On Sony Ericsson Developer World was just published a cool video showing off the speed and rich effects that are possible on the XPERIA™ X10 mini. The great news is that the UI software development team at Sony Ericsson is preparing some tutorials so that developers can use the same UI features!
Read more here.
(via MobileCrunch) - The first videos of Symbian 4 have just been released for public consumption:
And I must agree with the following comment:
The first videos of Symbian^4 have just been released for public consumption, and we can’t help but notice that they seem very.. uninspired. Actually, perhaps that’s inaccurate. They’re very inspired. Directly inspired. By the competition.
New useful resource released by teehan+lax to help designers who want to begin working on iPad projects and create custom UI elements on the fly:
Now that Apple has officially released the iPad we want to start designing for it. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly. We decided to take a page from our iPhone GUI PSD and create one for the iPad.
Read the full post here and/or download the iPad GUI PSD.
UX Magazine published a very interesting article summarizing most important considerations (from Apple) to take in mind designing application for the iPad.
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPad outline how to create user interfaces optimized for the iPad device. According to Apple, the best iPad applications: downplay application UI so that the focus is on content; present content in beautiful, often realistic ways; and take full advantage of device capabilities to enable enhanced interaction. [...]
Read the full article here.
Apple today announced the long awaited iPad! A great device and a completely new world for devices developers:
The best way to experience the web, email, photos, and video. Hands down. Imagine being able to page through websites, write an email, flick through photos, or watch a movie. All on a big, beautiful, Multi-Touch screen. With just the touch of a finger. Read all details here.
As expected Adobe announced the upcoming support (Packager for iPhone) for the increased screen size and resolution of the iPad. Exciting! Let's wait further news on the topic.
Symbian Foundation revealed some details about the new Symbian UI and made available an open discussion to the community for questions, comments, suggestions, requests, and generally anything that relates to this proposal. The corresponding Major Contribution Proposals are Orbit and Direct UI. This simple mockup reminds me something like Android and its homescreen widgets. Let's see what will happen... More info below:
- Orbit: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Prop/Orbit#Current_drafts
- Direct UI: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/in...Prop/Direct_UI
- Symbian UI Concept Proposal submitted by Nokia on 14 January 2010: http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/im...roposal_v2.doc
FITC Amsterdam tickes are out for sale! It sounds like it'll be a really great event this year with lots of mobile-related sessions!
If you were lucky enough to attend FITC Amsterdam '08 or '09, then you know what it's all about. If you missed it, grab a ticket now before they're all gone. We've sold out the last two years and expect the same for 2010. There is no other event quite like it! The combination of unbelievable international presenters, incredible networking opportunities and the infamous FITC parties, all with the amazing backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, creates a stage set for the unexpected.
• Includes access to the full festival on Feb 23 & 24 (Mon-Tues) and full access to all evening events
• Over 40 educational and inspirational presentations, panels, and workshops
• 4 Tracks of presentations in Technical, Creative, and Business
• Exhibition area displaying Flash-related tools, products & services
• Includes official FITC grab bag
(via crunchgear.com) - Litl is a new, innovative webbook from a Boston-located company. Litl is a completely new and simple way for everyone in the family to enjoy online photos and all the web has to offer. The litl webbook, an Internet computer for the home, blends the engaging content and social interactivity of the web with high-quality TV-like viewing of online photos and other digital content.
Scott Janousek started a new blog which covers developing Flash content for the litl webbook, as well as sharing ideas about this new computing platform.
According to Scott, litl apparently supports *both* Flash Lite, as well as Flash Player 10. However, it depends on the mode you place the litl in. Flash Lite is used for channel content when in "easel mode". When a user is surfing around in webbook mode, the browser supportsFlash Player 10 for Flash content consumption on the web. Sounds pretty cool!
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