UI aimed at fingers and gestures turn our design conventions. Touchscreen interfaces are more ergonomic, contextual, and even emotional than familiar desktop UIs. Find out why our well known desktop windows, buttons, and widgets are weak replacements for manipulating content directly, and learn practical principles for designing such mobile interfaces.
Author: Alexey Martynenko
Co-owner and CEO, Aplica
Alexey Martynenko is a co-owner and CEO of Aplica: developers of mobile and web applications.
In the area of his expertise and interests is everything associated with software development: project management, UI design, technologies, methodologies and programming languages, as well as management of internet or software businesses.
He has long experience in web and enterprise application development. For over a year he is interested in and leading the development of mobile applications for the iPhone, iPad and Android platforms.
He is a certified Microsoft Solution Developer.
He graduated in 2003 from the University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Science in Applied Mathematics, with honors.
In off hours he enjoys playing drums, guitar, water polo, street racing and traveling.