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Mobile App Design

Learning mobile app design can help you build better, more user-friendly apps. Here you can explore tutorials, resources, and the best practices for designing mobile applications that meet user and business needs.

Tips for Creating a Truly Functional Mobile Experience

Tips for Creating a Truly Functional Mobile Experience

Web Design

The need for a website to be mobile-friendly is undeniable. Mobile has already overtaken desktop in the number of users, and Google has made no bones about the fact that…

Free Mobile App Icons & UI Kit (AI & EPS)

Free Mobile App Icons & UI Kit (AI & EPS)

Adobe Illustrator / UI Design

Free icons and various UI elements, such as buttons, sliders, and forms, designed to help you create a visually appealing mobile app or website.

Mobile Web Design Adaptations for Better UX

Mobile Web Design Adaptations for Better UX

UX Design

The number of mobile internet users has far surpassed the number of desktop users, eliminating the question of whether or not websites need to be adapted to devices of varying…

Progressive Web Applications: What Exactly Are They?

Progressive Web Applications: What Exactly Are They?

Web Design

The Progressive Web Apps (PWA) technology developed by Google has been available to the public for almost a year, but relatively few people outside the world of hardcore developers are…

20 Tips for Improving Your App’s Rank in the iOS App Store

20 Tips for Improving Your App’s Rank in the iOS App Store

Web Design

Just over 2 million apps and counting. That’s the number of apps currently in the iOS App Store, with thousands of similar apps overwhelming every category and subcategory. With that…

Designing a Successful Mobile Commerce App

Designing a Successful Mobile Commerce App

Web Design

A bad mobile app can make or break a company’s image and revenues. In fact, Google reports that 79% of surveyed respondents indicated they would turn to a competitor’s app…

Why You Should Choose iOS When Building Your First Mobile App

Why You Should Choose iOS When Building Your First Mobile App

Web Design

When designing a new mobile application, the biggest question you will need to ask yourself is where to launch it. The best decision you can make is to start building…

Anti-Apps: The Rise of Apps That Get You Away from Technology

Anti-Apps: The Rise of Apps That Get You Away from Technology

UX Design

Every generation has complained about the habits and technology of younger generations. Malesherbes, a French statesman, thought that newspapers isolated readers in contrast to the “spiritually uplifting” group practice of…

How Web Developers Can Adapt to a Mobile App World

How Web Developers Can Adapt to a Mobile App World

Web Design

I work for a development consulting company that was founded in 2005. Up until 2011 or so, we worked exclusively on websites and web-based applications. Since then, we have aggressively…

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

UI Design

A lot of time and energy is required to build mobile iOS/Android apps. Aside from the coding and UI design you need to plan functionality ahead of time. This way…

Adapting Mobile Web Usability for Ad Content Blockers

Adapting Mobile Web Usability for Ad Content Blockers

UX Design

Advertisements can be a critical source of revenue for content publishers, but increasingly ads are being shown in obnoxious and intrusive ways. And as many users are learning, their privacy…

The Business Impact of the Mobile Web’s Phenomenal Growth

The Business Impact of the Mobile Web’s Phenomenal Growth

Marketing

At the end of 2014, it became official: comScore reported that 60% of all online activities are now done using mobile devices by people across the planet. The stats are…

Why We Chose HTML5 over Native Apps

Why We Chose HTML5 over Native Apps

Web Design

My company recently had a tough decision to make. It was a decision that many developers are facing these days. Our sports news application LockerPulse hadn’t been updated since 2010…

Popular Tools for Cross Platform Mobile Development

Popular Tools for Cross Platform Mobile Development

Web Design

It used to be time-consuming to port apps between iOS and Android devices due to differences in the development environments, Xcode and Eclipse, and the programming languages, Objective-C and Java….

50 Beautiful Mobile App Icons for Design Inspiration

50 Beautiful Mobile App Icons for Design Inspiration

Inspiration / Web Design

In this showcase I have put together 70 full @2x mobile app icons. Each icon was designed and published on Dribbble with a direct link back to the source. I…

Enterprise Productivity Apps for Remote Teams

Enterprise Productivity Apps for Remote Teams

Freelance

It’s an exciting time to be a designer. With almost unlimited connectivity, designers and firms can work together without needing to inhabit the same space. Many designers and web professionals…

Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

Creating a Good Design Brief for Your Mobile App

Web Design

Understanding well what a client has in mind for his/her mobile app can be a slippery process. As a designer, you surely want to deliver to the best of your…

10 Useful Google Docs Templates for Web & Mobile App Designers

10 Useful Google Docs Templates for Web & Mobile App Designers

UI Design / Web Design
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