Category Archives: Mobile UX

Stanford Talk: Mobile UX Design

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Jeremy Lyon shares his personal perspective on how to approach the design of mobile applications and provides some examples. Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview — Engadget

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Windows Phone 7 in-depth preview — Engadget. Continue reading

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Android’s Game-Changer? – Motley Fool

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Ars TechnicaAndroid's Game-Changer?Motley Fool… as its planned music service, might be to the detriment of a better user experience that would keep early Android adopters locked into the platform. …The Future Of RIM and BlackBerryBerry Reporter… Continue reading

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Samsung Galaxy S review

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“The Samsung Galaxy S runs off Android 2.1, but it doesn’t just drop a vanilla version of the operating system in front of you. With tweaks, new features and hidden extras, the Galaxy S se… Continue reading

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PHOTO: Call Apple to have a FaceTime chat and learn

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Call Apple to have a FaceTime chat and learn a few things about your new iPhone 4. Great idea.

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Preview of Nokia’s New Symbian 4 OS

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Nokia has started circulating specifications and previews of its new Symbian^4 OS interface and interaction design (via Symbian.org). Some notable improvements include:

New interface layout and interaction structure (see diagrams below)
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iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle

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This is the first version of an OmniGraffle template for folks designing iPad apps. It’s not complete; we plan to update it as we’re working on our own designs.

Contains backgrounds, title bars, buttons, selectors, and other iPhone UI elements
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Designing for iPad: Reality Check

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Over the last two months we have been working on several iPad projects: Two news applications, a social network and a word processor. We worked on iPad projects without ever having touched an iPad. One client asked us to “start working on that tablet t… Continue reading

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‘Imaginary’ Interface Could Replace Screens and Keyboards

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Researchers are experimenting with a new interface system for mobile devices that could replace the screen and even the keyboard with gestures supported by our visual memory. Continue reading

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CSS Hover Controls On the iPhone

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Here’s a simple technique to get hover controls working on the iPhone. Hover controls are links and buttons that appear when you hover your mouse over a a target area and so are useful for a lot of secondary actions like delete and edit links—a way to simplify your interface.

The iPhone has a touch screen, so you can’t really hover over anything, but the following technique will still work. Instead of hovering, you’ll have to click on a given area for the controls to show up. This area will have to be a link, either an inline link or a block link (block will work better because you can make the click area larger)…

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