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    The Mobile Frontier

    • The Mobile Frontier

    • By: Rachel Hinman

    • Publisher: Rosenfeld Media

    • Pub. Date:

    • Pages in Print Edition: 280

    • Subscriber Rating: 3.5 out of 5 rating3.5 [2 Ratings]

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    Overview

    Mobile user experience is a new frontier. Untethered from a keyboard and mouse, this rich design space is lush with opportunity to invent new and more human ways for people to interact with information.

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    Table of Contents

     

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    Cover Page

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    Title Page

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    Copyright Page

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    DEDICATION

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    HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
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    Who Should Read This Book?

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    What’s in This Book?
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    Section One: What Makes Mobile Different?

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    Section Two: Emergent Mobile Patterns

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    Section Three: Crafting Mobile Experiences

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    Section Four: The Future of Mobile UX

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    What Comes with This Book?

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    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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    Why is mobile UX such a hot topic right now?

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    What makes mobile user experience and design different?

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    What modifications to my existing design processes do I need to make to create good mobile experiences?

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    How do I design for touchscreen experiences?

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    Should I design a native mobile app, a mobile Web app, or a mobile Web site?

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    What does the future hold? What’s next for mobile user experience?

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    CONTENTS

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    FOREWORD

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    CHAPTER 1 Casting Off Anchors: Preparing to Explore the Mobile Frontier
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    The Golden Age of Mobile

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    Casting Off Anchors from the Past

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    Section One: What Makes Mobile Different?

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    Section Two: Emergent Mobile Patterns

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    Section Three: Crafting Mobile Experiences

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    Section Four: The Future of Mobile UX

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    CHAPTER 2 The Emergent Mobile NUI Paradigm: Traversing the GUI/NUI Chasm
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    The Emergent Mobile Paradigm

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    A Paradigm Shift Is Underway
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    Widespread Adoption of Mobile Devices

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    Reaching the Edge of What GUIs Can Do

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    The Evolution of User Interfaces
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    Command Line Interfaces

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    Graphical User Interfaces

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    Natural User Interfaces

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    Organic User Interfaces

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    The Emergent Mobile NUI Paradigm
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    Stuck in the GUI/NUI Chasm

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    Mastering NUI Fundamentals

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    Eight Principles of Natural User Interfaces

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    Past and Present Computing Paradigms
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    Computers as Person

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    Computers as Tool

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    Computers as Media

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    Future Computing Paradigms
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    Computers as Organic Material

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    Computers as Infrastructure

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    Computers as Social Currency

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    Summary

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    CHAPTER 3 Peanut Butter in Denver: Demystifying the Elusive Mobile Context
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    It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...

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    Developing Empathy for Context
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    Focus on Creating Experiences That Are Uniquely Mobile

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    Solutions Versus Need

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    Mastering Constraints

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    Design for Partial Attention and Interruption

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    PC Experiences Are Like Scuba Diving; Mobile Experiences Are Like Snorkeling

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    Multitasking and Task Switching

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    Reduce Cognitive Load and Opportunity Cost

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    Mobile Context Design Tips

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    Mobile Context Design Method: Brainstorming in the Wild

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    Mobile Context Framework: Nouns and Relationships
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    Spatial Relationships

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    Temporal Relationships

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    Social Relationships

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    Semantic Relationships

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    Peanut Butter in Denver?

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    Mobile UX Beachhead

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    Summary

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    CHAPTER 4 Shapeshifting: Convergence and Multidevice Experiences
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    What Is Convergence?

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    Convergence and Mobility
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    Mobile Devices Are Enabling Convergence

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    Three Levels of Convergence

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    Technology Convergence

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    Media Convergence

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    Activity Convergence

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    What Is a Device Ecosystem?
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    Why Ecosystems Matter

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    Designing for Ecosystems: Where to Start?

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    Mutual Reconfiguration and Multidevice Experiences

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    Identifying Ecosystem Relationships Through Participatory Design
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    Participatory Design

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    Role Play and Participatory Design

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    Environments

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    Props

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    Stimuli

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    Creating Experiences That Scale
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    Coherence

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    Synchronization

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    Screen Sharing

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    Device Shifting

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    Complementary

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    Simultaneity

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    Mobile Web Site, Web App, or Native App?
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    Which Should You Create?

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    Responsive Web Design

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    Summary

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    CHAPTER 5 Mobile UX Patterns: Designing for Mobility
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    The Structure of a Design Factor

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    Mobile Design Patterns

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    Mobile UX Pattern #1: “The Cloud” and Applications as Natural Set Points for Mobile Experiences
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    Set Points and Mobile Experiences

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    “The Cloud” as a Set Point

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    Applications as a Set Point

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    Emerging Application Types

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    Core Application

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    Widgets

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    Feed-Focused Applications

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    Consumption-Focused Applications

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    Search/Find Application

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    Search/Find/Transact Application

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    Tool Application

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    Game Application

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    Mobile Pattern #2: Good Mobile Experiences Progressively Reveal their Nature
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    Shrinky Dinks and Mobile UX

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    PC Design Patterns: Anchors, Stacking, and Recognition

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    Unfolding, “Topping in” to Information and Intuition

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    Design Considerations for Mobile Experiences That Unfold

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    Mobile Pattern #3: Content Becomes the Interface
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    Examples of Skeuomorphic User Interfaces

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    Design Strategies

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    The Rise of Interconnected Information

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    NUIs, Gestures, and the Rise of the Super Real

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    Mobile Pattern #4: Use Uniquely Mobile Input Mechanisms
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    Video

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    Photos (Photos, RFID/QR Codes)

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    Voice

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    Sound

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    GPS

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    Sensors

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    Near Field Communication (NFC)

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    Mobile Pattern #5: Say Good-Bye to Done
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    Interactions That Accrue Value Over Time

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    Interactions That Facilitate Exploration

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    Interactions That Sense Intent

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    Summary

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    CHAPTER 6 Mobile Prototyping: Tools and Methods for Designing Mobile Experiences

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    The Design Process
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    Discover

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    Define

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    Develop

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    Deliver

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    Where Things Usually Go Wrong

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    Prototyping
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    Communicate a Design Idea or Experience

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    Gather User Feedback

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    Exploring the Unknowns

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    Fine-Tune an Idea

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    Genres of Mobile Prototyping

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    Tactical Prototyping
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    Sketching

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    Mobile Templates

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    Sketching and Ruthless Editing

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    Visualizing Data on a Small Screen

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    Paper Prototyping

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    Paper Prototyping Basics

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    Paper Prototyping and Touchscreens

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    Interactive On-Device Prototyping

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    In-Screen Mobile Prototype

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    Mobile Browser Prototype

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    Mobile Prototype Using Presentation Software

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    Platform-Specific Prototype

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    Pros and Cons of Common On-Device Prototyping Tools

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    In-Screen Prototype Basics

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    Experiential Prototyping
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    Storyboarding

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    Mobile UX Storyboarding Basics

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    Bodystorming

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    Guidelines for Bodystorming

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    Speed Dating Prototyping

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    Concept Videos

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    Three Prototyping Truisms
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    Choose the Appropriate Fidelity

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    Embrace Failure

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    Prototyping Is Not a Panacea

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    Summary

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    CHAPTER 7 Motion and Animation: A New Mobile UX Design Material
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    Principle 1: Squash and Stretch

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    Principle 2: Anticipation

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    Principle 3: Staging

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    Principle 4: Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose

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    Principle 5: Follow-Through and Overlapping Action

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    Principle 6: Slow In and Out

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    Principle 7: Arcs

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    Principle 8: Secondary Action

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    Principle 9: Timing

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    Principle 10: Exaggeration

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    Principles 11 and 12: Solid Drawing and Appeal

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    Methods for Specifying Motion in Your Work
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    Sketching

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    Wireframing

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    Prototyping

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    Summary

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    CHAPTER 8 Awakening the Senses: Touch, Gesture, Voice, and Sound

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    Touch
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    Optimize for Generous Touch Targets

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    Mapping the Screen for Touch

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    Smartphones and the “Thumb Zone”

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    What About Tablets?

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    Lead with the Content, Not Interface Elements

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    Five Touchscreen Affordance Strategies

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    Haptics

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    Gestures: Let’s Get Physical!
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    Introduce New Gestures by Building on Familiar Ones

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    Provide Feedback with an Additional Sense

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    Be Creative and Patient!

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    Voice and Sound
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    When to Use Voice

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    Flattening Menus

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    Mobile UX Sense Case Study: iPhone’s Siri

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    Swing for the Fences When Thinking about the Senses

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    Summary

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    CHAPTER 9 New Mobile Forms: Pioneering the Mobile Frontier
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    The Shifting Boundary Between Computers and the Human Body

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    The Shifting Boundary Between Computers and the Environment

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    Mobiles and Emerging Markets
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    Leapfrogging the PC

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    Cultural Practices and Technology

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    M-PESA

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    Ushahidi

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    Project Masiluleke

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    Pioneering the Mobile Frontier

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    Index

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    FIGURE CREDITS

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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    Footnotes
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    Chapter 4

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    Chapter 6

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    Chapter 8

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