Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
While iPhone and Android battled it out, Microsoft took a step back to look at the biggest problems in the smartphone landscape before setting out on its latest project, Windows Phone 7. What resulted was a platform that innovated on smartphone usability and introduced a new underdog to the app playing field. We talked with Microsoft evangelist Chris Koenig about how Microsoft did it.
Mutual Mobile’s first Android Design Guidelines were downloaded thousands of times and gained praise from Mobile Crunch and more. Now this updated version takes on the OS poised to change the way we think of tablet computers: Honeycomb.
We aren’t simply developing software, we’re creating tools that help people through their journeys, conflicts and personal issues. Without knowing the stories of users, feature lists and personas are useless. Storyboarding is the first step to creating mobile products that will weave themselves into people’s lives.
App icons give a tiny amount of real estate to convey everything about an app. Smart, eye-catching design is everything. Watch as Mutual Mobile’s Senior Visual Designer Jef Leon rebuilds a 3D iPhone icon in under an hour in this time-lapse video.
Our Android Human Interface Guidelines were born out of our own struggles with the Android platform. These guidelines are a living document and will continue to evolve with the platform.
One of the common mistakes we see in mobile application design is approaching it as a web design project. Although it may look like a tiny computer screen, designing mobile applications is fundamentally different endeavor. Here are a few key distinctions between web and mobile.
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