Nokia today announced the availability of Carbide.ui Theme Edition, a powerful and easy to use PC-based tool that lets designers and creative professionals build customized user interfaces for mobile devices based on S60.

Carbide.ui Theme Edition provides graphics professionals and creative designers familiar WYSIWYG and drag-and-drop functionality, plus seamless interplay with leading graphics creation tools for customization of the look and feel of the latest S60-based smartphones. Individuals with no prior experience in mobile user-interface design or knowledge of coding language can use the Carbide.ui Theme editor to customize all S60 UI elements, from background graphics and navigation bar to colors, sounds and morphing effects.

Once a UI theme has been created, Carbide.ui Theme Edition automatically packages it into an installation file and prepares it for Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection, if required, after which it will be ready for deployment to devices. 

In addition to Carbide.ui Theme Edition's drag-and-drop functionality, WYSIWYG environment, support for all customizable UI theme components and full S60 platform support, other key features of Theme Edition include:

• Support for third-party graphics, audio and content editors, allowing linkage with graphics tools that support bitmap, SVG or Flash Lite editing and with audio editing tools that support multiple sound file formats;
• Multiple screen resolutions support, including 352 x 416 pixels, 240 x 320 pixels, and 176 x 208 pixels; and,
• Content import in multiple formats, including SVG, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SWF and TIFF, allowing design artists to use their favorite creative suite.

Carbide.ui Theme Edition is available for download at no charge from www.forum.nokia.com/carbide or www.s60.com.