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Designing for Small Screens

Studio 7.5


Designing for Small Screens provides a guide for professional designers and students to developing functional concepts and good design for the small screen.

The design of interactive applications or presentations on small screens is becoming an increasingly pertinent field, given the advancement of technology in mobile phones, palm-top computers and other small-screen devices. However, design of this nature can be challenging for the designer. Not all design concepts that are valid on larger screens can be implemented on the small screen. Devices in this category differ in size and type of their display, in the nature of their physical interaction and in their performance.

Designing for Small Screens, therefore, equips the student or practitioner with the appropriate tools with which to develop functional concepts and realise good designs for small screens.

Key features

  • Shows professional designers and students how to develop functional concepts and good design for the small screen.
  • Pertinent subject given advancing technology in mobile phones, palm- top computers and other small-screen devices.

Readership: Advanced

  • Students and graduates of design.
  • Practising designers and anyone teaching design.
  • Professionals involved in the management of design.

Professor Carola Zwick studied at the University of Arts Berlin where she gained an MA in Industrial Design. In 1993 she joined the teaching body at the University of Arts Berlin as an Assistant Professor and, together with Burkhard Schmitz, she initiated the media group ID 5 within the design course. Carola Zwick has been teaching interface design at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal since 1998.

Professor Burkhard Schmitz studied at the University of Arts in Berlin where he too gained an MA in Industrial Design. In 1989 he became Professor for Media Design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch-Gmünd, In 1993 he returned once more to the University of Arts Berlin, where he has taught Interactive Systems since.

Dipl. Designer Kerstin Kühl studied at the University of Applied Sciences Dessau where she gained a diploma in Graphic Design.

978 2 940373 07 9

$29.95 srp

176 pages
100 colour images
230mm x 200mm
Paperback with flaps

Autumn 2005

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