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Me and dain will be giving a presentation on wednesday for Mobile design uk.

Generation UX

A light hearted look over the short history of mobile UI and UX, and were it might go in the future. This short talk will specifically look at the progression of mobile UI, personalization and overall user experience over the last decade or so, and how we as mobile designers can push the boundaries to create fresh, intuitive interfaces and user experiences.

Looking forward to meeting some more of the every growing mobile community in London, and thanks to Bryan for inviting us.

Venue :

Seren Partners Limited
55-57 Rivington Street, London
Wednesday April 22rd, doors open 6:30pm

via Mark,

Mark Doherty from adobe has released a set of components on his blog which have been design by Matt snow & team at Adobe mobile UI design.

What will you get from them:

* Discover how to create low memory yet rich components
* List, Slider, Tile, NavModel and Gapper components for Flash Lite 2.x/3.x
* Carousel, Menu, Story and scroll bars in Flash Lite 1.1
* Key Handling for Flash Lite 1.1 and Flash Lite 2.x/3.x
* Image Handling, loading and unloading etc (TileMenu)
* Creating device UI and multi-screen applications (NavModel)

I have used some of these in one of my recent projects (streamMobile) and they are a great way to implement some great looking navigation very quickly. The are also reasonably easy to customize graphically and also in implementation.

You can get them from here . enjoy!

Matt

I have just put a flv demo online for one of the new FL applications i have been working on.

It is in effect a mobile “channel” for a company called Stream that provide On Demand video via set-top boxes & a broadband connection in your home.

The mobile client allows you to log in and view Stream’s content on the move.

It is a completely dynamic menu system, updated via the server, which allows new content to be added on the fly.

The video is handled via Flash media server, and streamed directly to the handset.

The Demo application is connected to the internet by a o2 3G connection in this video.

view the demo here, (apologies for lack of sound)

DEMO LINK

check out stream’s online service @ streamOnline.co.uk
matt

the guys from break design have released a demo of their new flashlite app, Johnie Walker | Digital PA. This looks amazing and really shows the level of branded content flashlite is capable of producing.

watch it here.

been working a new app for a client in Europe for the last few weeks, and have been developing a secure mobile money transfer app front end (flashlite 2.0).
The client has given me permission to show it off a bit, so i have also posted this video demo of the app in action on a nokia n80 to get a bit of feedback.

After launching the app from the mobile app menu, (sis made with swf2go), the user enters security details connects to the mobile web, then logs into his/her account. Once logged in, the user is able to :

Really interesting to work on a more serious mobile application and it (i think )works really well in your hand. All navigation is done via joypad and soft keys, and it is a version of a tabbed menu system.

Take a look, any comments would be appreciated

Matt

I made a quick bitmap version to see the difference in performance. Changed the main oval to a PNG and also the reflection, which was then alpha’d to about 10%.

Came to 2 major conclusions:

Fps and performance === Much better (on the N91)

Graphical clarity === not so good…..

Because the size changes as it drops to the background, it goes all ‘pixely’. This would not be a problem if the icon did not rescale however, and the icon just moved off to the side…..

let me know how it runs if you try it on your device.

get the swf here

FL 1.1 display 176×208

matt

Fl1.1 / 176×208 display
Was messing around with this today, tried to recreate the look of the osx media player menu.
Interesting to see how the use off lots of gradients and the alpha reflections effects the fps play back on the devices.
Quickly knocked this together in FL 1.1.

feel free to have a go and if you don’t mind, let me know how the movement performs on different handsets. I tried it on a N91 and it was quite slow.

controls – left & right = nudge left & right

download the swf here

Matt.