The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences

by Rachel Hinman

Mobile user experience is a new frontier. Untethered from a keyboard and mouse, this rich design space is ripe with opportunities to invent new and more human ways for people to interact with information. The Mobile Frontier will help you navigate this unfamiliar and fast-changing landscape, and inspire you to explore the possibilities that mobile technology presents.

Genres: Design, Website Design, Technology

280 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

Rachel Hinman is a researcher, designer and a recognized thought leader in the mobile user experience field. Her passions for cultural study, art, and design coupled with the belief that people can use technology to improve the human condition have been the driving forces in her career.

Currently, Rachel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, California. There she focuses on the research and design of emergent and experimental mobile interfaces and mobile experiences for emerging markets. Prior to joining Nokia, Rachel was an experience design director at Adaptive Path, and a mobile researcher and strategist for Yahoo's mobile group. Rachel's innate sensitivity to people and culture have proven powerful skills in the field, enabling her to successfully lead research studies on mobile phone usage in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Rachel writes and speaks frequently on the topic of mobile research and design. She is the creative force behind the 90 Mobiles in 90 Days Project and her perspectives on mobile user experience has been featured in Interactions Magazine, BusinessWeek and Wired. She is currently writing a book entitled The Mobile Frontier: A Guide to Creating Mobile User Experience with Rosenfeld Media. Expected publication is late 2011.

Rachel received a Masters Degree in Design Planning from the Institute of Design in Chicago.

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Reviews

[Mark Congiusta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overview of mobile UX theory, practice, and process but on the cusp of obsolescence.

[Alexander Debkaliuk · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book doesn't look as far into the future as I expected, yet provides many building blocks and tools for creating a better mobile user experience for a number of years to come.

[Yujia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice introductory book to Mobile Design.

[Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book focused on the future of mobile experience design. This one is aimed at UX designers but is accessible to anyone in the web industry, including business types, managers and developers.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great intro into designing for mobile, or, really, designing any site

[Ninakix · Rating 2 out of 5]

At times I agreed with the author, but eventually just put the book down cuz I felt she had drunk just a wee bit too much of the mobile kool-aid.

[Barkan Saeed · Rating 3 out of 5]

its an ok book.. mostly filled with useless stuff. The book could have been much smaller if the useless stuff was not there..