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Buy the O'Reilly book Designing Mobile Interfaces, or read it all right here for free.

Articles, slides and videos on the definitive, up-to-date, reseach-based guidelines on designing for fingers, touch and people.

Touch Template+-

A cheap, simple, plastic guide to help you keep the touch guidelines in mind during design and test.

Touch Overlays: Free stencils for use in your favorite wireframe or mockup tool, as long as it's INDD, AI, PSD, Graffle, VSD, or PPT.
Contact: With any comments, questions, corrections or to hire us for consulting or speaking.
Other devices: The patterns in Designing Mobile Interfaces are really best applied to small, portable devices. Here's some info and leads on other devices you may need to work on.
Writing: A list of all the articles I have written, as well as other books and research reports I have contributed to.
Speaking: Ask me to speak at your event, or see slides and videos of my previous talks.

A few Medium articles | An old Blog

Fingers, Touch & People

If there's anything I'm the expert on now, it's how people hold and touch their mobile phones and tablets. I'm trending towards fully writing a smallish book on it. I am working on it over hereabouts, but since it'll be a mess for a long while, just check out the Touch overview page for the most current complete articles, presentations, videos, guidelines and references.

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	Raster Design Tips	14:59	shoobe01
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	Mentions, Reviews & Other Writing	17:34	shoobe01 [1-6]
2019-12-04
	Index	17:45	shoobe01 [1-5]
2019-11-05
	Not Desktop, But Not Quite Mobile	23:24	shoobe01
2019-08-08
	Speaking	14:21	shoobe01
2019-06-26
	Color Deficit Design Tools	19:52	shoobe01

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-== Designing Mobile Interfaces: Patterns for Interaction Design ==
[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449394639/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=4ourthmobile-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1449394639|{{attachment:Book-Cover.png|Designing Mobile Interfaces, by Steven Hoober & Eric Berkman.|align="left"}}]]'''''Designing Mobile Interfaces: Patterns for Interaction Design''''' is the comprehensive, platform-agnostic reference for your mobile design work. Whether you design or develop for smartphones, featurephones, tablets, or other touchscreen devices, common principles are discussed and codified as 76 universal interaction and interface patterns. '''Designing Mobile Interfaces''' has been translated into [[http://4ourth.com/wiki/Other%20languages%20and%20editions|multiple languages]], used to teach interactive design at universities, and guided the creation of countless apps, websites and even entire OSs like Firefox.
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-Each pattern explains the underlying psychology and physiology, describes best practices in implementation, and lists pitfalls and "best practices" you should watch out for and avoid. Every pattern is grouped with similar or optional patterns, and appendices detail key background information from typography to the principles of mobile networks. You get not just a list of designs and out of date screenshots, but have a base of knowledge to make up your own mind, and react to the always-changing mobile environment.
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-''"Designing Mobile Interfaces is another stellar addition to O’Reilly’s essential interface books. Every mobile designer will want to have this thorough book on their shelf for reference."''
— Dan Saffer
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-'''Buy it from Amazon:'''
 * [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449394639/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=4ourthmobile-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1449394639|Paperback, 582 pages, color.]]
 * [[http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=4ourthmobile-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00630NWGK&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr|For your Kindle.]]
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-'''Buy it direct from O'Reilly:'''
 * [[http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920013716.do|Paperback, 582 pages, color.]]
 * [[http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920013716.do|eBook. DRM-Free PDF, ePub, Kindle-compatible .mobi, DAISY, and Android .apk for pretty much any reader you wish.]]
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-'''Read in other languages'''
 * ''Designing Mobile Interfaces'' has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Italian. [[Other languages and editions]]
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-=== Read it Online ===
Or, you can just read the whole book [[Designing Mobile Interfaces|right here on this wiki]]. Pretty much every bit of content from the book is posted online.
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-It is also regularly updated, especially the reference sections, so even if you buy the book check back for updates, and [[https://shoobe01.wufoo.com/forms/contact-us-about-the-book-or-wiki/|contact us]] with errors, suggestions or to get access to the wiki to add updates yourself.
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 * [[http://4ourth.com/TouchOverlay/|Touch Overlays]]: Free stencils for use in your favorite wireframe or mockup tool, as long as it's INDD, AI, PSD, Graffle, VSD, or PPT.

 * [[http://shoobe01.wufoo.com/forms/contact-4ourth-mobile/|Contact]]: With any comments, questions, corrections or to hire us for consulting or speaking. 
 * [[Not Desktop, But Not Quite Mobile|Other devices]]: The patterns in Designing Mobile Interfaces are really best applied to small, portable devices. Here's some info and leads on other devices you may need to work on. 

 * [[Mentions, Reviews & Other Writing|Writing]]: A list of all the articles I have written, as well as other books and research reports I have contributed to. 
 * [[Speaking]]: Ask me to speak at your event, or see slides and videos of my previous talks. 

[[http://www.slideshare.net/shoobe01|Slideshare]] | [[https://www.youtube.com/user/shoobe01|YouTube]] | [[https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=10316450@N03&q=designing%20mobile%20interfaces|Flickr]] | [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shoobe01|LinkedIn]] | [[https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=10316450@N03&q=designing%20mobile%20interfaces|Google+]] | [[https://twitter.com/shoobe01/|Twitter]] | [[https://www.facebook.com/shoobe01|Facebook]] | [[https://www.behance.net/shoobe01|Behance]]

[[http://medium.com/@shoobe01|A few Medium articles]] | [[http://shoobe01.blogspot.com/|An old Blog]]
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== Not Desktop, But Not Quite Mobile ==
Though the patterns in Designing Mobile Interfaces are supposed to be general enough to apply to kiosks, telematics, 10-foot Ui, etc. and my touch research originally was also, experts in those fields insist they just aren't the same. I have given in and in the interest of increasing knowledge, am going to start linking to the good stuff in related domains. If you know of a good info source for any of these, tell me about it and I'll add it. 

 * '''Wearables'''
  * [[Wearables]]
 * '''Kiosks''' even if they are made by strapping an iPad to the wall, have different context, and different environmentally-derived interactions. Design them differently. 
  * [[http://www.studioiq.com.au/blog/designing-software-for-kiosks|Designing Software for Kiosks]] by Studio IQ. Good tips. Keep bugging them, and maybe we'll get a full repository of info out of them.
  * [[http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2013/08/designing-intuitive-point-of-interest-and-point-of-sale-touch-interfaces.php|Designing Intuitive Point-of-Interest and Point-of-Sale Touch Interfaces]]
 * '''10-foot-UI''' is any interactive experience viewed from a distance. The usual assumption is a TV in a living room. Smart TVs have brought this out of the game console, and made it more mainstream. Your website is getting viewed at 10 foot range, in group settings. 
  * [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/tv/device-considerations/designing-for-tv/introduction|Global Experience Language - TV]] by the BBC - Style guides and many guidelines and principles for TV graphics and interactive TV. 
  * [[https://medium.com/building-for-android-tv|Building for Android TV: Because sometimes documentation is not enough.]] by Sebastiano Gottardo
  * [[http://51degrees.mobi/Blog/TabId/553/ArtMID/1641/ArticleID/184/Which-TV-Screen-Size-is-Most-Popular-in-the-US.aspx|TV Screen Sizes]] by popularity of Web viewing, September 2013
  * [[Large displays]] some thoughts I am putting together
 * '''Telematics'''
  * [[http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/41506/dark-screens-in-cars/41516#41516|Dark Screens in Cars]] a discussion that took off with many good links. 
  * [[http://car-ux.com/|Car UX]] is just a bunch of photos of car control panels. So, continuing the bad tradition of confusing UI with UX. 
 * '''Games''' No matter what they are on, game design is a bit different. Different enough I did not cover it in anything else in this book. Game design resources (TBD) should be referenced generally. 
  * [[http://www.thatgamesux.com/|That Game's UX]] terrific blog on gaming, with all sorts of great UX principles applied or reviewed. 
  * [[http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/205434/Designing_better_controls_for_the_touchscreen_experience.php#comment224220|Designing Better Controls for the Touchscreen Experience]] from Gamasutra.
 * '''Augmented Reality''' - Not really a platform like the others, I have seen enough good stuff that is really pushing the bounds of what we think of as interaction and interface that I think AR also needs a separate and robust set of standards. I have also used an Occulus Rift and it. Is. Awesome. AR and VR is maybe going to happen and we need to not be surprised by it and muddle through this transition. We need standards. Now. 
  * [[Augmented Reality Standards and Examples]] that I have gathered
  * [[http://www.w3.org/community/ar/|W3C Working Group on AR Standards]]
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Eric works in Sydney, Australia. Steven lives in the Kansas City, Missouri (US) area. 

We're pretty busy with day jobs, freelance jobs and so on. But if we're scheduled to go somewhere and talk about anything remotely related to mobile (and it's an open meeting you can come to) we'll [[Speaking|post it here]].
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We (and especially Steven) write a lot still. [[Mentions, Reviews & Other Writing|Here we've gathered]] a list of articles of note, articles in which we're mentioned or interviewed, and reviews or other important mentions of this book.
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