WAP Design Course: London & NYC
I'll be teaching a "WAP Design" full-day course in London and New York this December.
This course is for designers who want to know how to design for today's phones, using today's mobile browsers. It is filled with examples and exercises geared to ready designers for immediate success.
WAP Design includes XHTML, CSS, and .mobi issues in a designer-focused course covering the following topics:
* WAP Overview
* WAP, including XHTML, CSS, and .mobi
* Successful and Unsuccessful WAP Sites
* Requirements Gathering for Design
* Competitive Analysis of Desktop and Mobile Web Sites
* Mobile Design Patterns
* Expert Design Guidelines
* WAP Design Toolbox
* Wireframing
* Paper Prototyping
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Register for London: 3 December, 2007
Register for New York: 11 December, 2007
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Nissan Altima Coupe Ad is Fantastic
TBWA\Chiat\Day outdid themselves for Nissan's Altima Coupe ad, featured at left. It's beautiful, fascinating, modern, and makes you want to buy a cellphone that looks like a bunch of little cars! I loved it so much that one of my staff got permission from Nissan for me to use the image here on Handheld Usability. I think it indicates how technology can inspire art--just like art can inspire technology. Bang and Olufsen is the firm that most often comes to mind when one thinks of art-inspired technology.
The artwork in the Altima Coupe ad inspired our graphics for the WAP Design course. Molly Bowman created the logos for London & New York.
What is it about the cell phone that inspires art? Is it that the device keeps us in touch, is ever-present in our pocket or purse, and has so many sense-inspiring features? We feel the devices, see them (and their screens), hear them... We don't taste or smell them thankfully, but they satisfy the other three senses beautifully.
It's interesting that touch screens lack that sense of feel--except those that use Immersion's VibeTonz technology, which makes touch screens "feel" like they've been pressed when buttons are activated.