Mobile Design Questions

>> 2 Questions:
>> 1. Are there any mobile design patterns available?
>> 2. Are there standard mobile screen resolutions to design for?

Hi Daniel,

quick answers to your 2 questions.

1. Mobile Design Patterns

I would start by having a look at Barbara Ballard's set of mobile UI patterns:
http://patterns.littlespringsdesign.com/wikka.php?wakka=MobilePatterns&show_comments=1 <http://patterns.littlespringsdesign.com/wikka.php?wakka=MobilePatterns&show_comments=1>

The patterns / guidelines that will be relevant to you will be determined by what you are designing. For mobile web/ WAP design, have a look at the W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ <http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/> ) or the DotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide
(http://dev.mobi/node/197 <http://dev.mobi/node/197> ).

If you are designing for a specific handset OS UI (i.e. Windows Mobile, Series 60, UIQ), check out the corresponding UI style guides. A list of links to the various OS UI styleguides can be found in my posting in the 'Mobile UI standards' thread (http://beta.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=17290
<http://beta.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=17290> ) from June of this year or last year's 'Mobile UI Guidelines' http://beta.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=10206 <http://beta.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=10206> for the links.

If you are designing a downloadable application (i.e. Java, BREW, etc.), have a look at the corresponding styleguides:

* MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for the Java(tm) Platform, Micro Edition: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/midp/UI <http://java.sun.com/docs/books/midp/UI>
* BREW Developer Site: http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/developer/overview.html <http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/developer/overview.html>

2. This will be determined by the handsets that you are designing for. Some standard sizes include:

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128 x 160 px / 120 x 160 pixels (QQVGA)
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176 x 220 px (QCIF+)
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240 x 320px (QVGA)
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320x480px (iPhone)

Hope this helps,
Markus

Hi Daniel,

Stumbled upon these two sometime ago:

http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2006/12/mobile-design-patterns/

http://patterns.littlespringsdesign.com/wikka.php?wakka=MobilePatterns

Might be good leads to a few more.

Cheers!

Kara

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