From the course: Captivate 8: Mobile and Responsive Design

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts.

Choosing mobile-friendly project dimensions and controls

Choosing mobile-friendly project dimensions and controls - Captivate Tutorial

From the course: Captivate 8: Mobile and Responsive Design

Choosing mobile-friendly project dimensions and controls

When designing projects for mobile devices, you know right off the bat that you're dealing with limited screen size, so being, you need to carefully consider the dimensions you give your project, as well as the controls you offer your users. So let's talk about figuring out your project dimensions, and then, if you're going to include what's known in Captivate as the skin elements. We're going to talk about this in the context of non-responsive projects, mostly, although much of it will apply to responsive projects, too, so here on the start page of Captivate, I'm going to create a blank, nonresponsive project, and right away, Captivate wants to know what size should this project be? Well, you can type in your own custom dimensions, if you know them, or choose from one of the presets. A lot of people, when they're targeting mobile, are targeting iPad, and Adobe knows that, so you can see that they've got these two preset sizes here, so if you don't know what dimensions your projects…

Contents