Designing Mobile Apps Tips And Techniques

This eBook provides you with some useful tips and tricks, regardless of whether you're taking your first steps in app design or looking to adopt some best practices from industry pros. To help you broadly position your future app, our authors cover the three biggest platforms: iOS, Android and Windows Mobile. Some step-by-step coding tutorials will take you by the hand, as will exciting new techniques that go beyond the usual. In addition, the eBook features handy cross-platform topics such as prototyping, as well as a field guide to app testing, and advice on marketing your app. TABLE OF CONTENTS - A Guide To iOS App Development For Web Designers - Get Started Writing iOS Apps With RubyMotion - Mobile Prototyping With Axure RP - Creating Realistic iPhone Games With Cocos2D - Mobile Design Practices For Android: Tips And Techniques - C-Swipe: An Ergonomic Solution To Navigation Fragmentation On Android - Windows Phone Design For Developers - A Field Guide To Mobile App Testing - How To Succeed With Your Mobile App

Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You'll also explore the more advanced capabilities of the mobile web, including markup, advanced styling techniques, and mobile Ajax. If you're a web designer, web developer, information architect, product manager, usability professional, content publisher, or an entrepreneur new to the mobile web, Mobile Design and Development provides you with the knowledge you need to work with this rapidly developing technology. Mobile Design and Development will help you: Understand how the mobile ecosystem works, how it differs from other mediums, and how to design products for the mobile context Learn the pros and cons of building native applications sold through operators or app stores versus mobile websites or web apps Work with flows, prototypes, usability practices, and screen-size-independent visual designs Use and test cross-platform mobile web standards for older devices, as well as devices that may be available in the future Learn how to justify a mobile product by building it on a budget

Embarking on a career (or hobby) in app design can be intimidating, especially when information is scattered, confusing and hard to find. Designing Mobile Apps is a complete guide for those getting started, providing step-by-step details on how to design useful, attractive mobile applications. Authors Javier “Simón” Cuello and José Vittone share their experiences in the world of app design, revealing tricks of the trade based on their work at companies like Yahoo, Zara and Telefónica. Apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone How do operating systems differ? How does one go about transferring from one OS to another? Designing Mobile Apps answers these questions and more, using real-life examples and visual comparisons. The Complete Design Process From the initial concept to app store publication, Designing Mobile Apps covers the full app creation process in simple, easy-to-use terms. It includes numerous examples and doesn’t use a single line of code. Interviews with Top Professionals Designing Mobile Apps contains interviews with leading designers and developers, including Loren Brichter, Irene Pereyra, Erik Spiekermann and Dustin Mierau. They share the secrets they’ve learned while working at some of the best companies in the world. Written Especially for Designers and Developers Not sure how to prepare your design for the programmer? Know how to program, but fuzzy on the details in making your app truly appealing and easy to use? With Designing Mobile Apps, designers and developers can learn all they need to know to work together and create a successful app.

In 2007, Apple released the iPhone. With this release came tools as revolutionary as the internet was to businesses and individuals back in the mid- and late-nineties: Apps. Much like websites drove (and still drive) business, so too do apps drive sales, efficiencies and communication between people. But also like web design and development, in its early years and iterations, guidelines and best practices for apps are few and far between. Designing Apps for Success provides web/app designers and developers with consistent app design practices that result in timely, appropriate, and efficiently capable apps. This book covers application lifecycle management that designers and developers use when creating apps for themselves or the entities that hired them. From the early discussions with a company as to how to what kind of app they want, to storyboarding, to developing cross platform, to troubleshooting, to publishing, Designing Apps for Success gives a taut, concise, and pragmatic roadmap from the beginning of the process all the way to the end. Developers and designers will learn not only best practices on how to design an app but how to streamline the process while not losing any quality on the end result. Other topics in this book include: Case studies that best showcase the development process at work (or not at work). Global examples of apps developed all over the world. Future proofing your apps Post-publishing: Promoting and marketing your apps and keeping it relevant. Consistent app design practices for consistently successful results.

Embarking on a career (or hobby) in app design can be intimidating, especially when information is scattered, confusing and hard to find. Designing Mobile Apps is a complete guide for those getting started, providing step-by-step details on how to design useful, attractive mobile applications. Authors Javier "Sim�n" Cuello and Jos� Vittone share their experiences in the world of app design, revealing tricks of the trade based on their work at companies like Yahoo, Zara and Telef�nica. Apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone How do operating systems differ? How does one go about transferring from one OS to another? Designing Mobile Apps answers these questions and more, using real-life examples and visual comparisons. The Complete Design Process From the initial concept to app store publication, Designing Mobile Apps covers the full app creation process in simple, easy-to-use terms. It includes numerous examples and doesn't use a single line of code. Interviews with Top Professionals Designing Mobile Apps contains interviews with leading designers and developers, including Loren Brichter, Irene Pereyra, Erik Spiekermann and Dustin Mierau. They share the secrets they've learned while working at some of the best companies in the world. Written Especially for Designers and Developers Not sure how to prepare your design for the programmer? Know how to program, but fuzzy on the details in making your app truly appealing and easy to use? With Designing Mobile Apps, designers and developers can learn all they need to know to work together and create a successful app.

Design User-Friendly, Intuitive Smartphone and Tablet Apps for Any Platform Mobile apps should feel natural and intuitive, and users should understand them quickly and easily. This means that effective interaction and interface design is crucial. However, few mobile app developers (or even designers) have had adequate training in these areas. Essential Mobile Interaction Design fills this gap, bringing together proven principles and techniques you can use in your next app–for any platform, target device, or user. This tutorial requires virtually no design or programming knowledge. Even if you’ve never designed a mobile app before, this guide teaches you the key skills that lead to the best results. Cameron Banga and Josh Weinhold help you master the mindset, processes, and vocabulary of mobile interaction design, so you can start making better choices right away. They guide you through the entire design process, demystifying issues that arise at every stage. The authors share hard-won lessons from years of experience developing more than one hundred mobile apps for clients and customers of every type. They cover important issues that platform-specific guides often overlook, including internationalization, accessibility, hybrid apps, sandboxing, and what to do after release. This guide shows you how to Think through your designs, instead of just throwing together UI elements Allow an intuitive design flow to emerge from your app Sketch and wireframe apps more effectively Reflect key differences among smartphones, tablets, and desktops Design for visual appeal without compromising usability Work effectively with programmers Make sure your apps are accessible to everyone Get usable feedback, and understand what it’s telling you Learn valuable lessons from today’s most successful apps Refresh your designs in new apps and future versions Discover new tools for designing more successfully Packed with iOS and AndroidTM examples, Essential Mobile Interaction Design offers dozens of tips and solutions that will be equally useful on today’s platforms and on whatever comes next. Extensive resources are available at cameronbanga.com/EMIDbook.

(The book interior is Black & White, also available in Color) Embarking on a career (or hobby) in app design can be intimidating, especially when information is scattered, confusing and hard to find. Designing Mobile Apps is a complete guide for those getting started, providing step-by-step details on how to design useful, attractive mobile applications. Authors Javier "Simón" Cuello and José Vittone share their experiences in the world of app design, revealing tricks of the trade based on their work at companies like Yahoo, Zara and Telefónica. Apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone How do operating systems differ? How does one go about transferring from one OS to another? Designing Mobile Apps answers these questions and more, using real-life examples and visual comparisons. The Complete Design Process From the initial concept to app store publication, Designing Mobile Apps covers the full app creation process in simple, easy-to-use terms. It includes numerous examples and doesn't use a single line of code. Interviews with Top Professionals Designing Mobile Apps contains interviews with leading designers and developers, including Loren Brichter, Irene Pereyra, Erik Spiekermann and Dustin Mierau. They share the secrets they've learned while working at some of the best companies in the world. Written Especially for Designers and Developers Not sure how to prepare your design for the programmer? Know how to program, but fuzzy on the details in making your app truly appealing and easy to use? With Designing Mobile Apps, designers and developers can learn all they need to know to work together and create a successful app.

Learn modern app design with Figma!App Design Apprentice guides you through designing modern mobile apps using fundamental design principles. If designing better UI and UX for mobile apps sounds difficult and time-consuming, don't worry, we've got you covered.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for intermediate iOS and Android developers who already know the basics of mobile app development but want to also learn how to design apps that look good.Topics Covered in App Design ApprenticeFigma: Learn the basics of a modern design tool.App Teardowns: Analyze and pick out the best parts of other well-designed apps.Wireframes: Explore what makes good app user flows.Reusable Components: Learn to create and use reusable components such as buttons and toolbars.Typography: Basics for communicating hierarchy, order, and emphasis.Color: How to create visual styles and palettes.Transitions and Animations: Create different transitions between screens to communicate relationships.Design Systems: Best practices for creating good app experience in each ecosystem.One thing you can count on: After reading this book, you'll have the knowledge needed to design modern mobile apps that are functional and look good.