With hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available today, your app has to capture users immediately. This book provides practical techniques to help you catch and keep their attention. You ll learn core principles for designing effective user interfaces, along with a set of common patterns for interaction design on all types of mobile devices.

Mobile design specialists Steven Hoober and Eric Berkman have collected and researched 76 best practices for everything from composing pages and displaying information to the use of screens, lights, and sensors. Each pattern includes a...