When working on Sudoku Master Example for Nokia, I designed a simple touch keypad for number entry to Sudoku cells. In the design, touch keypad highlighted the number ‘over’ the touch point with a zoom effect. Many thought I got ‘inspired’ from iPhone, and questioned the design. However, the reason was simple (so I thought): …
We uploaded a sneak preview of next KISS60 version on YouTube. Most significant improvement is the new User Interface which is pure Flash Lite 1.1 (works much faster on real device than the video). Behind the scenes, there is a robust architecture powered by KuneriLite 0.9.4. There are also some new features in next version. …
Nokia announces new features that will enhance the user experience in S60 smartphones in future. These technologies will be available for all S60 device manufacturers during 2008: The touch user interface in S60 smartphone Motion and orientation to proximity and light, sensor technology is expanding New UI Accelerator toolkit Complete Web video experience as Flash …
Here is a great article from Yahoo User Interface blog: Challenges of Interface Design for Mobile Devices. Many good points mentioned and applies to most UI design cases. The single most important concept to master when designing mobile device interfaces is “context”. The context in which an application is used and the context of how …
After a long time of silence, Kuneri Bloggy returns back with a new look and feel. We have been ultimately busy with KuneriLite preparations, but now it’s about to end and we felt like it’s time to smarten up and for some make up. From now on, you will find more news, more visuals, more …
New white paper from Adobe: Designing Engaging Mobile Experiences by Josh Ulm. Paper aims to help understanding the guiding principles that are critical to designing great experiences for today’s mobile device users.
A new article by Forum Nokia; Mobile action games – Ready, set, action! This article discusses the challenges and possibilities of designing action games for mobile devices. Many of the issues presented relate to overall game design and game mechanics that aim to improve the user experience, rather than details of technical implementation.
Motorola unveiled their new device MS800 in Korean market. Interesting part is; it has Flash Lite user interface, that I am looking forward to see more examples. Here you can see the preview, looks very creative and impressing. As far as I could get, Flash UI is to be downloaded, which also makes me think …
This document explains the basic principles of visualization and graphic design, and provides examples of good and bad design. The document discusses graphic design for the mobile world, for example, colors, contrast, animation, and icon design, and gives tips on how to make the most of the small screen of a mobile device. The example …
New tutorial: Creating SIS files for distribution from Adobe mobile and devices developer center. With this tutorial, you can learn how to pack a Flash Lite project with many files, into one Symbian SIS package. There is also a sample ZIP file, which includes tutorial files. Alex offers also a PHP solution instead of PKG, …