Mobile usability / Jakob Nielsen, Raluca Budiu.

"How do we design the best websites and apps for today's smart phone and tablet users? Best-selling author Jakob Nielsen and coauthor Raluca Budiu offer their key insights into developing a mobile strategy for your client or business and designing and writing for small screens. Their user-...

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Main Author: Nielsen, Jakob, 1957-
Other Authors: Budiu, Raluca
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : New Riders, [2013]
Series:Voices that matter.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Our research : how we ran the usability studies. Diary studies. Usability testing. Qualitative user research
  • 2. Mobile strategy. Usability varies by mobile device category. Mobile site vs. full site. Mobile sites vs. apps : the coming strategy shift. Mobile apps. Half-speed progress, but hope ahead
  • 3. Designing for the small screen. Wasted mobile space. Typing on mobile. Download times. Early registration must die. Case study : the WSJ mobile app
  • 4. Writing for mobile. Mobile content is twice as difficult. If in doubt, leave it out. Defer secondary information to secondary screens. Mini-IA : structuring the information about a concept
  • 5. Tablets and E-readers. iPad usability. Kindle usability
  • 6. Looking toward the future. Transmedia design for the three screens. Beyond Flatland. In the future, we'll all be Harry Potter
  • Appendix: A bit of history. Field study in 2000. WAP doesn't work. Deja vu : 1994 all over again. Mobile killer app: killing time
  • Index.