Monday, January 28, 2013

The Mobile Book: Additional Chapters Are Now Available!


   

The brand new Smashing Mobile Book was officially launched a couple of weeks ago and since then we’ve been receiving remarkable feedback and overwhelming, positive book reviews. You thought it’s done now? Well, it’s not! We now have an exclusive bonus ready for you: The Mobile Book Addendum is now available for free download.


Once you’ve ordered your printed copy of The Mobile Book, you’ll receive the eBook version in PDF, ePUB and Kindle formats, as well as the Mobile Book Addendum.

The Mobile Book Addendum is free of charge to everyone who orders a copy of the Mobile Book. Of course, if you have already ordered the Mobile Book, the Addendum is waiting for you in your personal dashboard — available in PDF, ePUB and Kindle. Also, keep in mind that the digital version of the Mobile Book and Addendum are included in the Smashing eBook Libraryour annual subscription with 70% discount on all Smashing eBooks.

The Mobile Book Addendum
The Mobile Book Addendum

The Mobile Book (+Addendum!)

The future is mobile. As more and more people are turning to mobile devices, designers and developers are facing new challenges and opportunities. Web design has to adapt. But before it can do so, we have to do our homework — understand the new medium and discover the right techniques and tools to design for it. Our brand new Mobile Book serves exactly this purpose.

These extra chapters of the Mobile Book provide insights into design and development for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, as well as introduce techniques for advanced HTML5 Web applications and explore UX patterns on these platforms.

Table of Contents (Addendum)

AUTHOR CHAPTER DETAILS
Greg Nudelman
Rian van der Merwe
Mobile Design Patterns

The key to using design patterns is not to get caught up in copying the exact implementations, but instead to witness the underlying reasons for why something works, and then adopt a unique design situation with authenticity, grace and vision. This chapter attempts to collect strategic patterns that reflect the underlying customer experience trends unique to the mobile environment, and use examples of particular implementations that call out important existing or emerging trends.

Chapter keywords: faceted refinement, parallel search, zero results recovery, tap-ahead, engagement, rollaway dashboard menu, tabbed views, reading and pagination.

Nathan Barry Getting Started With Design And Development For iOS

As an experienced designer of iPhone and iPad applications, Nathan Barry takes us on a detailed journey through the iOS platform. Starting with general culture and language of iOS, he moves to iOS design patterns, technical implementations in Xcode, the design and development process for new iOS apps as well as pricing, marketing and submission guidelines. Each section is accompanied with examples, suggestions and best practices.

Chapter keywords: mobile, user experience, native applications, native as culture, interaction design principles, responsive Web design.

Arturo Toledo Designing Windows Phone Apps

With its new Windows design language, Microsoft created an entirely new design methodology focused on the content of applications, relying more on type and less on graphics. In this chapter, Arturo Toledo, former UX designer at Microsoft, explains the new design concepts such Hub & Spoke model, Panoramas, Pivots and Pages, reviews Windows Phone design grid and design guidelines, provides UX advice on when what model is most appropriate and presents a workflow from the ideation phase to the design and development phase of a Windows phone app.

Chapter keywords: sketching, flow, hub & spoke model, panoramas, pages, list views, design grid, app bar, animations, branding.

Greg Nudelman Rian van der MerweNathan BarryArturo Toledo

Table of Contents: The Mobile Book (Printed)

Jeremy Keith Peter-Paul Koch Stephanie Rieger Trent Walton Brad Frost Dave Olsen Dennis Kardys Josh Clark

Sample and Technical Details

The Mobile Book
The Mobile Book. Large preview

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Snapshots Of The Mobile Book

Some of our Smashing readers and fans have already received their printed copies of The Mobile Book and have kindly sent us their pictures to share their joy. Thanks to everyone who has sent us a snapshot of their copies of the Smashing Mobile Book! Please feel free to send more pictures to ideas [at] smashing-media [dot] com!


Image Credits: Josh Johnson


Image Credits: Billy Moat


Image Credits: Jordan Moore


Image Credits: Carsten Schuetz


Image Credits: Jordan Moore


Image Credits: David Roessli


Image Credits: Lucas Dechow


Image Credits: Jason Gittings


Image Credits: Pete Hotchkiss


Image Credits: Christopher Butler

Thank You For Your Support!

We would appreciate it if you could inform your friends, colleagues and followers about the book. Feel free to link to www.the-mobile-book.com, this post and use the hashtag #mobilebook on Twitter.


Once you’ve ordered your printed copy of The Mobile Book, you’ll receive the eBook version in PDF, ePUB and Kindle formats, as well as the Mobile Book Addendum.

Thank you for your support, everybody—we truly appreciate it. And we hope that you’ll love the Mobile Book just as much as we do!


© Smashing Editorial for Smashing Magazine, 2013.


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