These are my favorite resources relating to mobile design, both Responsive Web Design and App Design: examples of great user experiences, user interface design, as well as relevant source code.
Responsive Web Design
- 50 fantastic tools for responsive web design: The ultimate starting point
- Optimizing vs. Adapting for Devices: More details on adaption vs optimization (By LukeW, June 2012)
- Multi-Device Adaptation vs. Optimization: On the difference between two methods (By LukeW, June 2012)
- Multi-Device Layout Patterns: On fluid grids and media query adjustments (by LukeW, March 2012)
- Responsive Web Design: The “original” article by Ethan Marcotte
- Responsive Web Design: The Wikipedia article
- Lessons from mobile web design: The “other” way, i.e. mobile web sites
App Design
- Android Asset Studio: Create icons and other assets for your Android apps (April, 2013)
- Color Scheme Designer: Find matching colors, create complete color schemes (April, 2013)
- Fontfabric: Free fonts (April, 2013)
- Icons: Royalty free icons, etc (April, 2013)
- Android Niceties: Inspiration from great looking Android apps
- Beautiful Pixels: Blog on great design
- UIParade: User interface design inspiration
- Dribble: Show and tell for designers!
- iPhoneBlueprints: eBook on fundamentals of user interface design
- iOS Inspires Me: iPhone & iPad app icons, app interfaces, app websites & resources
- Mobile Design Patterns: Best practices from popular apps and how each app does common tasks (splash screens, lists, login, photos, sharing, notifications, etc)
- lovely ui: Mobile UI Elements
- App Sites: App Sites is a showcase of beautiful iPhone, iPad & Mac app websites.
- Landing Pad: Beautiful iPad app design
- pttrns: Best practices from popular apps and how each app does common tasks (splash screens, lists, login, photos, sharing, notifications, etc)
- iDev Recipes: Detailed design walkthroughs including source code
- Android Patterns: Android design patterns on wireframe level
- Josh Clark Presentation: A collection of presentations by App Guru Josh Clark
- Josh Clark on touch interface: A video recorded presentation
App Icons
- IICNS: Library collection of beautiful icons
- iOS Icon Gallery: iOS icons