Tag Archives: Usability
Number crunching: USA is number one in mobile Web surfing or is it?
March 16, 2009, by mobiThinking
The US was crowned top country for mobile Internet browsing last week by the press, as mobile analytics company Bango released its latest figures, overtaking the UK. But can we say with certainty that the US is number one and UK is number two?... Read More
Effective Design for Multiple Screen Sizes
January 15, 2009, by bryanrieger
So you're a designer and have been tasked with the design of a mobile web site. Chances are, unless you're designing for only one device you're quickly going to be faced with a common problem experienced by designers who work with mobile devices; figuring out what screen size to actually design for. For instance:... Read More
A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm – Part II
December 8, 2008, by James Pearce
This article follows on from last month's Part I, where we discussed some of the principles of handling mobile users and switching their experiences. If you haven't read it yet please do so before we dive into some of the technical ideas and implementation details... Read More
Character Encoding Issues and the Mobile Web
December 5, 2008, by casaise
Character encoding, the binary representation underlying every symbol in documents delivered to mobile devices, is often treated as an afterthought in mobile Web development. Many developers simply rely upon ISO-8859-1; not a bad choice, as this encoding efficiently supports all important Western European languages, has long been available in the mobile and fixed Internet, is widespread among low-end phones, and is the default encoding in the HTTP standard... Read More
The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web
December 1, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Our sister-site mobiThinking.com has just published an eBook on "The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web". In it there are examples of winners and sinners, those who do it right, and those not quite right, and why! So now might be a good time to fire up your mobile browser and let us know if you agree... Read More
