Our latest Pocket Guide ebooks are now available to buy – and you’re in for a treat!

As it's Bonfire night here in the UK, we thought we’d launch Collection 4 with a bang! From today, you can buy and download Front-end Style Guides by Anna Debenham and International User Research by Chui Chui Tan for £2 each. Or you can buy the whole of Collection 4 for £6 and receive the next two ebooks by Andy Davies and Colin McFarland when they’re released in a few weeks.

As a research professional, I wish I'd been able to read Chui Chui's book before now. My research work for our design studio, Mark Boulton Design, often involves researching users and potential audiences across the globe. Understanding the subtle differences between people from diverse cultures and backgrounds has become vital in allowing us to optimise our designs to meet the often, very differing expectations of users. In this book, Chui Chui provides practical advice on where to start, what to do and what to look for when conducting international research. If you’re a global business working with other global businesses or customers, you need to read this book.

Web design deliverables are becoming more abstracted and teams more broadly distributed. Style guides are becoming important design documents. At Mark Boulton Design we work a lot with style guides for clients: creating them, working from them, extending or adding to them. We’ve needed this book on more than one occasion! Style guides vary in size, quality and, ultimately, usefulness. In her Pocket Guide, Anna provides us with some clear, no-nonsense guidance on what our style guides should look like. It’s packed with practical tips, whether you’re starting from scratch or assembling one for an existing site. If you make websites for a living, you'll need this book.

Working with both Anna and Chui Chui to produce their new books has been an absolute pleasure. They are two of the hardest working, smartest women on the web today. Both books are full of their distilled knowledge and practical advice. Available in PDF, ePub and mobi formats, you can read them on any device you choose, wherever you want. You'd be hard pressed to find a better way to spend a few pounds. What are you waiting for?