O'Reilly's Mobile Design & Development by Brian Fling

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About the Author

Brian Fling is an authority in the field of in mobile user experience and designing for multiple contexts. He has worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-ups to Fortune 50 companies to leverage a variety of mediums, like mobile devices, to design for the needs and context of real people.

Author of O'Reilly Media's Mobile Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques for creating mobile sites and web apps, Brian goes in depth into the design principles involved in creating compelling mobile experiences for this new era of multiple devices and context. As well as explore the rapidly growing area of how to easily design and build a mobile site and web app, how to deal with devices practically and how to translate an experience to a variety of mobile devices.

Brian is a frequent author and speaker on the issues on mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience, teaching people how to leverage mobile all over the world. Brian is the Founder and Executive Creative Director of pinch/zoom, a design and development agency specializing on mobile experiences helping clients like BBC, Best Buy, eHarmony, Lonely Planet, PayPal and others dive into the world of mobile.

Follow or get in touch with Brian at any of these places:

  • pinch/zoom—The mobile design agency I founded in 2008. We made some pretty kick-ass native and web apps for The New York Times, BBC, ADP, eHarmony, HSBC, Philadelphia Inquirer, PayPal, Jive, MailChimp, Delta and many others. Contact us for how we can do it for you.
  • pinch/zoom blog—The pinch/zoom blog where we discuss the craft of mobile design.
  • The Context—Our weekly show where we discuss mobile and the craft of kick-ass experiences
  • flinglog—My personal blog where I talk about mobile, parenting, video games and movies I like.
  • Twitter (@fling)—Follow me on Twitter, this is usually the best way to keep up to date with the latest announcements and mobile tools. You should also follow @pinchzoom too.
  • LinkedIn—Connect with me on LinkedIn so we can share each others professional details.
  • SlideShare—You can find all my presentations and workshops on SlideShare. A lot of these talks formed the foundation of this book.
  • Lanyrd—Conferences I will be speaking at or attending in the future.
  • Facebook—If we know each other, lets connect on Facebook.

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