Interesting in that it’s in the Times.
“As it turns out, Mr. Jobs may well have understated the quality of the iPhone Web experience. Visiting Web sites that have been redesigned for the iPhone is often a quicker and more pleasing experience than it is on those increasingly cinema-style desktop displays, which routinely have 20-inch or larger screens. It seems counterintuitive, but small really is beautiful.”
Link: On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff (nytimes.com, via)
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When asked to write 2 pages in 2 days by a publisher, Mark Twain replied ‘I can do 30 pages in 2 days, it will take me 30 days to write 2 pages’
The severe constraints of the small screen force designers to think about the primary goals/needs/desires of the user and delete the non essential.
Too much canvass makes for sloppy design /pauric
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