Tag Archives: patterns

Mobile design patterns Wiki

Barbara Ballard’s mobile patterns library has become a wiki for all to contribute to and help develop.
“Designing mobile user interfaces grows ever more interesting. Device and network capabilities are improving, platforms are giving us more features to help the user, privacy and security are becoming more important, and device proliferation is both increasing and decreasing. [...]

Device hierarchies as design tools

”...mobile patterns rely on both device user interface style and platform. Whereas tabs are a useful mechanism on a stylus-driven device (web or local application), they are less useful on a scroll-and-select device application, and should be implemented as horizontal navigation instead. The same navigation in a web browser on a scroll and select device [...]

Mobile design patterns

Little Springs Design has started publishing design patterns for mobile devices (primarily targetting mobile phones for both web and native applications). So far, six twelve have been published.
“Keypresses should be kept to a minimum for common actions. Unlike a desktop, a keypress is not simply a mouse click, but the number of times the cursor [...]