There is not much literature in the area of mobile user interface design. This book is not written completely by Christian Lindholm and Turkka Keinonen, though; this book has several authors from Nokia.It is an exciting and good-looking book on the history and background of the extremely successful Nokia mobile phone design. It is very down-to-earth and visionary at the same time. If you work in the area of user interface design for mobile devices, this is a must-read. There are many new ideas in this book.
The form like Nokia expose their innovations, the form so simple of attracting the reader the simplicity of their designs makes of this book of necessary utility to understand the reasons for which the cellular telephony will dominate and it will be imposed in the short term market.
Written with insight by two veterans of Nokia's design triumphs (co-author Christian Lindholm was featured in the August 2002 issue of Business 2.0 magazine)this one-of-a-kind reference vividly delivers:
- The complete design process, from concept creation to product testing
- The future of small interfaces
- Usability engineering in practice in the mobile environment
- The elements of a Nokia User Interface
- First person accounts of the product development cycle
When it comes to delivering product design innovations to mobile device users, Nokia is the yardstick by which all others are judged. Now the process and working methods that have enabled Nokia to revolutionize usability are fully explained for the first time in this beautiful, four-color book.
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- Authors: Christian Lindholm, Turkka Keinonen
- List Price: $39.95
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- Paperback: 301 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (June 19, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071385142
- ISBN-13: 978-0071385145
- Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches