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Designing For Android Tablets

From Dan McKenzie
August 9th, 2011
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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 ...

Designing For Android

From Dan McKenzie
June 30th, 2011
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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 ...

A User-Centered Approach To Web Design For Mobile Devices

From Lyndon Cerejo
May 2nd, 2011
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For the past few years, we’ve heard pundits declaring each year as “year of the mobile Web”; each year trying to sound more convincing than the previous. Whether 2011 will be the real “year of the mobile” remains to be seen, but what is indisputable is the fact that the ...

Mobile Auto-Suggest on Steroids: Tap-Ahead Design Pattern

From Greg Nudelman
April 27th, 2011
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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, ...

Making It a Mobile Web App

From Kim Pimmel
January 26th, 2011
69 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, ...

A Study of Trends in Mobile Design

From Alexander Dawson
December 2nd, 2010
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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 ...

How To Build A Mobile Website

From Jon Raasch
November 3rd, 2010
127 Comments

Over the past few years, mobile web usage has considerably increased to the point that web developers and designers can no longer afford to ignore it. In wealthy countries, the shift is being fueled by faster mobile broadband connections and cheaper data service. However, a large increase has also ...

Android GUI PSD Vector Kit

From Smashing Editorial Team
August 18th, 2009
43 Comments

In this post we release Android GUI Starter Kit, a set that comes with several button elements as well as different interface options for Android GUI. This set was designed by Pavel Maček and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Android GUI PSD is based on elements of Android ...