What happens when people use a smartphone to connect with your website or application? Are they delighted or frustrated? With more than a million touch-screen phones shipping every day, it’s vital that you design your site to appeal to the mobile crowd. In this video workshop, Luke Wroblewski shows you design best practices that include the organization, actions, inputs, and layout necessary to deliver a satisfying experience to people with modern mobile devices.
Through numerous examples, you’ll learn how to::
Use “content first/navigate second” organizational structures optimized for small screens and mobile use cases
Design for touch interactions with appropriate targets and gestures
Construct forms and input fields to make input on mobile easier and more frequent
Manage layouts across multiple devices with ruthless editing, device classes, and responsive/flexible designs
That’s just a sample of what you’ll learn with this video. Armed with these design best practices and principles, you can make sure people have a great mobile web experience whenever they visit your site.
Luke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized digital product leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 700 million people worldwide.
Luke was Co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Bagcheck which was acquired by Twitter Inc. just nine months after being launched publicly. Prior to this, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital and the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo! Inc. where he worked on product alignment and forward-thinking integrated customer experiences on the Web, mobile, TV, and beyond.
Luke is the author of the upcoming book Mobile First, two already popular Web design books (Web Form Design & Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability) and many articles about digital product design and strategy. He is also a consistently top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and a Co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products (such as eBay Express and Kijiji) and internal tools and processes. He also founded LukeW Ideation & Design, a product strategy and design consultancy, taught graduate interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.
Luke's complete resume and recommendations are available on LinkedIn.
Comments about oreilly Luke Wroblewski on Designing for Mobile First:
This Master class provides a really good overview of the mobile web's current state and where it's heading. It also points out the opportunities and constraints of mobile devices and provides good advice on how to design for them.
Luke Wroblewski is very knowledgeable and explains the topic in a clear and concise manner.
The quality of the video is good but I have one concern with the video files and that is that they are not ordered right. So if you download them for offline use you will have to keep track yourself in which order to watch them, or like I did, edit their meta data so that they sort right. This problem does not apply if you watch the videos online.
All in all I think the video is well worth watching.
9/11/2011
5.0
Factual, informative and insightful!
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Comments about oreilly Luke Wroblewski on Designing for Mobile First:
Brilliant talk by Luke. I have been following his blog for a short-while... and this talk makes it easier to comprehend all the information and data he posts.
It's a must watch for anyone developing and/or designing for the web. He lists quite a lot nuances we should consider when developing for mobile web.
