Programme 2009-2010

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Week 1: Introduction

Mobile design principles

Examples of previous projects

Example of websites (BBC, Google, CNN)

Presentation of different tools (Macromedia / Carbide for Symbian S60/ Netbeans / MySQL / Adobe Device Central / Mobility tool kit)

Installing Carbide inside your virtual machine

Using the Symbian Emulator

Portfolio task: Create index page and link to 250 word report on SAMP server

Week 2: Design week

Catch-up/refresh

Design tutorial - Photoshop and Carbide for Symbian Phone S60

Design for small screen / limited input

Key social concepts in mobility

M-learning and innovative applications

AMICITIAS Project Demonstration (J2ME)

Portfolio task: Mobile phone theme (including logo design)

Week 3: Static mobile websites

CSS Tutorial - for reference only (for people who have never designed a website)

XHTML tutorial - for reference only (for people who have never designed a website)

Working with tables

CSS3

Portfolio task: Tidy up your portfolio site

Week 4: Flashlite

Using Flash for Mobile phones

Tutorial Flash object / animation

Tutorial ActionScript

Flash Game

Portfolio task: Complete exercise and upload to SAMP server / link to portfolio

Week 5: Mobility tool kit

Introduction to mobility toolkit

Basic introduction to J2ME

Tutorial using Phone API

Portfolio task: Complete exercise and upload file to SAMP

Week 6: Dynamic mobile websites

Designing database for Mobile applications

XHTML tutorial 2

PHP tutorial (display text, working with variables, working with Databases)

ASP.NET websites (optional)

Examine ASP.NET capacity within SCIM

Windows mobile development (ASP.NET + SQL 2005 for mobile)

Portfolio task: complete task and link your m-portfolio to it

Week 7: J2ME

Introduction to J2ME

J2ME Tutorial

Using Phone API through J2ME

Portfolio task: complete workshop and upload ZIP file

Week 8: J2ME

Building a Game with J2ME: Game tutorial

AMICITIAS workshop (optional)

Portfolio task: complete workshop and upload ZIP file

Week 9: Usability design and user-research

Usability for mobile design

Focus Groups

Interpreting data

Improving applications based on user-focussed design

Final Portfolio task: Submit project specification

Week 10: Projects assistance

Projects assistance workshops

Week 11: ADVANCED TOPICS

Google map programming

GPS programming

CMS (e.g. Joomla) for mobile phones

Other (e.g. iPhone)

Return from CHRISTMAS BREAK

Submit final project

Present project and usability report