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Not Your Parent’s Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones

From Tim R. Todish
October 6th, 2011
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In your pocket right now is the most powerful “remote control” (as Drew Diskin put it) that has ever existed. It is no ordinary remote control. It can harness everything that all of the previous mass media (television, radio, Internet, etc.) can do. People aren’t using them just for simple ...

From Monitor To Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters With CSS

From Ros Hodgekiss
August 18th, 2011
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HTML email has a reputation for being a particularly tough design medium. So tough, in fact, that many designers regard coding and testing even the simplest email design to be almost as bad as fixing display quirks in Internet Explorer 6, and only slightly better than a tooth extraction. So, ...

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 ...

Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies

From Smashing Editorial Team
July 22nd, 2011
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Back in January, we published an article on responsive design, “Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Use It.” Responsive design continues to get a lot of attention, but considering how different it is from the “traditional” way of designing websites, it can be a bit overwhelming for ...

Seven Guidelines For Designing High-Performance Mobile User Experiences

From Ivo Weevers
July 18th, 2011
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A positive first impression is essential to relationships. People look for trust and integrity, and they expect subsequent encounters to reflect and reinforce their first impression. The same principles apply to brands and their products. Design plays an important role in building lasting relationships with end users and, thus, in ...

Picking A Mobile Support Strategy For Your Website

From Matt Lawson
July 11th, 2011
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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 ...

Getting Ahead Of The Curve: Branding On Mobile Devices And Desktop Browsers

From Michael Tuck
May 12th, 2011
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According to Brandweek, “brands are the express checkout for people living their lives at ever increasing speed. This article shows you how, and why, to add “app”-like icons to your sites for several mobile and desktop browser displays, to clearly and elegantly identify your site with an icon that stands ...

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, ...

Designing For The Future Web

From James Gardner
March 29th, 2011
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Designing for the future Web. That’s a big subject. Where do we start when we’re talking about something that isn’t here yet? In this article, we’ll look at what the future Web might look like and how we can adapt our current skills to this new environment, as well as ...