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Mastering Angular-15 and Ionic-7: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Your First Powerful Mobile App:

Foundational Setup to Advanced Techniques: Build 25 Dynamic App Features with Angular Framework



Unlock the full potential of Angular-15 and Ionic-7 and take your mobile app development skills to new heights! In "Mastering Angular-15 and Ionic-7: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Powerful Mobile Apps," you'll embark on an immersive journey through the exciting world of app development.

Discover how to build powerful, high-performance mobile apps that captivate users and bring your ideas to life. This comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge and techniques to master Angular-15 and Ionic-7, unleashing your creativity and transforming your app development skills.

From the foundational setup to advanced techniques, this book provides step-by-step instructions and real-world examples that empower you to build dynamic and feature-rich mobile apps. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting your app development journey, this guide caters to all skill levels.

Inside, you'll explore a wide range of topics, including:

  • Setting up your first Angular-15 Ionic-7 app with bottom app navigation
  • Powering your app with the magic of MySQL and PHP for data reading and display
  • Utilizing Angular routing for seamless data navigation on separate pages
  • Refining data presentation with filtering techniques using the Set Constructor
  • Performing CRUD operations with PHP, MySQL, and MAMP
  • Implementing the Leaflet JavaScript library to showcase interactive maps
  • Building a toggle side menu with Ionic UI components and Angular routing
  • Securing access with Firebase-powered login pages and social login integration
  • Leveraging APIs such as Twitter, GitHub, and Facebook for expanded authentication options
  • Enhancing user interactions with selectable-searchable data lists and rich text editors
  • Visualizing data with interactive charts using the Charts JS library
  • Managing data with Supabase PostgreSQL database in real-time
  • Whether you're creating personal projects or developing apps for clients, this guide will equip you with the knowledge and skills to tackle any challenge. The practical examples and expert guidance provided will accelerate your learning curve and help you build apps that stand out in today's competitive app market.

If you're ready to unlock the full potential of Angular-15 and Ionic-7 and create remarkable mobile apps, "Mastering Angular-15 and Ionic-7: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Powerful Mobile Apps" is the ultimate resource to fuel your success.


Your First Steps in User Experience Design (UX): Building Your Career in UX Design, Research and Strategy

Are you curious about how to design digital products and services that are comfortable, enjoyable, and satisfying to use? Do you want to learn how to empathize with users, understand their needs and goals, and create solutions that match their expectations? Do you dream of working in a creative and collaborative environment where you can make a positive impact on people's lives?

 

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is definitely for you! This book is an introduction to the exciting and rewarding field of user experience design (UXD). UXD is a multidisciplinary approach that combines research, design, and testing to create user-friendly and user-centric products and services. UXD professionals work in various domains such as web, mobile, software, gaming, healthcare, education, entertainment, and more. They use a variety of tools and methods such as personas, scenarios, wireframes, prototypes, usability testing, and analytics to ensure that their solutions meet the needs and preferences of their target users.

In this book, you will learn the basics of UXD, such as what it is, why it matters, and how it works. You will primarily discover the different roles and skills involved in UXD, such as user researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, content strategists, information architects, usability engineers, and more. You will also get practical tips and advice on how to start or advance your career in UXD, such as how to build your portfolio, find your niche, network with other professionals, and land your dream job.

Whether you are a student, a professional, or a hobbyist who wants to learn more about UXD or pursue a career in this field, this book will provide you with the essential knowledge and guidance you need about UX Careers. By reading this book, you will gain a solid foundation in UXD principles and practices that will help you create amazing experiences for your users. So what are you waiting for? Grab your copy today and start your journey into the wonderful world of UXD!

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Spot The Professional Slaves: An Evocative Guide for Modern Day Employees 


3 years ago I started my professional career after graduating from college. Never did I realize that the work that we take up as professionals in our specific fields has a weird ability to transform our mindsets into that of slaves. The daily grind, the 9 to 5 hustle, or the corporate life started revealing its dark side to my inquisitive mind. I began noting down certain disturbing behaviors, destructive habits, and monotonous routines that led to the degradation of the employees around me. It was everywhere. On my commute, at my workplace, and in the Friday night clubs. They were all acting like responsible adults who like to believe they've got their lives sorted and are free to do anything, but they were not. They were becoming slaves to their careers.

This book is a revelation of some of such slavery-oriented daily habits at work, home, and study, the little things that we don't seem to care about enough until they lead us right to our demise. This work aims to question our professional lives which will ultimately help us make the necessary changes to transform a slavery mindset into a leadership mindset.


The second part of this book opens up three works that aim at young graduates, students, and parents to be mindful of the drawbacks of our conventional education systems and help our younger generation to avoid falling into any sort of slavery trap in their professional lives.

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Build Your Creative Powers: Become an Idea Machine, Add Value to Lives


If you picked up this book, chances are, you're already aware of the value of being creative in life. No, I am not talking about being an artist. I'm talking about being a problem solver. Being the most valuable professional in your field. Being the most charming one in your whole family.

I am talking about the most valuable skill of the 21st century. No, it's not data science, not design, not project management, not stock trading, and definitely not marketing.
It's creativity. Thinking creatively. Working creatively. Creative ideas. Creative solutions. Creativity is the superpower of the modern age.




This book is your holy guide to becoming more creative in your day-to-day decisions. It's about overcoming the hurdles to creative problems, tested tools for creative ideas, leading creative group sessions, evaluating ideas and selecting the best ones, and playing around with creativity.

This book is for you if you are in a management or leadership position at your business and you wish to enhance your creative thinking to create revolutionary products and services that add value to the lives of other people. It'll help you get out of the rut and think about creative ways in which you can transform ideas, play with them, test them, and build a successful plan around them.

This book is for you if you lead or are a part of a design agency or working as a freelance designer. Design is not art. Design's core purpose is to solve problems. The contents of this book will help you refresh your thinking and come up with better design solutions. It'll help you realize that the hurdles you face while generating creative ideas can be easily overcome through some simple techniques.

This book is for you if you're a student at school or in a college and wish to get out of the mundane syllabus and expand your creative horizons. It'll help you develop your creative powers at an early age which will help you turn into a healthy habit much like exercising or eating healthy. It'll help you get into the basics of creativity and will make you realize that you don't need to possess any drawing skills to be a creative person.

This book is for you if you're a creative professional, willing to evolve in this age of disruptions and constant change. We're moving towards a world where most manual labor, repetitive tasks, mundane jobs, and anything that can be taught to a machine are getting wiped out. What remains is the demand for high-value professionals who are exceptionally creative! Read on to become one!





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Visual Dialogues 101 Graphic Design Fundamentals: Design Career, Layout, Typography, and Colour

A picture really does speak 1000 words. 90% of the information out there in the world transmitted to our brains is visual. Visual images are processed 60,000 times faster than long-form text. 67% of business owners across the globe expect that visual design will be even more important to the success of their businesses over the next decade.

The world around us is changing at an exponential pace. Our attention spans are reducing to micro-seconds day by day as we are fed content through innumerable sources around us from the television to our smartphones. Our lifestyles are inclined towards visual aesthetics more than ever before. We view the world more through our camera lenses than our other senses. Part of it is sad but most of it is revolutionary. 



Visual design has never been a more powerful tool offering us freedom and opportunity to inform, express, evoke, educate, promote and make our lives more interesting than ever before. Graphic design has been around us since the inception of time. From symbols on walls, paintings in caves, carvings on artifacts to the modern-day packaging, posters, brochures, advertisements, social media, web layouts, app designs, and a lot more, visual design has been true to its purpose of creative communication. We all are essentially storytellers. 

All of us have different stories to communicate to one another. At times we love to share our exciting stories by narrating them to our friends but often we wish to share these stories with the whole world in an attractive and emotive manner. Here, graphic design plays a significant role.

Graphic designers are people like you and me who have devoted their lives to the noble service of helping individuals and businesses to craft their stories to the world in the most expressive manners. It takes years of study and practice and failure and learnings to achieve a decent sense of graphic design and this is the reason why it is the most sought-after profession in the modern world of media and content. This book is an intensive guide to either begin your career in graphic design or to reinforce your existing graphic skills by offering you a window into the basics and advanced concepts behind numerous design decisions. If you have no prior experience with graphic design but wish to taste the creative waters of this design career, this book is a perfect journey for you to take as soon as possible. 

You might be worried about graphic design being associated with artistic skills of painting, sketching or whatnot but let me assure you, a designer is not at all an artist. There’s a mile-long wall between the fields of art and design. 

Designers are problem solvers and artists are talented individuals who express their own style to the world. Designers work for the enhancement of their user’s experience and to bridge the gap in communication. Art can be subjective but design cannot afford to be. So, don’t worry if your artistic skills are not extraordinary, you can still be a visual designer.

How will this book benefit you? It’s not at all like your everyday design college reference book. The book begins by covering topics ranging from design careers, benefits of sketching, media for presenting design, fundamentals of design, the creative brief and process, research and creating ideas, and production. Then it picks up each of the three pillars of graphic design i.e., layout, typography, and color, and digs deep into the fundamental concepts, guidelines, mistakes, and practical applications for a holistic understanding of design. A unique feature of this book is the 112 square graphics created to assist the written text within the paragraphs because you know, an image with text is 500% more impactful than plain rambling in text. You’ll realize this fact when you’ll finally become a successful visual designer after reading this book. Now let’s begin the exciting journey to the wonderland of visual design!



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Building Your Brand Assets: Brand Name, Story, Color, Typography, Tone of Voice, Imagery, Illustrations, Iconography, Style Guide


Your brand is and should be unique. It should stand out from others in a similar business or service. What makes your brand so different? It's the unique promise and value that you provide to your customers and clients. But how do you communicate this to your potential network? Through branding.
Like humans, brands have a character. Like us, they need to have a style, a dressing sense, and a style of communication to grab people's attention. In this book, we'll get into the depth of each of the brand assets from the brand name, story, logo, colors, typography, tone of voice, imagery, iconography, and illustrations to compiling them in a holy brand style guide. It'll be an exciting journey.




If you're a brand strategist, marketer, brand agency team member, at a manager post, a business owner, or an entrepreneur looking to establish your business as a brand, this is for you. If you're a young design or business graduate struggling to understand the practical applications of your theory classes in Branding and Marketing, this is for you. If you're a 9-5 stuck employee at a stressful job and willing to set up your own business or brand but don't have the capital to invest in building your brand, this will help you construct it.

In the last book, 'BYOB Building Your Own Brand', we talked about the first steps towards creating a brand strategy, value proposition statement, brand character, and the various types of brand logos. This book is a continuation of where we left in the last book. Although you can read it without going through the previous book, I would recommend you to read it too if you wish to gain a better foundation in brand building. Here we will understand what a particular brand asset is used for, how it needs to be created, where it should be used, and how to make it a successful brand asset that evokes a strong brand recall in the minds of your audience.

All the chapters are supported by examples from brands all over the world. The last chapter focuses on compiling the valuable brand assets in the form of a style guide with guidelines, descriptions, information, standards, best practices, do's and don'ts, and instructions for anyone who will be involved in brand-building exercises.

A strong visual identity is a need for a modern brand to evolve in this digital era and a necessity for a legacy brand to continue growing business. Over 90% of businesses around the world today depend on highly aesthetical and meaningful visual communication. How do we achieve this? With all the visual and emotional clutter filling the digital space and no one really looking at your advertisements anymore? How do we attract people and hook them to your brand?

We do it by providing them value. Value through an exclusive visual means of communication. Obviously, there's something particular about how your brand dresses up to perform in front of your audience. These accessories it wears are your brand's assets and, in this book, you'll discover how to make them.



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BYOB Building Your Own Brand: Branding for Designers, Brand Strategy, Identity Assets, Logo Design, Blogging & Marketing


Who is this book for?
This book is tailored for professionals in the fields of graphic design, branding design, visual design, ui/ux, business administration, brand management, public relations, architecture, interior design, content marketing and communication design. It is also an informative read for young design and business graduates or students who wish to explore the world of branding. Lastly, this book is also crafted in a simple non-design language for people from all scores of life to explore the world of branding and how brands are established over time.

How to read this book?
You can skim through the entire book to find your exact interest and read it separately. You can also read the book in a continuous flow to start by understanding the need for branding and then to creating brand assets.

What value will this book bring you?
You'll realise branding is not just the brand logo, some business cards or your letterhead. You'll realise the amount of time and effort that goes into building a powerful brand that creates a legacy. You'll realize that branding for products is totally different from service or design. Lastly, you'll come across some definitive actionable steps to build your own brand.


What's in part 2 of this book?
This book ends at a cliffhanger note by creating brand logos but we will explore how to curate brand colors, typography, tone of voice, imagery, illustrations, iconography, patterns and a lot more in the next part. We will also understand how brand attributes should be reflected in all the brand assets such as packaging, marketing collaterals, website, social media and more. We shall also go through a case study of establishing the brand of an architecture studio through dialogues and discussions.




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Dear Me, Letters to my younger self

It's the year 2021 and we're all stuck inside our homes under our blankets. An insane pandemic hit the world in March 2020 with the spread of a highly contagious virus called coronavirus or Covid 19. It has transformed our lives like never before.

It was 2 a.m. in the night. It was just me alone with my night lamp, a cup of green tea, a fountain pen, my beloved black diary, and an antique typewriter gifted to me by my grandfather.

As I read the last words of his letter, the ink vanished into thin air leaving me baffled yet excited to get on with my mission. I kept my pen and paper aside and dragged the typewriter towards me. I closed my eyes and went into a short flashback of my entire life until now. My face went from smiles into sadness to grin to laughter to remorse as I remembered all the precious moments and regrets. My fingers grazed all over the alphabet keys while I kept my eyes closed and my emotions got the best of me. I took a deep breath and started typing the first letter to my younger self.

Imagine if you were allowed to send letters to your own past? What would you do? What would you love to change about your past that would impact your today?!

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