Wiki

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

Books

Here is a list of books that inspired us while we were writing this book. 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.

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

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

• 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)

• Designing Interfaces, Second Edition (http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920000556) by Jenifer Tidwell (O’Reilly, 2011)

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

• 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 (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527341) by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld (O’Reilly, 2006)

• Information Design by Robert Jacobson (MIT, 1999)

• Mobile Design and Development (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155452) by Brian Fling (O’Reilly, 2009)

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

• 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)

Discuss & Add

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/

Make a new section

Just like this. If, for example, you want to argue about the differences between, say, Tidwell's Vertical Stack, and our general concept of the List, then add a section to discuss. If we're successful, we'll get to make a new edition and will take all these discussions into account.