Theres Not an App for That: Mobile User Experience Design for Life

There’s Not an App for That will make your work stand out from the crowd. It walks you through mobile experiences, and teaches you to evaluate current UX approaches, enabling you to think outside of the screen and beyond the conventional. You’ll review diverse aspects of mobile UX: the screens, the experience, how apps are used, and why they’re used. You’ll find special sections on "challenging your approach", as well as a series of questions you can use to critique and evaluate your own designs. Whether the authors are discussing real-world products in conjunction with suggested improvements, showcasing how existing technologies can be put together in unconventional ways, or even evaluating "far out" mobile experiences of the future, you’ll find plenty of practical pointers and action items to help you in your day-to-day work.

Provides you with new and innovative ways to think about mobile designIncludes future mobile interfaces and interactions, complete with real-world, applied information that teaches you how today’s mobile services can be improvedIllustrates themes from existing systems and apps to show clear paths of thought and development, enabling you to better design for the future

1. Introduction

2. From Touch To Feeling

3. Inspired By Food

4. Inspired By Fashion

5. Inspired By Fitness

6. Inspired By Materials

7. From Heads Down To Face On

8. In Your Face Technology

9. In The World Approaches

10. From Clinical To Clutter

11. Inspired By Mass

12. Inspired By Uncertainty

13. From Private And Personal To Public And Performance

14. Mobiles As Props

15. Extravagant Computing

16. From Distanced To Mindful Interaction

17. Designing Mindful Communication Apps

18. Mindfulness Without Apps

19. From Some To All

20. Bringing Things Together