Posts Tagged ‘Design Patterns’
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Guidelines and Best PracticesThe Elements Of The Mobile User Experience
- July 12th, 2012
- 22 Comments
Mobile users and mobile usage are growing. With more users doing more on mobile, the spotlight is on how to improve the individual elements that together create the mobile user experience. The mobile user experience encompasses the user’s perceptions and feelings before, during and after their interaction with your mobile presence ...
Read more...Essential Design Patterns For Mobile Banking
- July 5th, 2012
- 25 Comments
Despite a great deal of mobile innovation, many creators of financial apps still copy their interface patterns from the desktop Web, even though these patterns are not as well suited to the mobile space. Small screens, custom controls, divided attention and fat fingers demand different thinking when designing for mobile. In ...
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...Picking A Mobile Support Strategy For Your Website
- July 11th, 2011
- 30 Comments
The number of people browsing the Web from a mobile device has more than tripled since 2009, and it is sure to continue growing, with browser platforms such as iOS and Android offering mobile browser support that is almost identical to what we have come to expect from a desktop ...
Read more...Mobile Auto-Suggest on Steroids: Tap-Ahead Design Pattern
- April 27th, 2011
- 41 Comments
In contrast to desktop Web search, auto-suggest on mobile devices is subject to two additional limitations: typing avoidance and slower bandwidth. The new patent-pending design pattern, Tap-Ahead, uses continuous refinement to create an intuitive, authentically mobile auto-suggest solution. This helps dramatically reduce the amount of typing needed to enter queries, ...
Read more...A Study of Trends in Mobile Design
- December 2nd, 2010
- 28 Comments
This article is a part of our new eBook Mobile Design For iPhone And iPad (just $9.90). The eBook presents articles on professional design for the iPhone and iPad, including guidelines for the development of mobile web pages. Available in PDF, Mobipocket and ePUB formats. The industry has evolved in many ...
Read more...iPhone App Designs Reviewed: Critique Board and Lessons Learned
- September 15th, 2010
- 54 Comments
Some time ago I started a mobile app design review section on our company’s website. The idea behind this “Crit Board” was simple: if mobile developers want to create apps that people want to buy, they’ll need help with design and usability. But most of the time they can’t afford ...
Read more...iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Disregard Of Context
- November 15th, 2009
- 31 Comments
The iPhone will always be part of a much bigger picture. How well you address human and environmental factors will greatly determine the success of your product. All too often, iPhone developers create products in isolation from their customers. In order to create really appealing applications, developers must stop ...
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