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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.

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

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

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…

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

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

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

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

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…

50 Beautiful Mobile App Icons for Design Inspiration

50 Beautiful Mobile App Icons for Design Inspiration

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

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

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

If I am honest, I don’t know how popular Google Docs is within the freelance community, but I have found that I have been using it a lot more recently….

The Do’s and Don’ts of Building HTML5 Hybrid Apps

The Do’s and Don’ts of Building HTML5 Hybrid Apps

In the beginning there was native code and it was good. Then PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Trigger.io, AppGyver and others emerged, ushering in the “native or hybrid” debate. If you aren’t familiar…

40 Beautifully Designed Mobile Apps for UI Inspiration

40 Beautifully Designed Mobile Apps for UI Inspiration

Mobile designers have become more prominent in today’s extensible web. iOS and Android apps have flooded the markets and earned a lot of money for some small development studios. The…

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications