When your developing a mobile application how much time and effort do you spend on application design and user interface?
Mobile development has been growing since the day Apple introduced iPhone. Mobile browser has never been so robust and to make your application stand out you need to make the additional effort on the User Interface experience and its design.
To help you start up your mobile development, here are some useful insights into the design aspect required to create awesome appealing apps.
Type Face
http://www.ubelly.com/2011/10/typographic-design-in-the-digital-domain-a-conversation-with-erik-spiekermann/
On way-finding graphics
http://www.ubelly.com/2011/10/navigation-with-way-finding-graphics-a-conversation-with-tony-howard/
On mobile audio
http://www.ubelly.com/2011/10/sound-and-sound-reproduction-a-conversation-with-gareth-jones/
On light & space in architecture
http://www.ubelly.com/2011/10/space-light-in-architecture-a-conversation-with-duncan-mcleod/
The Windows Phone Experience
Useful Resources and tips for building windows phone applications
In this lesson you discover the process of conceptualizing an application, such as gaining an understanding of the user’s needs and goals. You also find out how to start your prototype using Expression Blend and the SketchFlow for Windows Phone template.
In this module you will add sample data, and then edit both the ItemsPanel and the ItemTemplate of a ListBox to create a professional look for your data.
In this module, users discover how to custom edit their data templates for their phone app by importing images and adding motion.
In this module, viewers discover how to drop in Native Adobe Illustrator artwork and turn it into working controls. They also find out how to edit the button template, take advantage of states, transitions and behaviors.
In this section, you discover how to use the sample data, along with some behaviors and state changes to replicate selection choices in a ListBox.
Metro is the name of the new design language created for the Windows Phone 7 interface. When given the chance for a fresh start, the Windows Phone design team drew from many sources of inspiration to determine the guiding principles for the next generation phone interface.
Microsoft Expression Blend offers a feature rich environment for designing highly interactive experiences on Windows Phone 7.
The following list of tips and tricks will help you design and develop Windows Phone 7 applications.
One of the more powerful features that Silverlight offers you is an array of container controls providing a simple way to accomplish the layout of your dynamic applications.
In this tutorial, you discover how to use Photoshop Windows Phone 7 template files to create pixel-perfect application layouts for your Windows Phone 7 application.
FXG is an acronym for Flash XML Graphics File, and it describes an XML-based graphics interchange format created by Adobe for the Flash Platform, and is supported by Microsoft Expression Blend.
No longer do smart phones of today depend only on hardware keyboards or the stylus of the past. Windows Phone 7 devices come equipped with a capacitive touch screen that offers a smooth, accurate, multi-touch enabled experience for the user.