We recently had a new mobile project starting and all of our experienced mobile designers were booked. This gave me less than a week to impart my mobile experiences to a new designer. So I made a quick tutorial with lots and lots of screenshots, illustrating good design and not so good design. Gradually a set of patterns for mobile application design emerged.
Even as I was cataloging these patterns, I knew that the real value wasnât only the pattern identification, but in the hundreds of examples Iâd captured. So instead of a tome of abstract patterns only an author can love, this book is a showcase, or gallery, of mobile application design. This book includes 400+ current screenshots from iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Symbian and Windows applications, organized by pattern type. And the accompanying site: www.mobiledesignpatterngallery, and Flickr photostream have even more examples.
The Mobile Design Pattern Gallery is for product managers, designers and developers who are creating mobile applications. As companies are defining and refining their mobile strategy, it can be a challenge to find examples of design best practices, especially for multiple operating systems. Whether you have been tasked with designing a simple iPhone application, or designing for every popular operating system on the market, these patterns will provide solutions to common design challenges.
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Many thanks to my illustrator Aaron Jasinski for designing all the patterns, Chad at Smith & Robot for the Mobile Design Pattern Gallery website and blog design, Mary and Dan at OâReilly Media for pulling it all together. I also have to thank my talented team, Jessica, James, Kirsten, Marie, Ben, Lulu, Ivan and Enrico for holding the business together the last six months. And my patient family for letting me write every weekend. Special thanks to Jenifer Tidwell and her son Matthew for the wonderful forewordâI hope my readers will enjoy this gallery half as much as an afternoon of cloud watching.
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