Mobile First

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Our industry s long wait for the complete, strategic guide to mobile web design is finally over Former Yahoo design architect and co creator of Bagcheck Luke Wroblewski knows about mobile experience than the rest of us, and packs all he knows into this entertaining, to the point guidebook Its data driven strategies and battle tested techniques will make you a master of mobile and improve your non mobile design, too Free Read [ Mobile First ] by [ Luke Wroblewski ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr As noted in the introduction, this isn t a book with code examples to work from see Ethan Marcotte s Responsive Web Design if you wantof that Wroblewski is looking at the big picture rather than implementation the whys and best practices rather than the how to.I was already interested in developing mobile first, but the first section of the book makes a solid case for it and provides enough statistics to help me convince other people I found the best practices sections very useful, w As noted in the introduction, this isn t a book with code examples to work from see Ethan Marcotte s Responsive Web Design if you wantof that Wroblewski is looking at the big picture rather than implementation the whys and best practices rather than the how to.I was already interested in developing mobile first, but the first section of the book makes a solid case for it and provides enough statistics to help me convince other people I found the best practices sections very useful, with good examples of what not to do and some inspiring ideas to use I can come up with the code myself, but what I wanted and got was information about the fuzzier side of things Wroblewski provides research on the user experience side of things, like how people use mobile sites and what their expectations and frustrations are When you can build any sort of site you want, knowing the type of site people would like to use helps narrow down the possibilities If you re not sure this book is for you, I recommend...Luke Wroblewsky can write well This book is full of data and precise examples that make a clearly defined case for designing for mobile first He considers the constraints such as screen size, frequently lower bandwidth, a distracted audience and capabilities such as accelerometers, location detection, and inbuilt cameras that make designing for mobile unique He considers how to lay out information in a manner suited to mobile, interpret mobile specific actions touches , and collect input Luke Wroblewsky can write well This book is full of data and precise examples that make a clearly defined case for designing for mobile first He considers the constraints such as screen size, frequently lower bandwidth, a distracted audience and capabilities such as accelerometers, location detection, and inbuilt cameras that make designing for mobile unique He considers how to lay out information in a manner suited to mobile, inte...While this book makes a compelling case for mobile first development, only the first third ends up actually advocating the practice After a couple chapters citing off statistics and defining the difference between the desktop and mobile, the rest of the book is a consideration of content organization, best practices, and layout...not what I expected, which may have been my fault this book makes the case for why your business needs to focus on mobile, contains a good discussion of how experiences will differ by device outside of technical or physical properties , and a popular overview of mobile design patterns what I was looking for wasa discussion of considerations for implementing responsive web design andof what it means to start with mobile first unfortunately, ive heard the book...Interesting and very insightful, though I thought it a bit unrealistic in terms of the real world using these strategies, and wished the author had occasionally included some code.Maybe this would ve been great if I had read it YEARS ago but most of these discoveries are common sense Just watch Luke s YouTube videos then you ll gain most of what he has to say and .It s a great book but outdated now.The little book that started it all Well, I suppose it may have been the article first, but this came soon after.This is a quick read It contains all the information that you need about Mobile First design The author is experienced in the filed and he knows what he is talking about There are few things to be learn even if you are experienced software developer As accessing the internet from mobile is i...In June and July, eXtension.org had Luke Wroblewski give two presentations on mobile learning Mobile First and Organizing Mobile Web Experiences While I did not have the opportunity to attend the presentations, I did hear good things about his book Mobile First.I received Mobile First on Thursday and read it in one sitting The book is 123 pages of useful material spread out across two parts and seven chapters Part one focuses on why you should pursue a mobile initiative, som...

Mobile First
  • English
  • 04 June 2018
  • Paperback
  • 130 pages
  • Luke Wroblewski
  • Mobile First