5 Mobile Design Patterns for a Successful App
Nice quick summary of a few of the very common/successful mobile design patterns that can contribute to a well-received app.
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Bootstrap Material
Material Design for Bootstrap is a theme for Bootstrap 3 which let you use the new Google Material Design in your favourite front-end framework.
Framer – Prototyping Tool
A prototyping tool for animation and interaction on desktop and mobile.
The Perfect Umbrella
Let’s not beat around the bush; umbrellas generally suck. For a relatively complex invention, we’ve reduced it to its most basic, pathetic version when we’re buying one for $5 on a street corner in New York, only to have it snap in half a block away and have to buy a new one 5 minutes later. What would form your ideal/most perfect umbrella?
- Something strong, light, and small — maybe inspiration from trekking poles for the main pole?
- A good grip that I can hang onto, without getting a sore/cramped hand
- Wind billow/”Gust Buster” design of some sort to ensure that it doesn’t flip inside out/break in the wind
- Double/triple fold so that the folded product is nice and small
- Push to expand AND retract. Ideally all the way down (although I don’t know how technically feasible that is)
- Actually waterproof material. Too many umbrellas start leaking (especially around the central point) once they’ve been rained on a lot
What else would make your perfect umbrella? Can someone get right on it and Kickstarter this thing plz? Kthxbai 🙂
* Image from here.
The Kano Model
Interesting thought model for categorizing features, and deciding what to build, when.
jQuery Mobile Flat Theme
A really slick looking theme for jQuery Mobile that’s very flat (no shadows etc).
Screensiz.es
A pretty thorough grid of phone, tablet and desktop screensizes.