Category: Design and User Experience
Putting the user at the heart of your app designs is the key to creating winning apps. Our upcoming webinar walks you through a design example focusing on helping a user determine where they are, to facilitate the use of a location based application for Series 40 Touch and Type phones....
Creating a prototype of your new app is a vital part of the development process, and we recently created two new videos to help you avoid common prototyping mistakes.
The first video shows you the basics of creating a simple prototype, outlining some easy methods for drawing your...
If you have a great idea for an app that plays with images in fun and useful ways, there's a hackathon coming up that is built for you. Our good friends at Aviary are hosting the Photo Hack Day 2 in New York City 25-26 February, and we’re excited to be the headline sponsor. Aviary...
Your creative use of Qt Quick components could win a nice new smartphone, get your app promoted, and have your skills noticed by the community. We are looking for the best examples of Qt Quick components for Symbian Belle with our new Qt Quick components competition .
Qt Quick...
The winners have been announced for Nokia’s App Launcher Icon Competition. To enter, developers had to create a new, original app launcher icon for Series 40, Symbian, or Nokia N9 (MeeGo) platforms using Nokia templates, then submit the icons by 30 November. A total of 196 icons were...
Enter Nokia’s new competition to celebrate the launch of its new icon style and templates, and you could be among the winners of new Nokia N9 phones and promotions on the greater Nokia Developer community.
To be eligible for the contest ...
- Your app-launcher icon...
You may have noticed the look of some of the Nokia application icons have been changing. The corners have become a little more rounded, and the styling a bit more simple. That's because Nokia Developer has updated the icon guidelines for Series 40 Touch and Type, Symbian and MeeGo 1.2...
We would like to hear your thoughts about application development for in-car use and how the Car Connectivity Consortium and Terminal Mode specification meet your needs. The feedback received will be used to further develop the Terminal Mode specification, related business models,...
Join Nokia and the conversation at MIX, 12-14 April, in Las Vegas . At MIX you will learn how to get started developing apps for Windows Phone, see the latest tools and technologies and draw inspiration from a professional community of your peers and experts.
Come, join us at MIX...
There is a new version of the Forum Nokia Design and User Experience Library, which gathers essential design and usability aspects in one place. This version contains updated and new information about Nokia design principles, Symbian iconography guidelines, and simplified layouts and...
Case studies have just been posted on 10 mobile developers who received user experience (UX) consultations from Forum Nokia. The 10 include developers of apps currently available on Ovi Store – such as Car Black Box, Wikitude World Browser, Loan Calc, and Vringo – as well as some...
Forum Nokia’s Remote Device Access (RDA) service, which lets developers anywhere in the world test their apps on live devices via the web, has been expanded to include the Perfecto Mobile Handsets Cloud . This new service provides a secure environment for testing. It also offers robust...
MeeGo, the Linux-based platform born from a combination of Nokia and Intel projects, has just been released in version 1.1 . The new version is not for consumers, but for developers and device vendors wishing to create software for MeeGo-based devices. Upgraded components include the core OS,...
Mobile developers can now have their apps evaluated by Forum Nokia user experience (UX) experts and partners, who use mobile usability heuristics and Nokia’s own UX Evaluation Model. For a reasonable fee, developers can receive a written evaluation that clearly identifies and illustrates...
Forum Nokia's User Experience Program expands to include thousands of test users around the world
As a developer, you can test the functionality of your new application all day long, but there's nothing like a fresh pair of eyes to really shed light on what really works and what...