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Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone ISBN: 0071385142 ISBN13: 9780071385145 Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone By: Christian Lindholm ; Turkka Keinonen ; Harri Kiljander Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Paperback Our Price: 21.74 Discount: 13% RRP: 24.99

This book contains dozens of informative, full-color illustrations! Understand Nokia's user interfaces and the philosophy behind them. When it comes to delivering product design innovations to mobile device users, Nokia is the company against which all others are judged. Now, the philosophies and working methods by which Nokia revolutionized product usability are explained for the first time in Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone .Written with great insight by Nokia experts, this book offers clear and practical guidance on how to provide maximum usability to end-users, including first-hand coverage of: the elements of a Nokia user interface; the Nokia design philosophy, from concept creation to product testing; the future of small interfaces; user interface styles; six mobile messages; usability engineering in practice in the mobile environment; and much, much more! Plus, the book features a wealth of vivid illustrations, all constructed to help you incorporate new ideas and concepts into your work. With Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone , you can deliver to your users the wide range of benefits mobile technology has for so long been promising.


Contents:

PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Mobile DistinctionsPART 1: DOMINANT DESIGN IN MOBILE USER INTERFACESChapter 1

User Interface StylesChapter 2

Takeout Menus: Elements of Nokia's Mobile User InterfaceChapter 3

The Navi-Key StoryPART 2: LIVING WITH MOBILESChapter 4

Indian Needs -- Cultural End-User Research in MombaiChapter 5

Usability Meets Sociology for Richer Consumer StudiesPART 3: DESIGN AND RESEARCH INTERTWINEDChapter 6

Managing the Design of User InterfacesChapter 7

The One-Row Keyboard -- a Case Study in Mobile Text InputChapter 8

Series 60 Mailbox in Rome -- A Case Study of a Paper Prototyping TourChapter 9

1/4 Samara -- Hardware Prototyping a Driving Simulator EnvironmentChapter 10

Dawn on the Wireless Multimedia HighwayChapter 11

Just-in-Time Usability EngineeringPART 4: MOBILE CONTRADICTIONSChapter 12

The Expressive InterfaceChapter 13

Six Mobile MessagesTelecommunications GlossaryIndex


Brief Description:

Offers guidance on how to provide maximum usability to end-users of Nokia mobile phones. This book provides coverage of: the elements of a Nokia user interface; the Nokia design philosophy, from concept creation to product testing; the future of small interfaces; user interface styles; and six mobile messages.

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