Mobile itself is the nuts, bolts, and infrastructure, while mobility is the context which determines if it all works together or doesn’t. From the Harvard Business Review post The Future Isn’t About Mobile; It’s About Mobility Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/31878512@N06/4945216951/in/photostream
The notion that you should create a separate, stripped-down version for ‘the mobile use case’ might be appropriate if such a clean mobile use case existed, but it doesn’t. […] Just because I’m on a small screen doesn’t mean I’m interested in less content or want to do less. […]
Touch gestures can make things better, not just different. That’s an important distinction. – Josh Clark, the author of Tapworthy in Luke W’s write up of Josh’s Busting Mobile Myths presentation Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/coyote-agile/1578404172
Apps are nuggets of magic…In many ways, apps are representative of the changes taking place in personal technology. Small, downloadable chunks of software, they give people access to information in a neatly packaged format From the Economist article Apps on tap – the beauty of bite-sized software talking about why
Looking at the stats of our own site show that 14% of all users on desktops accessed the site directly. All of the rest found us via search engines or referrals. Compare this to our mobile users and 47% of them found us directly. – Rob Borely from In-traction in an
Pretending that you can’t is sort of like pretending that a retailer that once sold primarily via catalogue can’t and shouldn’t sell via the internet too. From the Ecounsultancy article Native apps versus mobile website: three simple rules A great read on why this isn’t an ‘Either-or’ matter, what you
As I mentioned the other day this week is Internet Week Europe and today I did a revised version of my EuroIA talk ‘Designing for everyone, anywhere, at any time’.
Last Friday I did my first public speaking at the EuroIA Summit in Prague. The idea for the talk came on a day where we’d been discussing structure and delivery of content to meet diverse needs at work.
When developing apps across mobile platforms, there should be no devices left with a poorer user experience. From the UX Magazine post App Equality: The same experience who ever you are Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/giovanni_novara1/5817898537
An iPhone app is not a mobile strategy, it’s an iPhone app. Said by Google’s Ian Carrington, tweeted by @chrisjvernon Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/aftab/3602645078/in/photostream
Last week Twitter released version 3.3 of their Twitter iPhone app. Some of the features are lovely and a great example of how to adapt your app according to the device. However, one new features was not great namely the quick bar which overlaps the tweet feed.