January 22, 2014 in Learn
Mobile App Design for iOS
Learn the basics of designing a mobile app, from initial idea, wireframes to user interface design. You will create the design for a diary app while learning how to write an application design specification, user experience, right through to creating…
January 2, 2014 in Learn
Animated GIFs for Documentation, Chrome DevTools for Mobile, Grunt | Treehouse Show Episode 71
The Treehouse Show is back! In episode 71 of The Treehouse Show, Nick and Jason (@jseifer) talk about animated GIFs in documentation, Chrome DevTools for mobile, Grunt, and much more.. This Week’s Links Creating Animated GIFs for Documentation – David…
December 23, 2013 in Learn
Building Multi-Touch Web Applications
With mobile web browsing now accounting for 15% of all global internet traffic building web applications targeted at mobile has become more important than ever. Building for mobile is very different to creating web applications targeted at the desktop environment….
November 13, 2013 in Learn
A Simple Guide to Mobile Landing Page Optimization
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ve seen the smartphone and tablet explosion happening around us. This isn’t set to slow anytime soon and designers are now finding themselves with more and more projects…
October 31, 2013 in Learn
Make Better Product Decisions
“Get out of the building and talk to customers” is wonderful advice because understanding your customers is perhaps the best way to improve your chances of making good product decisions. Knowing what makes people tick enhances your product intuition—your internalized…
October 8, 2013 in Learn
Popular Web Design Trends for Responsive Navigation
The process of creating a great responsive layout includes many factors. Fluid-width designs are similar, but not always built with mobile devices in mind. Any typical responsive web design is going to feature staple elements you’d expect to find in…
August 27, 2013 in Learn
How To Design Usable Profile Interfaces for iOS Mobile Applications
Mobile social networking apps commonly allow for a robust user profile section. This is where users can login to update their settings, post content, or check their followers/friends list. There are often many other features included with profiles depending on…
August 6, 2013 in Learn
Thinking Ahead: CSS Device Adaptation With @viewport
When we need to adjust a device’s browser viewport, the HTML <meta name=”viewport”> tag is usually our go-to solution. But the viewport meta tag is surprisingly “non-normative”––it’s not a formal W3C spec, much less a web standard. The viewport meta…
July 4, 2013 in Learn
Build a Mobile Web App Using jQuery Mobile and AJAX
Today we’re announcing a new upcoming workshop from Treehouse expert teacher, Amit Bijlani. In this workshop, you’ll learn to build a simple weather app called GOOD Weather using jQuery Mobile. Find out the strengths of jQuery Mobile and how to…
May 28, 2013 in Learn
Reflections, Mobile Typography and Responsive Images – Treehouse Show Ep 41
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about Reflections, Mobile Typography and Responsive Images. Here are the links for the week: BetterToggle jQuery Plugin http://jquer.in/betterToggle-jquery-plugin/ Creating Realistic Reflections On Animated Glossy Elements…
May 16, 2013 in Learn
Why Google Loves Developers
Google sent a love letter to developers yesterday by way of a three and a half hour keynote presentation at Google I/O 2013. Take a minute and watch this opening video from the keynote and tell me if you don’t…
February 20, 2013 in Learn
Create an Absolute Basic Mobile CSS Responsive Navigation Menu
In this tutorial we will go over the process in coding a very basic CSS responsive navigation menu. We will transform a basic non-list style navigation to a drop down menu using media queries in our stylesheet. There’s no need…