device developers.

Iwe League

So I met some wonderful people at Stanford Ignite, and we decided to create this group, Iwe (I Power We) a private group in linkedIn, for entrepreneurs inspired by Iwe from the book The startup of you by Reid Hoffman.



A professional group with a common goal to succeed as an entrepreneur, by helping each other, sharing resources, and growing together.

A group of entrepreneurs and investors who come together to leverage the individual strengths of each other so that the collective sum is greater than its parts. We come into this group as equals. Each person has their own ideas and interests, all of which are equally important, and each person’s feedback and contribution, is equally valued. With this comes equal amounts of commitment to each other and to the group.

So far we have 6 members, (first row left to right) Raj Lal, Dan, Nina, (second row left to right) Jossy, Michael, Xu.



Our first meeting is on Tuesday. IWe Group is going to be legendary.

How I became a Stanford Igniter

Final day at Ignite! Got my Stanford Ignite Diploma today. End of an exciting Journey or lets say the beginning of an entrepreneur career. The real journey starts now. Here are some pictures.

Yossi Feinberg, the most amazing person I have met this year, teacher and mentor. Learned a lot from Yossi in last three months felt like a century.

But the one thing I will remember for the rest of my life would be

Feedback is a Gift - Yossi Feinberg

Stanford Ignite, a set on Flickr.

My team at Ignite

Here is my Team at Stanford Ignite, We did the presentation together.



The final exam at Ignite was this pitch to the VCs. Check the video, I am in the last five minutes.

Moveshare from Raj Lal on Vimeo.