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What resources on mobile UX and mobile interfaces design (including mobile web-sites) would you recommend? I'm looking for all kinds of resources (books, websites and blogs, podcasts, whatever). Resources that give an overview and could be used as an intro are especially interesting.

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Paul Hibbitts · Answer 1 · 2009-11-12 14:40:27Z UTC

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You might be interested in my collection of small screen UI design resources at: http://www.paulhibbitts.com/small-screen-ui-design-links.html

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Paul Hibbitts
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Nice collection, thanks! – Kostya Nov 14 at 19:32

Brian · Answer 2 · 2009-11-12 17:24:19Z UTC

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Barbara Ballard has started a great wiki which lists plenty of resources for designing and devloping mobile applications and websites.

http://patterns.design4mobile.com/index.php/Main_Page

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Zoltán Gócza · Answer 3 · 2009-11-12 15:06:35Z UTC

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Good intros:

Smashing Mag's Mobile Web Design Trends For 2009
Nielsen's Mobile Usability

Blogs that I know of:

Adaptive Path's posts on mobile UX
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Richard A Muscat · Answer 4 · 2009-11-12 16:46:22Z UTC

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iPhone related but still relevant. Mainly about how mobile UI is still generally bad and probably much easier to learn what not to do at this stage rather than the opposite.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1128-learning-from-bad-ui

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Nathalie Crosbie · Answer 5 · 2009-11-12 18:33:30Z UTC

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2.2) Patterns-Related Resources (cont'd): iPhone OS Reference Library (includes UIKit): http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/index.html

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paulseys · Answer 6 · 2009-11-17 10:31:35Z UTC

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BlueFlavor produced this guide for developers a couple of years ago which is well worth a read http://blueflavor.com/our-work/dotmobi-developers-guide/

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	Paulseys, thank you sooooo much! I've found this guide exactly a couple of years ago and then unfortunately lost it and was unable to find. – Kostya Nov 17 at 12:59
	There's also Nick Finck's slideshare presentation nickfinck.com/blog/entry/mobile_ux – paulseys♦ Mar 16 at 14:28
	Not sure how much help it is but I also have a Delicious tag for mobileux delicious.com/paulseys/mobileux – paulseys♦ May 14 at 14:40

Nathalie Crosbie · Answer 7 · 2010-02-16 15:44:56Z UTC

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This site will only let me post one hyperlink since I'm a new user here so I'll try posting a few seperately:

1) Best practices: o W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (dated 2008): http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/

Feb 16/10 update: There is now also a set of "flip cards" for the above.

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Nathalie, thank you very much for many useful links! – Kostya Nov 14 at 19:35

Nathalie Crosbie · Answer 8 · 2010-07-21 12:41:20Z UTC

3) Other Resources & Articles:

3.1) Designing and building mobile applications and websites (includes a list of topics that may be helpful to get you started in mobile design): http://patterns.littlespringsdesign.com/index.php/Main_Page

3.2) Mobiforge (Resource for mobile web development and mobile web design): http://mobiforge.com/

3.3) Re: iPhone Application UI Design Patterns: http://flyosity.com/application-design/iphone-application-design-patterns.php

3.4) Webcredible articles tagged with 'Mobile': http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/mobile/

July 21/10 update: adding a few more resources:

Books:

Mobile Web Design by Cameron Moll
'Designing Gestural Interfaces' (includes patterns, prototyping, and a 'palette of human gestures and movements'

Sites re: research, design, development and usability for ipad & iphone specifically:

Nathalie Crosbie · Answer 9 · 2009-11-12 16:36:28Z UTC

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2.1) Patterns-Related Resources:

Jennifer Tidwell - Mobile Design Patterns: http://library.ixda.org/node/20

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Evan Carroll · Answer 10 · 2009-11-24 04:02:25Z UTC

I thought that this (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/four-key-principles) recent article at Boxes & Arrows provided a good analysis of mobile user experience. The thoughts about our intimate relationships with out devices was quite interesting.

I also tend to go back to this (http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/04/google_lays_out.html) article about Google's mobile UX strategy when thinking about mobile. It's a few years old, but provides a good framework for thinking about mobile tasks.