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A new report from Forrester Research details the best practices for designing mobile applications. "If you think mobile user experience design is about choosing the best development tools and designing for a smaller screen size, guess again," writes Mike Gualtieri in the report's introduction. What you really need to do in order to deliver an app users will love, he says, is create an experience that's useful, usable and desirable that also takes into account the five dimensions of the mobile context: location, locomotion, immediacy, intimacy and device.

But how is this actually done?

Upstage is a new mobile application for developers and designers which allows you to easily share iOS app mockups with other team members and external clients. The app has was originally developed as an internal collaboration tool by the folks over at Boxcar, the push notification provider for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch whose own mobile app is a perennial favorite here at ReadWriteWeb.

With Upstage, now in public beta, any mobile developer or designer working on iOS applications has access to this tool for free.

When it comes to launching blogs and Websites, small businesses often go with Wordpress, and for great reasons: it's customizable, widely-used and - best of all - free. In addition to the core product, there are tons of free plugins and themes available that make building out the ultimate site a cinch.

Sure, we all love free stuff. But just because there are hundreds of free options within reach doesn't mean you shouldn't be willing to spend a few dollars.

ThemeIt, a new app store devoted to iPhone customization, has just launched today. The store is only available to iPhone jailbreakers - those who use iPhone hacking tools to remove Apple's built-in restrictions that prevent the installation of third-party applications from outside of iTunes.

ThemeIt offers jailbreakers a selection of attractive themes which can be used within Winterboard, a popular jailbreak program for complete iPhone customization. For now, there are only paid themes available in ThemeIt, but a section devoted to free themes is arriving soon.

Meanwhile, Jay Freeman's Cydia application, the default jailbreak app store, has been updated to include a revamped theme section, too. For those of you into iPhone customization, today is a very good day.

According to a post from David Yach, CTO at Research in Motion (RIM), the company has acquired The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a notable design and development firm best known for its amazing Android interfaces, 3D graphics, Android live wallpapers and widgets and it's unfortunately discontinued but incredible augmented reality facial recognition application called Recognizr.

Now that TAT's team is moving to RIM, what will happen to all its Android-related work and the deals it already has in place?

Finding a good theme for a jailbroken iPhone has always been a challenge. Themes are either posted online in designers' and developers' forums, outside the reach of the "mainstream" jailbreaking audience, or they're arranged haphazardly in Cydia, the jailbreak app store. Neither is an ideal solution for users interested in customizing their device.

Now, things are about to change. A new jailbreak app store called "Theme It" is preparing to launch, billing itself as "the Theme Store you've been waiting for." When it launches in January (tentatively), it will be available as both a standalone mobile app like Cydia as well as a mobile-friendly website.

TAT, also known by its longer name "The Astonishing Tribe," is a mobile design and development firm best known among consumers for its forthcoming augmented reality application known as "Recognizr." The app (see previous coverage) is able to "see" a person's face though a smartphone's camera and then use facial recognition algorithms to identify them and serve up related information like recent status updates, Tweets and a LinkedIn bio, for example.

Unfortunately, we have some bad news about that ground-breaking app: it's been killed. However, we have other exciting news that may lessen the blow.

While the Web and the limitations of most browsers sometimes limit what designers can do online, one advantage of the Internet is that it allows them to easily test different ideas and instantly get feedback for how well a specific design performs. With Verify, interactive design firm ZURB is now giving designers an toolkit with eight different test for evaluating and comparing their ideas based on user feedback.

There has been a lot of talk about the perceived conflicts between Adobe Flash and HTML5 lately, but during it's annual developer conference MAX today, Adobe announced a new product for building interactive HTML5 content and highlighted some of the advantages of developing in HTML5. Adobe Edge, as the new tool is called, will allow developers to easily create interactive HTML5 experiences. Adobe also announced a new open JavaScript framework for animations that it will contribute back to the jQuery project, as well as a new collaboration with Google that will bring better layout and typographical fidelity to WebKit-based browsers.

Wordpress may have begun life as a blogging tool, but the open source publishing platform has evolved into something resembling a full-fledged CMS in recent years, especially with the release of Wordpress 3.0 in June. In fact, it can easily be used to manage a Website for products and businesses, without or without a blog.

While we certainly recommend that any small business maintain a blog, it doesn't have to be the main focus of your company's Wordpress-based Website, thanks to the multitude of themes that are designed with products and businesses in mind.