Full day training course

Visual Design for Mobile and Tablet: Day 2

Advance into more challenging design solutions for mobile

Mobile experiences can be greatly improved with an attractive and compelling visual design. Take a deeper dive into the visual details of creating both beautiful and usable mobile interfaces for your users.

Please note: This seminar focuses on visual and interaction design, not on development or programming.

Topics covered

  • Log in & register flow
  • Launch screens
  • Educational walkthroughs and instructions
  • Navigation patterns
  • Contextual navigation and footers
  • Popovers and modals
  • Notification and alert design
  • Search
  • Empty data sets and 404 pages
  • Filtering content
  • Displaying and managing lots of data
  • Maps
  • Design details: Thoughtful implementations and overlooked blunders
  • Advertising on mobile

Format

The basis of the course is a lecture format with a couple of group exercises to reinforce the learned principles and guidelines.

The course also includes:

  • Screenshots of designs that work and don’t work, and why
  • Opportunities to ask questions and get answers

Companion Course

Visual Design for Mobile and Tablet: Day 1 is a companion course to Visual Design for Mobile and Tablet: Day 2. Each course can be taken independently. Visual Design for Mobile and Tablet: Day 1 covers:

  • Balance aesthetics with functionality to create an elegant and functional design
  • Visual design components for mobile design and applying them to your situations
  • Identifying visually-awkward design decisions and how to fix them

Instructor

Kara McCain

For more than 13 years, Kara McCain has been creating innovative brand and user experiences in the search, social media, luxury, hotel, travel, telecommunications, jewelry, professional sports, e-commerce, government and food service industries. Her expertise has allowed her to develop and implement highly successful Web and print design strategies for top Fortune 500 companies. Read more about Kara