ZURB was truly hopping at last Friday, with our largest ZURBsoapbox turnout ever for Peter Skillman’s talk. We loved having one last heart to heart with the man who’s all over the internet these days before he jumped on the plane to start his new job at Nokia. Peter left all of us with some great lessons learned for creating awesome mobile experiences.
http://www.zurb.com/article/438/-podcast-of-peter-skillmans-talk-on-innov
Tapworthy apps cope with small screens and fleeting user attention to make every pixel count, every tap rewarding. Learn to: Focus your feature set and simplify your interface; use iPhone gestures and controls the Apple way; forge ahead with your own custom views; and craft efficient but personality-packed visuals. Look over the shoulders of the best developers with real-life examples that follow app designs from early sketches to finished product.
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Due to their mobility, intimacy, and sheer strength in numbers, mobile phones have become much more than simply "miniature computers," increasingly serving as personal and "natural" extensions of ourselves. Therein lies immense potential to reshape the way we think and do, and especially in how we engage one another socially.
This presentation explores the iPhone as a unique platform for creating new expressive, social mediums. As case studies, we demonstrate and examine how Smule’s "social sonic artifacts" (e.g., Sonic Lighter, and Ocarina) were able to take full advantage of the iPhone’s intersection of technologies (multitouch, powerful mobile CPU and GPU, full audio pipeline, GPS/location, persistent data connection via 3G/Edge) to provide a unique experience that is at once expressive on a personal level, and social on a global scale.