Five years ago, the mobile landscape was in many ways, a world apart from where we are now. Here is an article from Mashable about mobile evolution
July, 2010
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Jul 10
Printable sketch templates for mobile applications
iPhone UX Sketch Templates by Erik Loehfelm
At the beginning of a mobile development project I always create the sketches first. While sketching can be done on a blank paper, it’s much better to use a sketch template. For me that is the best and most productive way to work on and improve my ideas before application development begins. This way I won’t pay too much attention to some details that should be taken care of later, but stay focused on general layout and functionality. Take a look at sketch templates
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Jul 10
Nokia User experience training materials.
Nokia has published a UX Driven Development for Education v1.0 Beta
I must say they must have hired someone with UX background for this, because it is very good. Altough they didn’t write much about UCD and Agile in this document.
Contents:
- What is User Experience? Lecture 1
- UX Concepting Lecture 2
- Interaction Design Lecture 3
- Graphic Design Lecture 4
- UX Evaluation Lecture 5
Documents are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License.
Download 13 MB Zip file
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Jul 10
How to make screenshots on smartphones
List of Freeware applications that allows you to capture screenshots on your smartphone and save them to a file or send them to friends or to your desktop computer. This is very useful when you do research for competitive applications.
Symbian OS
For Mobile phones running with Symbian OS, you can download for free are:
Iphone
Screen Capture on iPhone is built-in feature on firmware 2.0 and above. Here is how you can take screenshots.
To take a screen shot, hold down the home button and then push the top button. The screen will flash and the resulting image will be placed on your camera roll. From there, you can sync it back to your computer, e-mail it to friends, or do anything else you can do with any other photo in your camera roll.
Windows Mobile
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Streaming tools for your mobile
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Jul 10
Nokia viNe
Nokia viNe is a breakthrough mobile application that records people’s photos, videos, songs, texts, voice messages, and bookmarks on a multimedia map of their life. It’s an easy way to relive, search, and share events as they happened. To start a vine, people simply load the application on their GPS-enabled device, press record, and go about their day. As they explore, each photo they snap, video they shoot, and song they listen to appears on their vine in the spot where it was taken or played. Think of Nokia viNe as the ultimate travelogue.