About the Book
We recently had a new mobile project starting and all of our experienced mobile designers were booked. This gave me less than a week to ramp up a new designer. So I made a quick tutorial with lots and lots of screenshots, illustrating good design and not so good design. Gradually a set of patterns for mobile application design emerged.
Even as I was cataloging these patterns, I knew that the real value wasn’t only the pattern identification, but in the hundreds of examples I’d captured. So instead of a tome of abstract patterns only an author can love, this book is a showcase, or gallery, of mobile application design. This book includes 400+ current screenshots from iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Symbian and Windows mobile applications.
Check out the Flickr photostream for over 600 screenshots organized by pattern type. And follow me on Twitter, @mobilepatterns, for expert mobile design tips. And don’t forget to sign up to win a copy of the book!
Hi,
Just a comment about the ‘Coming Soon Fall 2011′ – Fall doesn’t mean anything to most people outside the US, and it’s the total opposite season in the Southern Hemisphere – I’m sure there’s people in both audiences who would like to know when your book is coming out
Great point, thank you. The book should be released at the end of November. You can pre-order it on Amazon now.
Since you don’t have a contact form anywhere on this site, I felt compelled to leave a comment. Please fix the image slider arrows, they keep moving and you can’t continuously click. Good UI is great, good UX is better.
Will do- that is driving me crazy too.And we’ll add a contact link to the footer. Thanks for the suggestions.
Looking forward to reading your book. Just wrapping up Brian’s book on Mobile design & dev. I’m also UBER thankful you have a huge flickr collection of all your research and findings. Awesomeness : )
Hi Theresa!
We’ve launched a new service http://inspired-ui.com where you will find a huge collection of awesome mobile UI patterns. Check it out and if you’ll like it, could you please add the link to the Good Reads list too? Thanks in advace!