Graphic Designer
By Ana Labudovic, Nenad Vukusic
Rockport Publishers, June 2009
ISBN: 9781592534906
192 pages, $30.00
This book is the first and most complete handbook for the aspiring graphic designer. In all, 2,096 participants from around the world provided us with information on their work habits, likes and dislikes, all to your advantage. You won’t find surgically precise statistics about their salaries or employment rates, but rather their opinions about everyday dilemmas and long-term plans. And guess what they all had in common? A desire to enjoy their work and to be able to live from it.
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Chapter 10. Mobile Design
Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Color Edition
By Theresa Neil
O’Reilly Media, Inc., May 2012
ISBN: 9781449336455
280 pages, $44.99
When you’re under pressure to produce a well designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there’s no time to reinvent the wheel. This concise book provides a handy reference to 70 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by more than 400 screenshots from current iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian apps. User experience professional Theresa Neil walks you through design patterns in 10 separate categories, including anti-patterns. Whether you’re designing a simple iPhone application or one that’s meant to work for every popular mobile OS on the market, these patterns provide solutions to common design challenges. This print edition is in full color.
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Mobile Design and Development
By Brian Fling
O’Reilly Media, Inc., August 2009
ISBN: 9780596806231
336 pages, $34.99
Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. This book fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you’ll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You’ll also explore the more advanced capabilities of the mobile web, including markup, advanced styling techniques, and mobile Ajax. If you’re a web designer, web developer, information architect, product manager, usability professional, content publisher, or an entrepreneur new to the mobile web, this book provides you with the knowledge you need to work with this rapidly developing technology.
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Mobile Web Design For Dummies
By Janine Warner, David LaFontaine
For Dummies, September 2010
ISBN: 9780470560969
379 pages, $24.99
With the popularity of Internet access via cell phones and other mobile devices, Web designers now have to consider as many as eight operating systems, several browsers, and a slew of new devices as they plan a new site, a new interface, or a new sub-site. This easy-to-follow friendly book guides you through this brave new world with a clear look at the fundamentals, in particular XHTML and CSS, and offers practical techniques and tricks you may not have considered.
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Strategic Mobile Design: Creating Engaging Experiences
By Joseph Cartman, Richard Ting
New Riders, December 2008
ISBN: 9780321574367
224 pages, $34.99
This book gives anyone interested in mobile campaigns, both client-side and production-side, the knowledge to approach a mobile project with a cohesive strategy. The book presents a holistic view of the mobile ecosystem design/technology/marketing/business/build, with enough information to get one started with a project of this nature.
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