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We put together this wiki as a resource for this book. This site has an extensive number of mobile resources, including research-based frameworks, pattern libraries, drawing tools and templates, and plenty more enlightening mobile stuff. Please check it out!

4ourth Mobile

http://4ourth.com/wiki

Yes, I know you are already here. But I couldn't figure out a better way to include every word from the book than to include it, and then make this note.

Books

Originally, this was an unordered list of books that inspired us while we were writing Designing Mobile Interfaces. Now, I've expanded it to include things we missed or forgot to include, things that came out since our book, and have reorganized it by sections.

If you’re new to the field of mobile UI design, or you want to expand on your interests, these books can offer you an excellent source of background knowledge.

Mobile

• Mobile Design and Development, by Brian Fling (O’Reilly, 2009)

• Mobile Usability, by Jakob Nielsen, and Raluca Budiu (New Riders, 2012)

• Mobile First, by Luke Wroblewski (A Book Apart, 2011)

• Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience, by Christian Crumlish and, Erin Malone (Yahoo! Press, 2009)

• Designing Devices, by Dan Saffer (2012)

• Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices, by Dan Saffer (O'Reilly, 2008)

• The Mobile Book (Smashing Media, 2012)

• Essentials Of Mobile Design (Smashing Media, 2012)

• Gamification by Design: Implementing Game Mechanics in Web and Mobile Apps, by Gabe Zichermann, and Christopher Cunningham (O'Reilly Media, 2011)

• Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, by Giles Colborne (New Riders, 2010)

• Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for Mobile Applications, by Theresa Neil (O'Reilly Media, 2012)

• Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design, by Robert Hoekman Jr. (New Riders, 2010)

• The Usable Mobile Phone, by Anders Schroder (2012) - Free PDF download as it's been abandoned. Ask me for a copy if the link stops working.

Other UX Books

• About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reinmann, and David Cronin (Wiley, 2007)

• Designing Interfaces, Second Edition by Jenifer Tidwell (O’Reilly, 2011)

• Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald Norman (Basic Books, 2005)

• Gesture and Thought by David McNeill (The University of Chicago Press, 2005)

• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld (O’Reilly, 2006)

• Human Factors Design Handbook by Wesley Woodson, Peggy Tillman, and Barry Tillman (McGraw-Hill Professional, 1992)

• Information Design by Robert Jacobson (MIT, 1999)

• Universal Principles of Design: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design, Second Edition, by William Lidwell, Katrina Holden, and Jill Butler (Rockport Publishers, 2010)

• Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski (Rosenfeld Media, 2008)

• Learning Everywhere: How Mobile Content Strategies are Transforming Training, by Chad Udell (RockBench Publishing Corp, 2012)

Information Visualization, Information Design and Other Related Topics

• A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, and Shlomo Angel (Oxford University Press, 1977)

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Time Warner Book Group, 2005)

• Cockpit Engineering by D. N. Jarrett (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005)

• Designing by Drawing: A Practical Guide to Creating Usable Interactive Design by Steven Hoober (Little Springs Design, 2009)

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte (Graphics Press, 1983)

• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (Graphics Press, 1990)

Our Screenshots

A huge amount of our reference is actually looking at devices, and that includes GPS, TV, and whatever else we could find. For the book, we took around 1,300 screenshots (or, for older or weirder devices, photos). They are all in this group on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/sets/72157627094523863/with/5972038915/

Other Pattern Libraries

A list of Other Mobile Pattern Libraries and related online resources is available somewhere else on this wiki.

UI Style Guides

A list of the UI guides for each smartphone OS, and many other items to support design and drawing is under the Drawing Tools & Templates page elsewhere in this Wiki.

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