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UX Design for Mobile

You're reading from UX Design for Mobile Design apps that deliver impressive mobile experiences

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787283428

Length 354 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

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Authors (2):

Pablo Perea

Pau Giner

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Design Principles and General Design Planning FREE CHAPTER

2. Research - Learning from Your Users

3. Exploring Ideas - Sketching

4. Mobile Patterns - Web App, Android, and iOS Best Practices

5. Detail Your Solution - Wireframes and Mockups

6. Prototyping - Bringing Your Ideas to Life

7. Prototyping with Motion - Using Tumult Hype

8. Prototyping with Code - Using Framer Studio

9. User Testing

10. Bibliography and References

Chapter 6. Prototyping - Bringing Your Ideas to Life

"I don't explain, I don't tell, I show."

- Leo Tolstoy

Anticipating the success of a product is not an easy task. Human history is full of both successful and unsuccessful products. Although simple toys like the hula-hoop were a tremendous success, the swing-wing--a toy based on similar concepts--was not successful at all.

The Swing Wing was a toy designed to capitalize on the fun of moving your neck back and forth repeatedly. It was a big failure in terms of adoption, despite its similarities to the extremely successful, waist-moving hula-hoop (the preceding image was found from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Wing_(toy), https://archive.org/details/swing_wing).

Every app starts from an idea, and you never know for sure if that idea will work in practice. Waiting until your product gets built in order to validate your idea represents a big risk--if things don't go as expected, you'll have little room to change course. It would be more...

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Authors (2)

Pablo Perea

Pablo Perea

Pablo Perea has been working as a designer for many years, mainly focusing on user experience, user interface, and mobile and web design for companies such us Embarcadero Technologies. His daily work includes researching, prototyping, designing, and testing new ideas and solutions. He graduated in computer engineering and has a deep knowledge and understanding of different programming languages. As a devotee of technology, he is always learning and investigating new working fields and methods. He is an adaptable and flexible person who welcomes change and loves meeting new cultures and teams.

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Pau Giner

Pau Giner

Pau Giner is a designer. He likes exploring and prototyping new ideas, and always has a pen to hand. As part of the design team at the Wikimedia Foundation, he has been designing for Wikipedia and other open projects to ensure that millions of users can easily access the sum of all human knowledge. His design work has explored new ways to contribute, from translating Wikipedia articles to reviewing content with the help of artificial intelligence. He has organized several design workshops, he got a PhD from the Universitat Politècnica de València for his research on mobile workflows, and he has also published a number of short stories.

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