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)
Objectives
Understand the concepts of designing for mobile devices.
Practical experiences designing for mobile devices
Tasks
Configure your Microsoft Virtual PC environment. When setting up your virtual PC environment use the default directory provided.
Portfolio task: Mobile phone theme (including logo design)
Design and submit your mobile phone theme (choose a phone of your choice)
Design a logo for your mobile music store. The logo should have your initial (example JPD MusiXpress). The logo should include some of the features addressed in the tutorials.
Resources
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Mobile Application Usability
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Mobile Learning Language |
Mobile Application Usability
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Photoshop Toolbox |
Photoshop layers |
Transparent background |
Uptimising pictures |
Logo Design |
Slide Lab |
Audio |
some of the tutorials on Photoshop have been adapted from Media College.
Carbide support document
Advanced topic
Creating Firefox Logo |
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