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User Experience
Learn how to improve your application’s usability. User experience emphasizes the emotional aspects of interacting with a product, such as the product's desirability, usage flow, and impressiveness.

S60 Platform: Development and Quality Assurance Process Guideline
Read this updated document to get an overview of the S60 application development process from pre-study to maintenance phase and to see how quality aspects can be integrated into the different phases of the development process. The information provided in the document can be used as a basis for creating a process or to complement and fine-tune an existing process. Most of the content in this document is considered generic and applicable to other than S60 applications as well.

Designing for the Big Screen: Developing Applications for the Nokia E90 Communicator
This article discusses designing high-quality applications for the Nokia E90 Communicator and gives tips and tricks on designing for a large display. The article describes how to achieve a good balance in terms of both the visual layout of the UI elements and the amount of information presented on the screen, still fully utilizing the big screen.

Series 40 UI Style Guide
Get an overview of the Series 40 user interface and learn its essential parts. This document is targeted for anybody who needs a general overview of UI design principles for designing well-integrated, consistent, and usable Series 40 mobile services and applications.

S60 Scalable UI Guidelines eLearning
This module begins with an introduction the S60 Scalable UI, looking at the benefits it can bring to the developer. The module then moves on to look at some of the issues involved with developing a scalable application, from the design phase through the implementation and testing phases.

S60 UI & Usability eLearning
This module covers the basic UI principles for mobile device development before moving on to introduce the basic features of S60 and how they promote good usability.

S60 Platform: How to Prototype Applications with Flash
Learn how to develop UI prototypes for S60 mobile devices with Adobe Flash Lite. Although the focus is on the S60 platform, most of the techniques in this document are applicable to other mobile platforms, too.

Mobile Browsing: Evaluating and Improving an Existing Site
This article continues the series on the Full Nokia Web Browser, and takes a look at several case examples of Web design that are not mobile-friendly. The problems illustrated are critical issues for mobile users; and this article attempts to help Web managers with existing sites identify changes that can be made to improve the user experience for those using a mobile device.

S60 3rd Edition FP2: UI Style Guide
Read this document to get an overview of the S60 user interface in S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 and to familiarize yourself with its essential parts. The document can be used as an introduction to the style or as reference material but it also provides background material to help user interface designers make decisions about their products.

S60 UI Style Guide v1.3
Read this document to get an overview of the S60 user interface and to familiarize yourself with its essential parts. The updated document describes the new features introduced in S60 3rd Edition and S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1, but it is also valid for earlier S60 platform releases. The document can be used as an introduction to the style or as reference material but it also provides background material to help user interface designers make decisions about their products.




