Cross-Platform Native Apps With A Single Code Set Using Telerik NativeScript
Developing hybrid mobile applications isn’t anything new. PhoneGap, which has now split to become PhoneGap and Apache Cordova, came into existence in 2009. Hybrid frameworks such as Apache Cordova set out to make it easier for developers to create mobile applications by allowing them to use web technologies, namely CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript. (more…)
Free 20 Item Mobile Device Pack
This a ux device pack that I created while building assets for my larger projects. I hope you enjoy it. (more…)
JS drag and drop and resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping
JavaScript drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers (and also IE8+)http://interactjs.io/ (more…)
Mobile PSD Mockup Collection Set
Here is a small collection of mobile PSD Mockups for presenting your mobile apps or website designs to potential clients. Perfect for marketing materials and promotional flyers these mockups will get your product noticed! (more…)
3D iPhone5 Mockup Template with Smartlayers (PSD)
Fully created and rendered as a 3D model, this free iPhone5 mockup will render your mobile app designs as gorgeous professionally photographed product shots. This Photoshop document uses a predefined smartlayer to instantly render whatever design you drop into it. (more…)
Mockup Templates for Prototyping Mobile Web Apps
The folks over at keynotopia have created a very extensive template for designing mobile apps. Once a $49 dollar product, it can be yours for free with just a single tweet. In minutes you could be creating low-fidelity prototypes using Apple Keynote! (more…)
Collection of Mobile Design Patterns for App Ideas
The following is a collection of 11 Mobile design Patterns websites (scroll down) where you can gather inspiration or information on how other designers and developers like yourself have created their apps. Most of these sites contain several screenshots of the popular iOS and Android apps so you can view the onboarding process or if you'd simply like to walkthrough each mobile pattern manually. (more…)
Font Awesome Free Vector Graphic Icons
What is Font Awesome? Easily the largest and commercially open set of vector graphics stored in a font. With this font you can bring hundreds of vector graphics to your web site design or mobile app simply by styling some text — the advantage is clear, the font is loaded once which saves your web or mobile app from making lots of micro-requests to your server for content. (more…)
Simple and Elegant Mobile App Wireframe Kit (PSD)
This PSD UI Kit contains popular UI elements, a phone sized grid and 3 hand gesture illustrations. You can use it in your next UI design project! The freebie wireframe lit is brought to you by FileSquare, a prototyping web app. (more…)
Guidelines For The Development Of Accessible Mobile Interfaces (PDF)
In a project funded by the Swedish Internet Fund, Funka has developed guidelines for the development of accessible mobile interfaces. The guidelines are free to use for everyone and we appreciate your comments in the content! (more…)
Facebook Home Breaks The Fourth Wall Of Mobile Design
Inside Apple, Jony Ive is pushing designers to rethink iOS, the software that runs on the iPhone and iPad. Apple’s new direction? Like Microsoft, which has distanced itself from skeuomorphic design, Ive has been pushing "flat design" in Apple’s mobile products. But just because Apple and Microsoft are embracing flatness, don’t let that fool you into thinking the future of mobile user interface design will also be shallow. (more…)
Magic and Mobile Apps
Apple long ago abandoned its original “Magical and Revolutionary” tagline for the iPad, probably out of some embarrassment at how the word ‘magical’ made so many of us groan. But the more I use, build and learn about touch-based software, the more I think magic is really a key component of this stuff, even if it’s not exclusive to the iPad. (more…)
Visceral Apps and You
For the past few years, I’ve been watching the buzz around various products and trying to figure out just what it was that made them so tantalizing. Obviously, great UI and beautiful graphics are important. The use of white space, typography and functionality are all critical. Great apps also have great attention to detail. It’s important to really nail each of these things (more…)
Designing for Mobile, Part 2: Interaction Design
Welcome to Designing for Mobile, Part 2: Interaction Design. Here’s some background in case you’re just joining us mid-series: Designing for Mobile, Part 1: Information Architecture demonstrated the key challenges designers face when designing for mobile, primarily the mobile context: from viewing conditions, to behavior and emotion. (more…)