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Applications / Prototyping / Tools — 372 Comments
21
Sep 10

App Inventor for Android

You can build many different types of apps with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android’s text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior.

Get started:

News / Tools — 750 Comments
31
Aug 10

Mobile market overview via QuirksMode

I found excellent comparison of mobile devices browser platforms. You can customize table header as you like.  Here is my comparison:

Tools — 564 Comments
22
Aug 10

Mobile Graded Browser Support | jQuery Mobile

Mobile Graded Browser Support | jQuery Mobile.

Guidelines / Tools / User research — 1,047 Comments
1
Aug 10

UX Basis

UX Basis is way of combining the numerous tools available to us and forming a unified process that sits within a digital agency and it’s other important departments – creative, tech and client services. The beauty about the model is it is fully adaptive to any clients needs, can fit with tech’s agile process and incorporates creative and development at key stages in the creation process.

Applications / Guidelines / Tools — 492 Comments
21
Jul 10

Mobile UI Guidelines

Here are links to mobile UI guidelines

Applications / Prototyping / Tools — 424 Comments
21
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

Guidelines / mobile usability testing / Tools — 766 Comments
19
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

Applications / Tools — 543 Comments
8
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

Ilium Software Screen Capture

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