“It’s worth repeating that you should not design your software to be consistent across devices. You should design your software to be consistent with the device it runs on. Your users are unlikely to use your software on many different handsets. When your software runs on an old Sony Ericsson phone, it should use the [...]
This week’s Economist has a special report on mobility. Here are links to some of the articles in the report (which seem to be available for free now), more are after the link.
Nomads at last. “Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places—and each other, says Andreas Kluth”
Labour movement. [...]
”...It’s time that we recognised that for the majority of the world’s population, and for the foreseeable future, the cell phone is the computer, and it will be the portal to the internet, and the communications tool, and the schoolbook, and the vaccination record, and the family album, and many other things, just as soon [...]
A nice little vignette.
“In recent years, the challenge in designing interfaces for mobile devices has shifted from finding ways around technological limitations to finding ways around technological overload. Consequently, more so today than ever before, it is important for designers and handset manufacturers to place more effort into first identifying the core purpose of any [...]
Published by Gabriel White.