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With hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available today, your app has to capture users immediately. This book provides practical techniques to help you catch - and keep - their attention. You'll learn core principles for designing effective user interfaces, along with a set of common patterns for interaction design on all types of mobile devices.
Mobile design specialists Steven Hoober and Eric Berkman have collected and researched 76 best practices for everything from composing pages and displaying information to the use of screens, lights, and sensors. Each pattern includes a discussion of the design problem and solution, along with variations, interaction and presentation details, and antipatterns. Compose pages so that information is easy to locate and manipulate Provide labels and visual cues appropriate for your app's users Use information control widgets to help users quickly access details Take advantage of gestures and other sensors Apply specialized methods to prevent errors and the loss of user-entered data Enable users to easily make selections, enter text, and manipulate controls Use screens, lights, haptics, and sounds to communicate your message and increase user satisfaction
"Designing Mobile Interfaces is another stellar addition to O'Reilly's essential interface books. Every mobile designer will want to have this thorough book on their shelf for reference." - Dan Saffer, Author of Designing Gestural Interfaces
List of contents
Preface
Page
Components
Chapter 2: Display of Information
Chapter 3: Control and Confirmation
Chapter 4: Revealing More Information
Widgets
Chapter 5: Lateral Access
Chapter 6: Drilldown
Chapter 7: Labels and Indicators
Chapter 8: Information Controls
Input and Output
Chapter 9: Text and Character Input
Chapter 10: General Interactive Controls
Chapter 11: Input and Selection
Chapter 12: Audio and Vibration
Chapter 13: Screens, Lights, and Sensors
Appendixes
Mobile Radiotelephony
Design Templates and UI Guidelines
Mobile Typography
Human Factors
References
About the Authors
Colophon
About the author
Steven Hoober has been documenting design process for all of his 15 year design career, and entered mobile full time in 2007 when he joined Little Springs Design. His work includes Designing by Drawing and he is a frequent contributor to the Little Springs Design blog. Steven has led projects on security, account management, content distribution, and communications services for numerous products, from construction supplies to hospital recordkeeping. Before coming to Little Springs, Steven spent eight years at U.S. mobile operator Sprint. Eric Berkman is a Designer at Little Springs Design, a leading mobile UX design agency. Eric received his Master's degree in Interaction Design as well as his bachelor's from the University of Kansas. From Coca-Cola to the City of Lawrence Transit System, Eric's career has encompassed such diverse companies such as Miller Brewing Company and Bristol-Merys Squibb. His expertise and interests focus on a user-centric, participatory design approach to create meaningful individual, social, and cultural interactions.
Summary
This practical guide teaches you the core principles for designing effective mobile user interfaces, and helps you get started by providing more than 40 proven UI patterns for mobile websites and applications.
