Ryan over at Punchkickinteractive is always good for a great post. This time the 5 Commandments of Mobile Web design. Here a quick summary:
1. The Mobile Web is not the little sister of the Traditional web.
2. Give People What they want, when they want it
3. Build unique mobile content, or don’t bother at all.
4. Make it useable (3xtimes)
5. Don’t forget about design. Seriously
and my 6th one:
If you design for mobile, read Ryan’s book (cannot find link now…but read it!).
Interesting article in the New York Times and the screen of the Iphone. I partially agree with the article, however the Iphonemania is kind of getting on my nerves. Especially when 1000 people line up in front of my office.
Here a nice excerpt from the article “Slipstream - On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff::
“By having fewer items to scan for on a small display, users can find what they want more quickly and can be more confident that they have made the right choice,†said Ben Shneiderman, a computer scientist who founded the Human-Computer Interaction Library at the University of Maryland. “If you just put the juicy stuff up there it works better.â€