Exploring Graphic User Interface Styles – from Minimal to Futuristic A user interface (UI) can come in many styles ranging graphically from very simple, all the way to extremely complex. In this article we are going to explore a range of styles demonstrating that there isn't just one recipe for creating a good looking, and ultimately successful user interface. Of course, not every style is represented in this article; we will be exploring several high-quality examples, representing a wide range of graphical styles from simple to complex. Enjoy! Section 1: Minimal A minimal style UI relies heavily on type, symbols, and white space to create a clear and simple user experience. HelvetiNote™ HelvetiNote™ by cypher13 uses a great mix of font weights and sizes, as well as thoughtfully placed icons and interface elements to form a fantastically minimal UI. HTC 1 Concept When designer Andrew Kim decided to concept a new piece of hardware, he envisioned a complete solution marrying the hardware and user interface. Things Section 2: Detailed Graphical Bills Beats Quarian
Effective Design for Multiple Screen Sizes So you’re a designer and have been tasked with the design of a mobile web site. Chances are, unless you’re designing for only one device you’re quickly going to be faced with a common problem experienced by designers who work with mobile devices; figuring out what screen size to actually design for. For instance: The iPhone is 320 pixels wide by 480 pixels high.Many Nokia N-Series devices are 240 pixels wide by 320 pixels high.Newer devices often support a landscape mode where the width and height are spontaneously reversed.Older (yet still popular) Nokia devices have displays ranging from 176 by 208 pixels up to 352 by 416 pixels.Blackberry screen resolutions range anywhere from 160 x 160 pixels all the way up to 324 x 352 pixels. This article is intended to help you develop effective design strategies to target a diverse range of mobile devices and screen sizes. Expect and manage diversity But wait, things may not be as bad as they first appear. The ‘Problem With Pixels’
Increase your headache by hiring a mobile app developer based on low cost « Suhel Khan's Blog I have been on both side of the fence in mobile app development, as a vendor providing services and as a client buying services from mobile app development companies. I have faced the heat from my clients for quoting high prices and I have given endless lectures to my vendors for the same. Point is high prices are not always “high prices”, it might actually be the right price to pay to get a great app. But the problem starts when we get trapped with a low cost vendor who promises you everything and delivers a shoddy application which even your kid will laugh at. I remember a old conversation with a client from Sweden, here is an excerpt from it :- Client: What on earth you were smoking when you did the estimation? Exactly, same thing happened with me, I burned my money, precious time and almost decided to abandon the project before somebody rescued me out of it. Cheers!! Like this: Like Loading...
A List Apart: Articles: Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your Website to the Small Screen Among the many websites that are out there, few are standards-compliant. Among those few, only a handful sport style sheets adjusted to the needs of handheld devices. Of those which do offer styling for handhelds, not all will fit the smallest, lowest-resolution screens without presenting the user with the ultimate handheld horror: namely, horizontal scrolling. The Opera browser runs on handheld devices of all screen sizes and resolutions, some of them only 120 pixels wide. We work for the company that produces Opera, so we can offer a degree of insight into the functions of Opera for handhelds. In this article, we’ve prepared a set of general suggestions for creating a handheld-friendly style sheet, along with a few Opera-specific pointers that you may find useful. The Constraints#section1 The main limitation of a handheld device is the small screen, which may also lack a mechanism for horizontal scrolling. Now, what do these limitations imply for the designer? Scaling it Down#section2 <!
Redesigning a Site For Mobile: What's Involved? Home : Articles : Redesigning a Site For Mobile: What's Involved? Article by Simon Meek | Published on 17 June 2011 Categories: This article shows how you might redesign an existing site for mobile, using (what else?) the Elated site for inspiration. We'll see how the process of paring down features can produce a clean and elegant mobile design. Recently, Matt Doyle here at Elated published an excellent piece called 10 Ways the Mobile Web is Different. Here's how the site currently looks on my phone: Elated.com on my iPhone. There are clearly things that we need to change to make it work on mobile. Approaching a mobile web design For me, the process of working through a mobile website design is one of simplification and reducing the feature set to the bare minimum. On the visual side, the design challenge when presenting a mobile site is to produce a usable design which finds "space" in such a small area. Features: What goes, what stays? Articles & tutorials. Forums is a tricky one. @bamme
Adding Animations Animations can add subtle visual cues that notify users about what's going on in your app and improve their mental model of your app's interface. Animations are especially useful when the screen changes state, such as when content loads or new actions become available. Animations can also add a polished look to your app, which gives your app a higher quality feel. Keep in mind though, that overusing animations or using them at the wrong time can be detrimental, such as when they cause delays. This training class shows you how to implement some common types of animations that can increase usability and add flair without annoying your users. Lessons Crossfading Two Views Learn how to crossfade between two overlapping views. Using ViewPager for Screen Slides Learn how to animate between horizontally adjacent screens with a sliding transition. Displaying Card Flip Animations Learn how to animate between two views with a flipping motion. Zooming a View Animating Layout Changes
Welcome to dotMobi | dotMobi How Mobile Phones Are Repairing India's Broken Healthcare System Though India officially calls healthcare a right for all citizens, doctor and staff absenteeism from public medical facilities prevents many citizens from accessing their legally-entitled care. Now, one non-profit has created a system that uses mobile phones to check up on healthcare workers' attendance. The Indo-Deutch Project Management Society (IDPMS) tracks SMS messages reporting staff absences sent by local patients, and maps the regions and facilities where absenteeism is prevalent. These maps are then made available to locals and policymakers. "Technology presents great potential to influence the flow of information," says Oscar Abello, senior program associate at the Results for Development Institute, which created the IDPMS video. "Information used to be spread by the country or the state. IDPMS works in southern India's state of Karnataka, and focuses on bringing accountability to rural services provided by the government.