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Your Cart - Facebook Brand Resources. UI Guidelines for mobile and tablet web app design. Official user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) guidelines from the manufacturers, links to which you can find below, are a source of inspiration for mobile web and app design. Here, you will find guidelines, samples, tips, and descriptions of common mistakes. Many of the guidelines focus on native application development, but we can apply most parts of them to mobile web design too. Remember to provide the best possible experience on each platform.

Do not deliver an iPhone experience to a BlackBerry user. Every platform has its own UI and usability guidelines that every user is expecting on your app. More tips on mobile web design on the Programming the Mobile Web book. Do you know any other UI Guideline? Tags: android, bada, design, ipad, iphone, nokia, sony ericsson, symbian, ui, windows. Facebook mobile | Search Results. First Look: WD TV Live Streaming Media Player | Fox ... | TV UI/UX ... Ui | TV UI/UX Design. Exploring Graphic User Interface Styles – from Minimal to Futuristic. A user interface (UI) can come in many styles ranging graphically from very simple, all the way to extremely complex. In this article we are going to explore a range of styles demonstrating that there isn't just one recipe for creating a good looking, and ultimately successful user interface. Of course, not every style is represented in this article; we will be exploring several high-quality examples, representing a wide range of graphical styles from simple to complex.

Enjoy! Section 1: Minimal A minimal style UI relies heavily on type, symbols, and white space to create a clear and simple user experience. HelvetiNote™ HelvetiNote™ by cypher13 uses a great mix of font weights and sizes, as well as thoughtfully placed icons and interface elements to form a fantastically minimal UI. HTC 1 Concept When designer Andrew Kim decided to concept a new piece of hardware, he envisioned a complete solution marrying the hardware and user interface.

Things Section 2: Detailed Graphical Bills Beats Quarian. Index of /wp-content/uploads. Adding Animations. Animations can add subtle visual cues that notify users about what's going on in your app and improve their mental model of your app's interface. Animations are especially useful when the screen changes state, such as when content loads or new actions become available.

Animations can also add a polished look to your app, which gives your app a higher quality feel. Keep in mind though, that overusing animations or using them at the wrong time can be detrimental, such as when they cause delays. This training class shows you how to implement some common types of animations that can increase usability and add flair without annoying your users.

Lessons Crossfading Two Views Learn how to crossfade between two overlapping views. Using ViewPager for Screen Slides Learn how to animate between horizontally adjacent screens with a sliding transition. Displaying Card Flip Animations Learn how to animate between two views with a flipping motion. Zooming a View Animating Layout Changes. Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes. Advertisement In darts, hitting the bulls-eye is harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bullseye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets on mobile devices. Smaller touch targets are harder for users to hit than larger ones. When you’re designing mobile interfaces, it’s best to make your targets big so that they’re easy for users to tap. But exactly how big should you make them to give the best ease of use to the majority of your users?

(Image credit: ogimogi) What the Mobile Platform Guidelines Say Apple’s iPhone Human Interface Guidelines recommends a minimum target size of 44 pixels wide 44 pixels tall. While these guidelines give a general measurement for touch targets, they’re not consistent with each other, nor are they consistent with the actual size of the human finger. Small Touch Targets Lead to Big Problems Small touch targets make users work harder because they require more accuracy to hit.

(al) (fi) Collection of Fresh and Professional GUI Sets. Every web designer is aware of the benefits of using pre-designed GUI sets, particularly when they are as comprehensive, as sophisticated, and as modern as the sets we have for you today. Some of the free gui sets have been designed for the web, others for mobile apps, and some have even been created to help you design infographics.

So, no matter what project you are currently working on, you will find something useful below: Lookamore UI Kit for Android Download Page → Polaris Free GUI Set Download Page → Light Grey UI Kit Download Page → Kitchy UI Kit Download Page → Web App UI Download Page → Ruthenium GUI Kit Download Page → UI Set Download Page → UI Kit Download Page → Light Web UI Kit Download Page → Putty Pack Free GUI Sets Download Page → Light Blue-Green UI Kit Download Page → Awesomeness UI Widgets Download Page → Knóbz UI Kit Download Page → Freebie by Dominique Torfs Download Page → Cute UI Kit Download Page → Soft UI Set Download Page → Caramel UI Download Page → Dark Music UI Elements Download Page → Sparo.

TV Design Patterns - Google TV. This is a guide to developing user interfaces for Android applications running on Google TV. Although there are few internal differences between an Android application for a phone and one for Google TV, there are differences in the user interface. The viewing environment of a television is commonly referred to as the ten foot (10ft) environment and the television screen as the 10ft UI.

When you create apps for the 10ft environment, remember these basic concepts: The 10ft environment is traditionally for consuming content. The 10ft environment is a fun environment, not a work environment. The 10ft environment is usually a social environment, not a single-user environment. The viewing experience for a 10ft UI is a mix of computer and TV. Read about each of these concepts (and more) in the following sections. The 10ft Environment The most fundamental idea is that the television has traditionally been for consuming content. TV Displays Here are some guidelines for your UI design: Table 1.

20 Free GUI Templates for 'Flat' Web Design. All of the UI templates and kits we have for you today have been designed in a Flat style. Meaning they have been created ‘without the usual gradients, pixel perfect shadows, and skeuomorphism…’ All of the kits are free, editable, and all are perfect for quickly creating web and mobile mockups. Flat UI Kit (PSD) Rampy Flat UI Kit (PSD) Flat Ui Kit (PSD) Mountain Flat UI Kit (PSD) Flat UI Kit (PSD) Flat Ui by NAS (PSD) UI Kit by Kamal Chaneman (PSD) Modern Flat UI Kit (PSD) Flat UI Kit (Sketch) Flat Blog UI Kit (PSD) by PSDExplorer Square UI (PSD) by DesignModo Flat Widget UI Kit (PSD) by Riki Tanone Flat UI (PSD) by Andy Law UI Kit (PSD) by Abhimanyu Rana UI Kit (PSD) by Jamie Syke Flat UI Kit (PSD) by VisualCreative Web App Flat UI (PSD) by Blaz Robar Minimal UI Kit (PSD) by ThemeDesigner Flat Web Elements (PSD) by Alexey Anatolievich Web Browser UI Elements (PSD) by Bluroon Flat Event Creation (PSD) by Seth Ely Flat UI Buttons (PSD) by Alex Vanderzon Flat Mini UI Player (PSD) by David Magère.

User Experience Trends for Admin Dashboards. The design techniques for admin dashboards are not as openly shared as website layouts. This is because you do not always find examples of admin designs open on the web. To gain access you would need a user/password combo, so designers are often left building with trends found in other examples. But the dashboard interface has grown very quickly as a popular layout style for administrators. In this article I want to look into various styles and ideas for creating administration dashboard pages. Tabbed Navigation Utilizing tab buttons for page navigation has been a common trend for years.

Any form of tabbed link design can work for a navbar. I can’t make the claim that every control panel navigation should be using tabs. Toolbar Icons I had briefly mentioned icons earlier but I think this design trend is important even outside of navigation. Modern designers have a much easier time building these interfaces because of the many freebie icon releases to be found online. Popover Hover Menus. HEIMA. Smart Home Automation UI. on Behance. Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources. Advertisement To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give your idea a certain shape, keeping it abstract and not losing yourself in details.

In this post, we’ve prepared an overview of useful web and mobile user interface kits, handy PDFs and resources that you can use in your projects. We’ve carefully selected the most useful kits and resources to get you going in the early stages of a project. Free Mobile GUI PSD Android GUI PSD1 This Android GUI PSD is based on elements of the Android 1.5 GUI and was made to help the open-source community with its Android application mock-ups. RIM Blackberry PSD2 A complete PSD file with layer styles, this has 135 layers of Photoshop goodness. Android Sketch Stencil Version 1.03 A Sketch-style Android OmniGraffle template.

Menus. Menus are a common user interface component in many types of applications. To provide a familiar and consistent user experience, you should use the Menu APIs to present user actions and other options in your activities. Beginning with Android 3.0 (API level 11), Android-powered devices are no longer required to provide a dedicated Menu button. With this change, Android apps should migrate away from a dependence on the traditional 6-item menu panel and instead provide an action bar to present common user actions. Although the design and user experience for some menu items have changed, the semantics to define a set of actions and options is still based on the Menu APIs. This guide shows how to create the three fundamental types of menus or action presentations on all versions of Android: Options menu and action bar The options menu is the primary collection of menu items for an activity.

See the section about Creating an Options Menu. Context menu and contextual action mode Popup menu. Iconography. An icon is a graphic that takes up a small portion of screen real estate and provides a quick, intuitive representation of an action, a status, or an app. When you design icons for your app, it's important to keep in mind that your app may be installed on a variety of devices that offer a range of pixel densities, as mentioned in Devices and Displays. But you can make your icons look great on all devices by providing each icon in multiple sizes. When your app runs, Android checks the characteristics of the device screen and loads the appropriate density-specific assets for your app. Because you will deliver each icon in multiple sizes to support different densities, the design guidelines below refer to the icon dimensions in dp units, which are based on the pixel dimensions of a medium-density (MDPI) screen.

Launcher The launcher icon is the visual representation of your app on the Home or All Apps screen. Sizes & scale Launcher icons on a mobile device must be 48x48 dp. Proportions Style. Menus.