When it comes to delivering product design innovations to mobile device users, Nokia is the company against which all others are judged. Now, the philosophies and working methods by which Nokia revolutionized product usability are explained for the first time in Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone.

Written with great insight by Nokia experts, this book offers clear and practical guidance on how to provide maximum usability to end-users, including first-hand coverage of:

• The elements of a Nokia user interface
• The Nokia design philosophy, from concept creation to product testing
• Mobile distinctions
• The future of small interfaces
• User interface styles
• Six mobile messages
• Usability engineering in practice in the mobile environment
• And much, much more!

Plus, the book features a wealth of vivid illustrations, all constructed to help you incorporate new ideas and concepts into your work. With Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone, you can deliver to your users the wide range of benefits mobile technology has for so long been promising.

Contents

• Dominant design in mobile user interfaces
  • User Interface Styles
  • Takeout Menus: Elements of Nokia's Mobile User Interface
  • The Navi-Key Story

• Living with mobiles
  • Indian Needs -- Cultural End-User Research in Mombai
  • Usability Meets Sociology for Richer Consumer Studies

• Design and research intertwined
  • Managing the Design of User Interfaces
  • The One-Row Keyboard -- a Case Study in Mobile Text Input
  • Series 60 Mailbox in Rome -- A Case Study of a Paper Prototyping Tour
  • 1/4 Samara -- Hardware Prototyping a Driving Simulator Environment
  • Dawn on the Wireless Multimedia Highway
  • Just-in-Time Usability Engineering

• Mobile contradictions
  • The Expressive Interface
  • Six Mobile Messages

• Telecommunications glossary
• Index