Designing for Small Screens: Mobile Phones, Smart Phones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, Navigation Systems, MP3 Players, Game Consoles

By Carolla Zwick, Studio 7.5, Carola Zwick, et al.

The design of interactive applications or presentations on small-screen devices presents a constantly evolving challenge for the designer. Not all design concepts that are valid on larger screens can be successfully implemented on smaller screens. The category of small-screen devices covers a multitude of hardware; all with very dissimilar technical specifications, modes of user interaction, and various levels of performance and functionality. This invaluable book equips the student or practitioner with the appropriate tools and principles that will enable the development of functional concepts, and the creation of effective and intuitive designs for a variety of small-screen devices. To simplify and visualise a number of complex issues, each of the nine chapters in this book is split into three distinct sections. These three sections are dedicated to the theoretical, practical and supplementary principles and techniques of the issue in question and, when combined, form a solid basis from which informed design decisions can be made. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2940373078
• ISBN13: 9782940373079
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Fairchild Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.6" x 7.9"