Posts Tagged ‘Android’
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Brave New WorldDesigning For A Maturing Android
- May 8th, 2013
- 35 Comments
Android is huge: 480 million people currently use Android devices, and 1 million new devices are activated daily. This means that every three weeks, the number of people who activate new Android devices is equal to the entire population of Australia. (Recent studies by Nielsen show that more Android devices ...
Read more...Design PatternsC-Swipe: An Ergonomic Solution To Navigation Fragmentation On Android
- March 25th, 2013
- 31 Comments
There are 3,997 different Android devices. Your navigation should work with all of them. C-Swipe can help: It is an alternative navigation pattern for tablets and mobile devices that is novel, ergonomic and localized. This article provides a detailed walk-through of the design and code and provides a downloadable mini-app so ...
Read more...A Definitive Guide To The Android Carousel Design Pattern
- February 1st, 2013
- 12 Comments
One of the best patterns for browsing a small collection of featured products is the carousel. Unfortunately, many mobile app implementations do not offer an engaging or satisfying carousel experience and are not effective at driving conversions. In this article, we’ll use the analogy of a real-world amusement park carousel to ...
Read more...Mobile Design Practices For Android: Tips And Techniques
- July 26th, 2012
- 21 Comments
Android is an attractive platform for developers, but not all designers share our enthusiasm. Making an app look and feel great across hundreds of devices with different combinations of screen size, pixel density and aspect ratio is no mean feat. Android’s diversity provides plenty of challenges, but creating apps that ...
Read more...Getting To Know The Android Platform: Building, Testing And Distributing Apps
- June 1st, 2012
- 31 Comments
When iOS started to gain momentum, soon after the first iPhone launched, many businesses started to pay attention to apps. The number of apps for iOS grew exponentially, and every company, big and small, rushed to create their own app to support their business. For some time, iOS was the ...
Read more...Designing For Android Tablets
- August 9th, 2011
- 32 Comments
More than ever, designers are being asked to create experiences for a variety of mobile devices. As tablet adoption increases and we move into the post-PC world, companies will compete for users’ attention with the quality of their experience. Designing successful apps for Android tablets requires not only a great ...
Read more...Designing For Android
- June 30th, 2011
- 56 Comments
For designers, Android is the elephant in the room when it comes to app design. As much as designers would like to think it’s an iOS world in which all anyones cares about are iPhones, iPads and the App Store, nobody can ignore that Android currently has the majority of ...
Read more...Making It a Mobile Web App
- January 26th, 2011
- 74 Comments
Ask any interactive agency nowadays what their clients are asking for when they need a mobile experience — the answer will inevitably be “an iPhone and/or an iPad app.” Native Apple apps are a hot commodity, and in today’s mobile application ecosystem, mobile web apps are not sexy. In fact, ...
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