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Mobile Design

As well as learning the principles of mobile app design, you will also discover how to create responsive and user-friendly designs for all mobile devices.

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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…

Subtle UI – User Interface Improvements That Aren’t as Obvious

Subtle UI – User Interface Improvements That Aren’t as Obvious

UI Design

Sometimes the best user interface elements are the ones we barely notice. They’re so subtle, so masterfully crafted, that we don’t even recognize how much thought, care and attention has…

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….

What You Need to Know About Google’s Mobile Friendly Web

What You Need to Know About Google’s Mobile Friendly Web

Web Design

One element of web marketing that you can always rely on to stay the same is that nothing stays the same for very long. Page rankings and search engines are…

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…

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…

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

Web Design

Property lists are designed specifically for Objective-C apps to store and retain data. These are straight XML files formatted for easy access to bundles and application resources. There isn’t anything…

6 Great iOS Photography Apps for Pros & Beginners

6 Great iOS Photography Apps for Pros & Beginners

Photography

We all know that smartphones don’t exactly have the most best cameras in the market, but there are a number of great apps to make your photos look awesome. For…

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

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

Web Design

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…

Trends in Weather App Design

Trends in Weather App Design

Web Design

Back in the day presenting the weather, regardless of the medium, used to be complicated and very, very boring. But in recent years designers have taken on the design challenge…

Android Studio: The IDE built to help make the life of Android developers easier

Android Studio: The IDE built to help make the life of Android developers easier

Web Design

If you are an Android developer, life has so far offered a rather straightforward approach: you would probably use Android Developer Tools atop Eclipse, and that is pretty much it!…

“To Mobile App” or “Not To Mobile App”

“To Mobile App” or “Not To Mobile App”

Web Design

In this age of mobiles, everyone is using a smartphone or tablet device. As a result, more and more developers are actively pursuing mobile app development. No matter which platform…

Using WordPress as a REST API for a Mobile App

Using WordPress as a REST API for a Mobile App

WordPress

Often when making mobile apps you will need your app to get the latest content from your website, or if there is not a website already with content some way…

Design Trends for More Accessible Mobile Content

Design Trends for More Accessible Mobile Content

UX Design

When dealing with mobile interface design you have to consider a number of factors. Not all devices are built the same, and so each visitor will have a different experience…

Native Apps or Web Apps?

Native Apps or Web Apps?

Web Design

The burning debate between native apps and web apps that became the present-day martial epic – seemingly neverending – has finally found its end. Fred Cavazza said “it’s complicated“. Matthew…

Browser Wars 2.0: Bring it on!

Browser Wars 2.0: Bring it on!

Web Design
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