To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give your idea a certain shape, keeping it abstract and not losing yourself in details.

SmashingMagazine prepared an overview of useful web and mobile user interface kits, handy PDFs and resources that we can use in our projects. They’ve carefully selected the most useful kits and resources to get you going in the early stages of a project. Enjoy!

(vai Vivek) – Nice presentation “a selection of thoughts on the 2010 mobile landscape from yiibu.” Enjoy.

(via Scott) – Paul Trani posted a presentation about creating Flash Content for Mobile Devices. Enjoy:

Youtube mobile website got a major update today including a faster and more finger-friendly user interface. Youtube also announced that YouTube Mobile now receives more than 100 million video playbacks a day, a good reason for a big update. Watch the presentation video below:

UX Lx is a premier User Experience Conference and this year was a jam–packed three day event in Lisbon.

UX Lx is a premier User Experience Conference, and our speaker lineup is really the cream of the crop in the industry worldwide. They’re Usability Experts, Information Architects and Interaction Designers, all of them bestselling authors in their fields. You’ll not only be inspired by their 12 thought provoking talks but you’ll have the opportunity to learn 1 on 1 in their 16 practical workshops.

Many design & UX leaders took part to the event with interesting speeches. One of them was Brian Fling with an inspiring presentation about Designing Mobile Experiences. Below you can find slides from slideshare.com, enjoy:

(Via Nokia Conversation) – Nokia just announced 2 new entertainment-oriented devices at Nokia Connection in Singapore: the Nokia X5-01 and the Nokia X6 8GB.

The most interesting is the Nokia X5 which plugs part of the gap between the Nokia X3 and Nokia X6, but as you can see from the video above, is a pretty unique device. The Nokia X5 features excellent sound quality, dedicated music keys and loud speakers, and will include access to Ovi Music, and to Comes with Music in some regions.

Today, Nokia released the version 1.0 Release Candidate of its unified Qt SDK. This new version also includes the Release Candidate of Qt Creator 2.0.

Aside from bug fixing and various improvements, the biggest news in this announcement is that apps for N900 built with this SDK can be finally published to the Ovi Store.

Would this be the rebirth of a powerful, tweakable, but underestimated device?

For the full change log, you can check out the Qt Labs Blog.

Apple has unveiled its new iPhone 4 at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco. Below some of the most important features and innovations.

• Design: The all new iPhone 4 is just 9.3mm thick and is 24 percent thinner than the iPhone 3GS.
• Display: With the new iPhone 4, Apple debuts new display dubbed as ‘Retina Display’. This 3.5-inch multi-touch display offers 960×640 pixel resolution at 326 pixels per inch.
• Processor: Apple A4 System-on-Chip processor used in iPad.
• Camera: 5 megapixel sensor with backside illuminated sensor and LED Flash.
• Gyroscope: 6-axis motion sensing.
• Battery life: increased by 40%.

Other features: Quadband HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi (802.11n), Assisted GPS, Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, iBooks App as free download, Microsoft’s search engine Bing officially added to search engine options, Micro SIM just like the ones used in iPad.

The phone will be available in white or black, retailing at $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for 32GB. They go on sale June 24th. Read more of the Apple iPhone 4 here.

Presented yesterday at Intel’s Computex, here’s a first preview of a MeeGo-powered tablet that starts to show which are the capabilities and UI elements of this OS.

The demo showcases two different parts of the User Interface: a standard menu with app icons and, the cool one, a totally customizable sliding menu, with vertical slices independently scrollable. Down to the technical stuff, the tablet will feature a 1.5GHz Moorestown chip and a 10′ display, but the expected release date is no sooner than the first part of 2011. A long sweet wait!

More details are available on Engadget website.

(via MobileCrunch) – Motorola just announced the square-shaped Flipout: Android 2.1 device including a refreshed implementation of Motoblur, which now includes resizable widgets, feed filters, and push corporate email.

The phone will be released in Europe some time this quarter. You can read the full press release and spec sheet here, or check out some videos from Motorola’s YouTube channel.