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Design Trends For Mobile – Part 5: Minimise The Taps
Design Trends For Mobile – Part 5 – Minimise The Taps.pdf

Design Trends in Mobile

This is the 5th part in a series of trends that I have witnessed in the design world. When designing, design for short bursts of activity similar to how people use phones across the board—in short bursts of activity. Users probably won’t sit for an hours going through your masterpiece, they will take bite-sized chunks and digest it at their will. These trends and UX have now become best practice in mobile design and an essential skill-set for the experienced UI designer.

It’s best to minimise your grand concepts to a simple set of options that gets the job done.
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Less functionality = Simple user interface = Easily perceived and understood
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Minimise The Taps

Limit your options and lead users through a series of simple choices, limiting options to 5-7 big links at any stage. Effectively holding the users hand and guiding them through is a specialism that all UX designers need to master.

Design Trends For Mobile – Part 5 – Minimise The Taps.pdf

This is but part of an examination of broad design principles russellwebbdesign generated for the design community. Please contact us further to discuss if your brand (or it’s design) can really wants to benefit from effective communication and good graphic design: info@russellwebbdesign.co.uk

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14/02/2012
Design Trends For Mobile – Part 4: Interactive Feedback

Design Trends For Mobile – Part 4 – Interactive Feedback.pdf

Design Trends in Mobile

This is the 4th part in a series of trends that I have witnessed in the design world. These trends and UX have now become best practice in mobile design and an essential skill-set for the experienced UI designer.

Interactive Feedback

Provide obvious feedback for any action. Actions which take a long time to load need an indication that something is in progress. For each process, include loading states to provide the user with a timeline. This type of visual feedback is familiar to most users and you’d be wise to take advantage of it.

Basecamp Mobile does a great job of this by showing a spinning loading gif as it loads the next page. Remember, the desktop browsers have various indicators built-in to show that something is in progress. Mobile browsers don’t make it as obvious, so it’s important to build visual feedback into your mobile site and/or app design.

Design Trends For Mobile – Part 4 – Interactive Feedback.pdf

This is but part of an examination of broad design principles russellwebbdesign generated for the design community. Please contact us further to discuss if your brand (ot it’s design) can really wants to benefit from effective communication and good graphic design: info@russellwebbdesign.co.uk

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07/02/2012
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Design Trends For Mobile – Part 1: Essential Content

Design Trends For Mobile – Part 1 – Essential Content.pdf

Design Trends for mobile: Part I

After only a few years the mobile landscape has generated a selection of trends and UX that have now become best practice in mobile design and an essential skill-set for the experienced UI designer. And as a UX designer you should be aware of these experiences and how best to incorporate them into your design decisions.

Essential Content

Mobile user have an absolutely different mind set to desktop. When you’re searching for that restaurant on your phone, the last thing you need delivered, in a heavy multimedia format, is the history of the company or the head chefs ethos on sustainable farming – you just need the address ( preferably linked to Maps ).
So, concentrate on location, focus on why would the user needs that information and therefore deliver it in the format best suited to the situation, like a phone number.

Design Trends For Mobile – Part 1 – Essential Content.pdf

This is but one part of a 12 point examination of the design principles russellwebbdesign generated for the mobile design community. Please contact us further to discuss if your brand (or it’s design) can really benefit from ‘best-in-class’ mobile design: info@russellwebbdesign.co.uk

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10/01/2012
Free Pay Pal buttons for UI designers everywhere
PayPal button

An essential part of the UI designers job is to quickly and cleverly visuals client concepts. So, to all my fellow designers out there please feel free to download the vector, resolution-independent ‘PayPal button‘ Adobe Illustrator file package.
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All I ask is you drop a comment if you used the file successfully
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You can download the PayPal GUI package here
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All I ask is you drop a comment if you used the file successfully
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This is only part of the offer russellwebbdesign generated for my UX/UI designer buddies out there. Please contact us further to discuss if your brand really wants to benefit from this new immersive experience here:info@russellwebbdesign.co.uk

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22/09/2011