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Mobile First
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by Luke Wroblewski
Our industry’s long wait for the complete, strategic guide to mobile web design is finally over. Former Yahoo! design architect and co-creator of Bagcheck Luke Wroblewski knows more about mobile experience than the rest of us, and packs all he knows into this entertaining, to-the-point guidebook. Its data-driven strategies and battle tested techniques will make you a master of mobile—and improve your non-mobile design, too!
Contents:
Part 1: Why Mobile First?
- Growth
- Constraints
- Capabilities
Part 2: How to go Mobile
- Organization
- Actions
- Inputs
- Layout
What People Are Saying
Luke doesn’t just rely on his wondrous wit and marvellous writing style to make an overwhelmingly convincing argument for designing the mobile experience first; he also hammers home all of his points with oodles and oodles of scrumptious data.
This is the update to ‘Mobile Web Design’ I wish I’d written. It’s a concise opus filled to the brim with great examples of mobile design, supported by sound advice, research, and tips from Mr. W himself.
By coupling insightful design patterns to common-sense principles, Luke’s ‘Mobile First’ is the beginning of a quiet revolution, its title the rallying cry that should be on the lips of every web designer.
About the Author
Luke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized digital product leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 700 million people worldwide. Most recently Luke was the Chief Product Officer (CPO) and co-founder of Bagcheck, which was acquired by Twitter Inc. in 2011. Before then Luke was Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo! Inc., the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, and a co-founder of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Luke is also the author of Web Form Design and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability and a consistently top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world.
Additional Information
- ISBN: 978-1-937557-02-7
- Paperback: 123 pages
- Also available in: French
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