The Mobile Book (By Smashing Magazine)

The Mobile Book (By Smashing Magazine)

Josh Clark, Jeremy Keith, Peter-Paul Koch, Stephanie Rieger, Trent Walton, Brad Frost, Dave Olsen, Dennis Kardys

Language: English

Pages: 362

ISBN: 2:00115063

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Quick Overview

Our brand new printed Mobile Book features the most important things that you need to know as a designer, developer or mobile strategist for your websites. You’ll dive deep into the peculiarities of the mobile industry, explore responsive design strategy, design patterns and optimization techniques, learn about wireframing and prototyping for mobile as well as the guidelines for designing with gestures and touch. As an extra, the book provides insights into the popular platforms such as iOS, Windows Phone etc. as well as introduces developing and debugging techniques for advanced HTML5 Web applications.

Table of Contents

- Foreword by Jeremy Keith

PART I—THE MOBILE LANDSCAPE
- What’s Going On In Mobile? by Peter-Paul Koch
- The Future Of Mobile by Stephanie Rieger

PART II—RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN
- Responsive Design Strategy by Trent Walton
- Responsive Design Patterns by Brad Frost
- Optimizing For Mobile by Dave Olson

PART III—UX DESIGN FOR MOBILE
- Hands-On Design For Mobile by Dennis Kardys
- Designing For Touch by Josh Clark

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again. Besides, the growth of non-Google Android branches meant that Google’s attempt at centralization had failed anyway. I see this as a victory for the device vendors and a defeat for Google. Device vendors got what they wanted, to the detriment of Google and developers. Basically, Google lost control of Android and won’t ever regain it. Windows Phone Compare the Android story to Windows Phone. From the outset, Microsoft was very strict in prescribing exactly what kind of hardware its OS

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buttons), and you can swipe to the next and previous articles from article pages. •Google Images lets you swipe through search results. You can definitely do more than that in the browser, but it’s harder work. A fun example is Browser Ninja,10 a clone of the game app Fruit Ninja, in which pieces of fruit (or, in this case, browser icons) fly up in the air, and you swipe the screen to slice them. So you can build multi-touch gestures from the primitive touch events JavaScript gives you, though

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