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Google's User Experience for Mobile Applications

May 6

Google have unveiled their Mobile User Experience Strategy for the delivery of Mobile Applications. To read more on the overall strategy check out the article "Google’s Mobile User Experience Strategy" over at Information Week.

Google state that the application design can be segmented into 6 layers:

  1. Understanding users, anywhere, anytime
  2. Fits in your pocket
  3. More personal than the PC
  4. Consistency across modes
  5. Localization is intensified
  6. Integrated devices, modes, products

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Mobile Web Guidelines

Jul 27

With input from big players such as Google, Microsoft, Nokia, AOL, AT&T, Ericsson, GoDaddy, and Vodafone the W3C have defined a set of basic guidelines for developing mobile Web content.

Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, consists of instructions on how to avoid technical issues when viewing web content from mobile devices.

The guidelines also focus on how to prevent known problems such as pop-up windows, horizontal page scrolling and more. It is seen that these guides will aid content authors, web developers and web designers when planing to create websites that will also be available via mobile devices.

There is also a Wiki dedicated to the Mobile Web Best Practices, enabling people to actively respond and add valuable input.

Mobile Web Best Practices Wiki


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Mobile Versions of XHTML

Mar 31

Is there really a need for a specific mark-up language for mobile devices? we have seen WML, XHTML Basic, and CHTML. However the latest offering is XHTML Mobile profile and WML2.

Little Spring Design specialise in design and usability UI specifically for mobile devices. Check out this site to keep up-to-date on the latest that is mobile UI.


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4th Generation mobile phone

Jun 8

Move over 3G mobile networks here comes the all new 4G. The forth-generation of mobile phone ready to take the consumer by storm.

The lessons of 3G are learnt with 4G, bringing us the benefits of 3G and Wi-Fi together in a new faster service.

Read on here economist.com


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