Cutting Edge Mobile Design

The mobile web is officially open to the masses, as evidenced by all the mobile sessions at this year’s South by Southwest ~~Party~~ Conference. Plain old-fashioned WAP design is out. It’s time to step up the game on creating striking, captivating, eye-catching mobile design.

Need inspiration? Here are some mobile design showcases to get you going. These links they are all desktop sites with rich graphics, so if you’re reading this on your mobile phone, consider yourself warned about huge graphic download sizes if you don’t have an unlimited data plan:

Mobile Design Showcase Sites That Rock

MobileAwesomeness.com The name says it all, doesn’t it?
SmashingMagazine.com’s mobile design trends. Stay on SmashingMagazine.com for awhile, because it has all kinds of free downloads for icons, fonts, graphics, textures, tutorials, and Wordpress themes. It’s a designer’s dream site.
Mashable.com’s mobile web design post

If you’d rather have a how-to manual, Nokia has produced a comprehensive mobile visual design guide for newcomers on their forum, Forum.Nokia.com. They also have mobile web templates and code that you are welcome to use at will, provided you follow the very generous terms of their license agreement.

Go develop, and tell us what you made.

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social networking design March 17, 2010 at 12:04 pm: Now a days the mobile webs have very high opportunity as 3G is available to browse faster.
Holly Kolman March 17, 2010 at 12:12 pm: Hi Fuchsia, welcome to mobiEnthusiast.mobi. I agree, the 3g speeds are allowing designers to make more creative sites for smartphones.