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Basic UI Layouts in Series 40 Full Touch (Featured Video)

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At the first Series 40 UI clinic, held on 29 January 2013, Jan Krebber answered developers’ questions about UI design and UX on full-touch Series 40 phones. To start the session, however, Jan provided a presentation based around questions he had been asked about full-touch UI layouts in Series 40.

In this presentation Jan covers three main topics: first impressions, forms, and the UX resources offering on Nokia Developer.

You can download the slides from this session at: https://www.slideshare.net/nokia-developer/basic-ui-layouts-in-series-40-full-touch

Find out more about developing for Series 40 at:http://www.developer.nokia.com/Series40

Check out the current webinar schedule here:http://www.developer.nokia.com/webinars

3D printing industry rallies around Lumia 3DK

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3D printed Lumia 820 shellWell, it seems like just a few days ago that we released the Lumia 3DK, letting makers on the cutting edge experiment with our 3D models for the Nokia Lumia 820 back shell, and we couldn’t be more pleased with the result. The reaction has been fantastic, and we’re already seeing some interesting designs showing up on Thingiverse and IdeasProject.

To help those printing at home, the nice folks at Makerbot optimized the model for their Replicator 2 and posted it on Thingiverse, along with some great pictures of the printing process.

We’ve also gotten great responses from 3D printing services i.materialize, Sculpteo, and Shapeways. The latest blog from i.materialise shows us a nice range of designs to get the creative juices flowing, and shows off materials you might not have imagined for a phone case. Velvet, anybody?

Finally, the IdeasProject team has started the 3D Printing Challenge. Share your ideas for Nokia Lumia cases for a chance to win a trip to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona!

It’s been a lot of fun watching all the makers at work. Be sure to check out our wiki, contribute to it where you can, and keep those ideas coming!

Come and meet Andy Tjin from the Nokia HERE team at FINHTML5

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FINHTML5 lights up January with an event experience shaping the future of digital services. Some of the brightest tech leaders, visionaries, designers and hard core hackers will share their experience and vision for creating services for the multiscreen era on January 24th!

Andy Tjin, Head of Mobile HTML5 works in the Location & Commerce business at Nokia. This business unit aims to build and monetize unique location experiences for great mobile products, as well as the navigation industry, the automotive market and government and business solutions under the name HERE.

Andy will discuss the real life challenges, trade-offs and victories in creating a large scale, state-of-the-art mapping service for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and Firefox OS devices.

Below are some quick specs for the event:

  • A great mix of tech leaders, visionaries, designers and hard core hackers in the speaker lineup
  • People who’ve really made it big time in the HTML5 space, including Andrew Betts from Financial Times, FT-Labs and Brian LeRoux, the father of Phonegap.

Focus

  • Creating fabulous services for the multiscreen era
  • How HTML5  is one of the main building blocks for building experiences today and tomorrow
  • What HTML5 actually is and isn’t
  • How are we stepping away from platform silos towards having your services available everywhere at all times

For more details, please check out the event page http://finhtml5.fi/

New webinars to improve your Series 40 full touch apps

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The Nokia Developer series of webinars continues with three presentations that will help you create great apps for Nokia Series 40 full touch phones.

These webinars are free to attend and open to all developers anywhere in the world. Here’s what is coming:

 

UX checklist for Series 40 full-touch apps

Are you looking to do a quick user experience (UX) check of your Series 40 full-touch app? This webinar will provide pointers you can use, even if you have no formal experience in UX design. UX expert Jan Krebber of Digia will present a list of the worst UX mistakes he and his colleagues have found in their real-world tests. Jan will not only point out mistakes you may be making, but also provide specific solutions to those problems. Also, this presentation will feature exercises and a follow-up treatment in a Nokia Developer Wiki article. For your convenience, this webinar will be presented twice:

 

UI design for monetisation enablers for Series 40 full touch

How you design and present monetisation interactions requires as much attention to user experience as does the rest of your app. If you use in-app ads or in-app purchasing, this UX webinar is for you.

In this webinar, you will be walked through the recommended flows of various monetisation stories in Series 40 full touch. You will also learn about common mistakes that developers make — and solutions to those problems. This presentation will also feature exercises, and they will receive follow-up treatment in a Nokia Developer Wiki article. For your convenience, this webinar will be presented twice:

 

Debug your design for Series 40 full touch

You know how important it is to test your app before publishing. But if you test only the code, you are missing half the story: You also need to find bugs in your design. If not, consumers may still find your app frustrating and give it low ratings in Nokia Store.

Join UX expert Jan Krebber of Digia as he presents simple methods to find UX bugs and then correct them. Jan’s techniques can help you increase your app quality, whether you work for a large organization or on your own. This presentation will also feature exercises, and they will receive follow-up treatment in a Nokia Developer Wiki article. For your convenience, this webinar will be presented twice:

 

Image Technology Challenge at IdeasProject.com

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If you’re a photography buff, you’ll want to check out the latest challenge over at Ideas Project. Ideas Project helps bring consumers and developers together to make connections, start conversation, and get creative together. Our latest challenge is designed to further enrich mobile photography by creating and sharing ideas to make the next killer photo app or service.

To get the specifics on our Image Technology Challenge, visit the project page here.

About Ideas Project

At SXSW 2011, we launched ideasproject.com, an experimental project to co-create technologies with consumers. Over the past year, we’ve started to see the power of co-creation and the benefits it brings. By bringing greater focus to the consumer to developer connection, we are seeing great results. Our success stories include:

To learn more about Ideas Project, visit www.ideasproject.com.

Two webinars this month for Series 40 developers

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Are you developing apps for Nokia Series 40 phones? Then you will want to attend two Nokia Developer webinars this month:

Adapting Series 40 Touch and Type apps to full-touch UI

In this webinar, you will learn key development skills for adapting your Series 40 Touch and Type Java™ applications to take full advantage of the new Nokia Asha Touch phones. Java expert Michael Samarin from Futurice will show you how to use the new APIs and adapt your apps’ screen dimensions and input methods. During live coding demonstrations, Michael will use the NetBeans IDE and simultaneous installations of the new Nokia SDK 2.0 for Java™ and the earlier Nokia SDK 1.1 for Java™. Michael will also demonstrate how to build Java apps with multiple configurations for various product groups. So you can target the newest Nokia Asha Touch phones, as well as the large installed base of Touch and Type phones.

Session 1: 15 August; 7 a.m. UTC (8 a.m. London, 12:30 p.m. New Delhi, 3 p.m. Singapore). Register now.

Session 2: 16 August; 3 p.m. UTC (8 a.m. San Francisco, 10 a.m. Mexico City, 4 p.m. London). Register now.

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User-centric design of Series 40 apps

Success in Nokia Store is dominated by apps with four- or five-star user ratings. Big companies know this and hire full-time UX specialists to ensure high ratings. But if you can’t afford a dedicated UX specialist, this webinar is for you. UX expert Jan Krebber from Digia will walk you through a simple process of focusing on UX-design principles that are critical for the growing market for Nokia Asha Touch apps. The ideas are easy to follow, and after the webinar, you should be able to apply user-centric design to your own application projects.

The webinar will point out the benefits of a superior user experience, apply the design process to a sample application, and give you a chance to try things yourself in an exercise. After the presentation, possible solutions for the exercise will be published in an article on the Nokia Developer Wiki.

Session 1: 22 August; 7. a.m. UTC (8 a.m. London, 12:30 p.m. New Delhi, 3 p.m. Singapore). Register now.

Session 2: 23 August; 3 p.m. UTC (8 a.m. San Francisco, 10 a.m. Mexico City, 4 p.m. London). Register now.