Gone are the days when designing a site entailed starting from scratch with html and css. Now we have tools that take away the grunt work out of designing boilerplate code and other miscellaneous work, and lets you focus on what really matters, the end product. Below are a few good tools that will help you in designing and prototyping web and mobile products, whether working as a team or as a lone ranger.
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mobile design
Using a mobile accelerometer to enhance web app UI
A accelerometer is one of the important sensors in mobiles. This sensor along with a gyroscope is essentially used by most mobiles games to detect motion in 3 dimensions whenever a mobile is moved or shaken. Although common with mobiles applications, web applications seldom use the features provided by these sensors. With some ingenuity we can use these sensors to enhance the user experience of a web app on a mobile device without much effort.
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