Gradual Engagement for Sign Up Forms – 3 articles about how to solve the dilemma with sign up forms

The articles are written by Luke Wroblewski  http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukew

It gives great insights into the importance of desiging sign up forms for mobile apps and how to avoid potential users to drop out just after downloading the app, and actually never use it. One reason for the drop out can be: badly designed sign up forms.

Mobile Sign up Forms MUST DIE

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1678

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s129/sh/b2613e45-c7bd-460f-9ca3-0cc635bc0e69/d6ee8dfd5db88bc25166600fa3834886

Gradual Engagement for Sign Up Forms

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1130

HTML 5 reference poster – very useful

http://www.xhtml-lab.com/html5poster

Some steps for UI improvement

http://www.userfocus.co.uk/articles/improve_your_users_experience.html

HTML 5 web sockets – great tutorial for a real time survey

http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/code-real-time-survey-html5-websockets

Find plenty of other great tutorials on netmagazine.com for different topics from Photoshop to mobile app development.

 

Complexity solved with this great collection of service design tools

A great collection of tools to be used in a design process for complex systems. Some of them are well known and often used typically when designing IT system, like use cases or blueprints. But on this platform you will find many others. Just browse through this great collection and get some inspiration for the next time when you need to solve complex situation with customers

http://www.servicedesigntools.org/

Optimizing mobile websites – Hints and guidelines from google conversion blog (in German language)

Three parts series (maybe more will follow) about optimizing mobile websites from the google conversion blog Germany (in german language). It gives great hints and guidelines what to take into account when creating mobile websites.

Prioritizing content:

http://conversionroom-de.blogspot.com/2011/05/mobile-webseiten-optimieren-teil-1.html

White space:

http://conversionroom-de.blogspot.com/2011/05/mobile-webseiten-optimieren-teil-2.html

Designing buttons for mobile websites:

http://conversionroom-de.blogspot.com/2011/08/mobile-webseiten-optimieren-teil-3-7.html

Donald A. Norman and Jakob Nielsen show us that not everything that can be touched is really mmm

 

Very interesting article claiming usability guidelines for gestural interfaces like touch screens. Unless establishing such guidelines, two steps are taken backwards in usability.

http://jnd.org/dn.mss/gestural_interfaces_a_step_backwards_in_usability_6.html