Download or read book Essentials of Mobile Handset Design written by Abhi Naha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what is involved in designing the world's most popular and advanced consumer product to date - the phone in your pocket. With this essential guide you will learn how the dynamics of the market, and the pace of technology innovation, constantly create new opportunities which design teams utilize to develop new products that delight and surprise us. Explore core technology building blocks, such as chipsets and software components, and see how these components are built together through the design lifecycle to create unique handset designs. Learn key design principles to reduce design time and cost, and best practice guidelines to maximize opportunities to create a successful product. A range of real-world case studies are included to illustrate key insights. Finally, emerging trends in the handset industry are identified, and the global impact those trends could have on future devices is discussed.
Download or read book Mobile Handset Design written by Sajal Kumar Das and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of mobile communication standards presents numerouschallenges in mobile handset design. Designers must continue toturn out handsets that maintain high device performance and airinterface compatibility, while at the same time shrink powerconsumption, form factors, and costs. Mobile Handset Design is uniquely written to equipprofessionals and students with a complete understanding of how amobile phone works, and teaches the skills to design the latestmobile handsets. Das walks readers through mobile phone operatingprinciples, system infrastructure, TDMA-FDMA-CDMA-OFDMA techniques,hardware anatomy, software and protocols, and internal modules,components, and circuits. He presents all problems associated withmobile wireless channels and recommends corresponding designsolutions to overcome those issues. Mobile RF front-end, digitalbaseband design techniques, and associated trade-offs are alsocovered. Das also discusses the productization aspects and reviewsnew research developments for different mobile phone systems overgenerations. Teaches basic working principles of legacy and 4G mobilesystems Vividly illustrates and explains all key components and theanatomy of mobile phones Explains all hardware and software blocks, from principle topractice to product Discusses key design attributes such as low power consumptionand slim form factors Moves through all topics in a systematic fashion for easycomprehension Presentation files with lecture notes available for instructoruse This book is essential for practicing software, hardware and RFdesign engineers and product managers working to create innovate,competitive handsets. Mobile Handset Design is also idealfor fresh graduates or experienced engineers who are new to themobile industry, and is well-suited for industry veterans as ahandy reference. Lecture materials for instructors available at ahref="http://www.wiley.com/go/dasmobile"www.wiley.com/go/dasmobile/a
Download or read book Essentials of Mobile Handset Design written by Abhi Naha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn from the experts what is involved in designing successful mobile phone products, based on real-world experience and industry know-how.
Download or read book Essentials Of Mobile Design written by and published by Smashing Magazine. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing for Mobile can be very complex: it requires many skills such as programming, usability, typography, creating applications. all of this without forgetting the necessary ingredient of visual appeal. This eBook: Essentials of Mobile Design, will give you an overview of the basic features you need to know for designing beautiful and useful Mobile interfaces and apps. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Not Your Parents Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones 2) Why We Shouldnt Make Separate Mobile Websites 3) How To Build A Mobile Website 4) Making It A Mobile Web App 5) A Study Of Trends In Mobile Design 6) How To Market Your Mobile Application 7) A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development 8) From Monitor To Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters With CSS 9) How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website 10) Creating Mobile Optimized Websites Using WordPress
Download or read book Essential Mobile Interaction Design written by Cameron Banga and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design User-Friendly, Intuitive Smartphone and Tablet Apps for Any Platform Mobile apps should feel natural and intuitive, and users should understand them quickly and easily. This means that effective interaction and interface design is crucial. However, few mobile app developers (or even designers) have had adequate training in these areas. Essential Mobile Interaction Design fills this gap, bringing together proven principles and techniques you can use in your next app–for any platform, target device, or user. This tutorial requires virtually no design or programming knowledge. Even if you’ve never designed a mobile app before, this guide teaches you the key skills that lead to the best results. Cameron Banga and Josh Weinhold help you master the mindset, processes, and vocabulary of mobile interaction design, so you can start making better choices right away. They guide you through the entire design process, demystifying issues that arise at every stage. The authors share hard-won lessons from years of experience developing more than one hundred mobile apps for clients and customers of every type. They cover important issues that platform-specific guides often overlook, including internationalization, accessibility, hybrid apps, sandboxing, and what to do after release. This guide shows you how to Think through your designs, instead of just throwing together UI elements Allow an intuitive design flow to emerge from your app Sketch and wireframe apps more effectively Reflect key differences among smartphones, tablets, and desktops Design for visual appeal without compromising usability Work effectively with programmers Make sure your apps are accessible to everyone Get usable feedback, and understand what it’s telling you Learn valuable lessons from today’s most successful apps Refresh your designs in new apps and future versions Discover new tools for designing more successfully Packed with iOS and AndroidTM examples, Essential Mobile Interaction Design offers dozens of tips and solutions that will be equally useful on today’s platforms and on whatever comes next. Extensive resources are available at cameronbanga.com/EMIDbook.
Download or read book Mobile Game Design Essentials written by Dr. Claudio Scolastici and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide.This book is for all game developers, designers, and hobbyists who want to create assets for mobile games
Download or read book Writing Mobile Code written by Ivo Salmre and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2005 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly essential guide for the many programmers writing - or thinking of writing - applications for the new generation of mobile devices.
Download or read book Digital Design Essentials written by Rajesh Lal and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through hundreds of photographs, this dynamic guide demonstrates how to expertly apply design principles in a variety of devices, desktops, web pages, mobile and other touchscreen devices.
Download or read book Mobile Design and Development written by Brian Fling and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You'll also explore the more advanced capabilities of the mobile web, including markup, advanced styling techniques, and mobile Ajax. If you're a web designer, web developer, information architect, product manager, usability professional, content publisher, or an entrepreneur new to the mobile web, Mobile Design and Development provides you with the knowledge you need to work with this rapidly developing technology. Mobile Design and Development will help you: Understand how the mobile ecosystem works, how it differs from other mediums, and how to design products for the mobile context Learn the pros and cons of building native applications sold through operators or app stores versus mobile websites or web apps Work with flows, prototypes, usability practices, and screen-size-independent visual designs Use and test cross-platform mobile web standards for older devices, as well as devices that may be available in the future Learn how to justify a mobile product by building it on a budget
Download or read book Designing Mobile Interfaces written by Steven Hoober and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Wireless World written by Barry Brown and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the massive growth of mobile technologies, very little research has been done on how these technologies influence human interaction. Most of the published work in this area focuses on technological aspects and not on the social implications the technology is having on society. This book aims to fill this gap by providing an overview of these issues. It identifies the major trends, discusses the main claims made about the mobile age, and looks at issues which affect design, usability and evaluation. This unique look at the mobile age provides many interesting and important insights and will appeal to anyone designing, testing, or studying mobile devices.
Download or read book Programming Mobile Devices written by Tommi Mikkonen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With forewords by Jan Bosch, Nokia and Antero Taivalsaari, Sun Microsystems. Learn how to programme the mobile devices of the future! The importance of mobile systems programming has emerged over the recent years as a new domain in software development. The design of software that runs in a mobile device requires that developers combine the rules applicable in embedded environment; memory-awareness, limited performance, security, and limited resources with features that are needed in workstation environment; modifiability, run-time extensions, and rapid application development. Programming Mobile Devices is a comprehensive, practical introduction to programming mobile systems. The book is a platform independent approach to programming mobile devices: it does not focus on specific technologies, and devices, instead it evaluates the component areas and issues that are common to all mobile software platforms. This text will enable the designer to programme mobile devices by mastering both hardware-aware and application-level software, as well as the main principles that guide their design. Programming Mobile Devices: Provides a complete and authoritative overview of programming mobile systems. Discusses the major issues surrounding mobile systems programming; such as understanding of embedded systems and workstation programming. Covers memory management, the concepts of applications, dynamically linked libraries, concurrency, handling local resources, networking and mobile devices as well as security features. Uses generic examples from JavaTM and Symbian OS to illustrate the principles of mobile device programming. Programming Mobile Devices is essential reading for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field as well as software developers, and programmers.
Download or read book Mobile Usability written by Jakob Nielsen and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we create a satisfactory user experience when limited to a small device? This new guide focuses on usability for mobile devices, primarily smartphones and touchphones, and covers such topics as developing a mobile strategy, designing for small screens, writing for mobile, usability comparisons, and looking toward the future. The book includes 228-full color illustrations to demonstrate the points. Based on expert reviews and international studies with participants ranging from students to early technology adopters and business people using websites on a variety of mobile devices, this guide offers a complete look at the landscape for a mobile world. Author Jakob Nielsen is considered one of the world's leading experts on Web usability. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Prioritizing Web Usability and the groundbreaking Designing Web Usability, which has sold more than 250,000 copies and has been translated in 22 languages.
Download or read book The Smartphone written by Elizabeth Woyke and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that journalist Elizabeth Woyke answers in this muckraking expose of the $241 billion industry that produces more than 700 million devices each year. In the tradition of The Coffee Book, The Sneaker Book, Oil, and Cigarettes, The Smartphone offers not only a step-by-step guide to how smartphones are designed and manufactured but also a bold exploration of the darker side of this massive industry, including the exploitation of labor, the disposal of electronic waste, and the underground networks that hack and smuggle smartphones. Featuring interviews with key figures in the development of the smartphone and expert assessments of the industry's main players--Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung--The Smartphone is the perfect introduction to this most personal of gadgets. Your smartphone will never look the same again.
Download or read book Mobile Web Design For Dummies written by Janine Warner and published by For Dummies. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect place to learn how to design Web sites for mobile devices! With the popularity of Internet access via cell phones and other mobile devices, Web designers now have to consider as many as eight operating systems, several browsers, and a slew of new devices as they plan a new site, a new interface, or a new sub-site. This easy-to-follow friendly book guides you through this brave new world with a clear look at the fundamentals and offers practical techniques and tricks you may not have considered. Explores all issues to consider in planning a mobile site Covers the tools needed for mobile design, in particular XHTML and CSS Shows you how to plan for multimedia, e-commerce, and marketing your site, including adding audio, video, and social networking Provides real-world examples and tips to help you avoid common pitfalls If you're contemplating Web design in a mobile world, start first with this practical guide.
Download or read book Mobile First written by Luke Wroblewski and published by Book Apart. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our industry's long wait for the complete, strategic guide to mobile web design is finally over. Former Yahoo! design architect and cocreator of Bagcheck Luke Wroblewski knows more about mobile experience than the rest of us, and packs all he knows into this entertaining, to-the-point guidebook. Its data-driven strategies and battle tested techniques will make you a master of mobile-and improve your non-mobile design, too!
Download or read book Designing Mobile Apps written by Javier Cuello and published by José Vittone. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embarking on a career (or hobby) in app design can be intimidating, especially when information is scattered, confusing and hard to find. Designing Mobile Apps is a complete guide for those getting started, providing step-by-step details on how to design useful, attractive mobile applications. Authors Javier “Simón” Cuello and José Vittone share their experiences in the world of app design, revealing tricks of the trade based on their work at companies like Yahoo, Zara and Telefónica. Apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone How do operating systems differ? How does one go about transferring from one OS to another? Designing Mobile Apps answers these questions and more, using real-life examples and visual comparisons. The Complete Design Process From the initial concept to app store publication, Designing Mobile Apps covers the full app creation process in simple, easy-to-use terms. It includes numerous examples and doesn’t use a single line of code. Interviews with Top Professionals Designing Mobile Apps contains interviews with leading designers and developers, including Loren Brichter, Irene Pereyra, Erik Spiekermann and Dustin Mierau. They share the secrets they’ve learned while working at some of the best companies in the world. Written Especially for Designers and Developers Not sure how to prepare your design for the programmer? Know how to program, but fuzzy on the details in making your app truly appealing and easy to use? With Designing Mobile Apps, designers and developers can learn all they need to know to work together and create a successful app.
