Riffing on the recent zooming UI launches, Carlo Longino thinks that the one of the basic questions related to the design of mobile applications is not giving people access to more, but giving them access to the right stuff.
“A common complaint about the mobile web is that it’s unattractive, or even useless, because of the small screen size, but I’ve never much bought into that. Is this focus on zooming a reflection of the idea that making the mobile web and mobile content better is just a question of fitting more on the screen? When we talk about “more” in this context, the focus should be on richness, not sheer quantity, and I remain convinced that this is a information architecture issue as much as a technical issue. The right idea isn’t to simply throw more information at mobile users, but to deliver better information to them.”
Link: Mobile UI Trends: Is More Better? (mobhappy.com)
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