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Advertising in Mobile Devices
This article provides guidelines for effective, user-friendly mobile advertising. The guidelines are divided into three subcategories: General, Placement, Content and Context, and Taking care of the user.

Mobile Design Showcases
This document highlights some
examples of good mobile design, evaluating them on the basis of interactivity, easy-of-use, and visual look.

The Value of Good Design
This article gives an explanation to what is good design and why it should be pursued in the first place. The article discusses the very core of design and the value that good design can bring to the end product. The article also takes a look into design today and tomorrow.

Getting Started with Mobile Design
This document provides an overview to different aspects of mobile designing, such as the mobile context, tools, and standards. The challenges of mobile design are discussed with guidance of how to overcome them.

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 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 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.



