Android Design in Action Podcast: Design Consistency
In yesterday's Android Design in Action video podcast Nick Butcher and Roman Nurik talked about design consistency on Android. This is a topic that keeps...
View ArticleWatch this: DevBytes: Making Apps Beautiful
Ankur Kotwal from Google just released the fifth part of his DevBytes: Making Apps Beautiful series to the Android Developers YouTube...
View ArticleGoogle I/O 2013 App Source Code Now Available
Google has released the source code for the Google I/O app. For years, this has been the best example app around and this year it is no exception. The app UI...
View ArticleYahoo! Weather App - A Beautiful Design Failure
It is not often when you run into an app that demonstrates both best and worst design and implementation out there. But Yahoo! has done it with...
View ArticleMatias Duarte Talks About the Role of Android Guidelines
The head of Android design at Google, Matias Duarte, posted a great post to G+ about the role of consistency and Android design guidelines. The post is a...
View ArticleYahoo! Weather App: a Followup
Yesterday, I wrote an article pointing out issues in the new Yahoo! Weather app. To my surprise, the post has turned out to be quite a controversial one. Here...
View ArticleThe New Yardstick for the Best Android Design is Here - Timely Alarm Clock
Tasks app is something I've been using as an example of great and simple Android app in many occasions. It's one of the apps that took the new Android design...
View ArticleAndroid Asset Studio Nine-patch Generator Update Adds an Interactive Preview
Nine-patches are one of the most powerful graphical components for creating scalable Android apps. They are, however, sometimes difficult to understand...
View ArticleGoogle's Android Apps Look Boring - And It's a Good Thing
This is a post I've been wanting to write for years, but it hasn't been possible before. Google's apps on Android have been a similar mixture of...
View ArticleTaylor Ling's UI Design Kit updated. Also for GIMP.
Taylor Ling has updated his awesome design kit to 4.3. The update contains tons of new updates and it's all available for free from hiswebsite.Check out...
View ArticleHow Following Android Guidelines Can Change Users' Perception of Your App
Sometimes when installing random apps from Google Play I run into apps that are great positive surprises and stand out from the masses. In this case this...
View ArticleGet Up to Speed with Android 4.4 Design - Watch this: ADiA
I've been reading about new APIs and services available in the new Android 4.4, KitKat, release. It looks like this release is another big step forwards with...
View ArticleMore About Android 4.4 from Google's Developer Advocates and Engineers
There's tons of information about Android 4.4 all over the Android developer site. I bet we've all been sifting through the information overload yesterday and...
View ArticleGoing responsive with Google Play - a presentation by the Google Play team
Kirill Grouchnikov often talks about the design and development of Google Play Android app and lets us see behind the curtain of the most used Android app...
View ArticleHTC Maximizes User Frustration with their UX Design
It's a sad day when I have to write a negative post about an app that was built by one of the Android phone manufacturers I really like. But in this case I...
View ArticleAwesome Android Design - slides by Nick Butcher
Nick Butcher from Google gave a presentation on "Awesome Android Design" in the GDG Sydney meetup. While the presentation itself unfortunately isn't...
View ArticleSamsung Delivers a Pile of Failure in Their Olympic App
Onboarding experience What Samsung has done with their first-time experience is stunning. To me this is by far the worst what I've seen. I'd be very...
View ArticleOn the Importance of Supporting User Goals, an Example
If you have seen any of my conference presentations you are aware that I keep raving about understanding and supporting user goals in your app design....
View ArticleWatch This: Material Design in the 2014 Google I/O App
Material design is something that I have not had time to write about yet (but believe when I say that I will!). Fortunately there's no...
View ArticleRevisiting Yahoo! Apps
Yahoo! have been busy building Android apps some of which are among the most beautiful apps on the platform. When the first of the new generation...
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