We’ve been working on the mobile apps for Lookit lately. With this being our first attempt at doing anything mobile, Tanner and I have both been learning A LOT.

An article on MobileTuts (ps: add this to your RSS reader if you’re working on mobile stuff) talks about a couple of the big differences between mobile design and development and “normal” web development:

• Space-saving UI elements
• Designing for multiple mobile experiences

Read the article here. Be sure to add their RSS feed to your reader. There  hasn’t been an article in the last three weeks I haven’t bookmarked.

“It’s finally here, a mobile app that texts you when you’re near a discount!”.

And now marketers can advertise straight into the most private part of your person: your pants.

Awesome. Who needs flying cars, anyways?

If you’re working on a mobile app, save yourself hours of frustration and start with these mobile layout templates for iPhone, Android, HTC Touch and WebOS. Obviously, they’ll help you stay in that OS’s style and create a more polished looking app.

In my experience, they also let you figure out when certain things (that made a heck of a lot of sense in your hand-sketches) won’t work at all.

[BONUS: Here's a vector-based iPhone toolkit for Adobe Fireworks from Metaspark. It's great if you're a Fireworks junkie.]