A cross-market analysis of mobile activities in Japan, the U.S. and Europe revealed significant differences among consumers by geography. Mobile users in Japan were the “most connected” of the three markets, with more than 75 percent using connected media (browsed, accessed applications or downloaded content) in June, compared to 43.7 percent in the U.S. and 38.5 percent in Europe.
Anyone that has been following mobiledesign.org over the years knows I have had a tough time keeping it up to date. My goal has always been to have it be a community site, with little success.
I hope (for the third time) that I will change the tide.
First, I’m pleased to let you know that I’m writing a book for O’Reilly, entitled Mobile Design & Development. The book will take a lot of my energy to do right, but it also gives me an opportunity to focus on mobiledesign.org like never before.
Second, I’m working on creating a new open-source community resource. I’m using it to collect my research already, but I have grander dreams for it. I hope to release it soon.
Third, I’m currently alpha testing a new site that gathers news and information in and around the mobile space. Based on how the alpha goes, I hope to do a public beta later this week.
I have even more plans for Mobile Design, but I’ll just take it three steps at a time for now. Stay tuned and let me know what you think (or if you can help!).
This document highlights the differences between the WCAG and the W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices.
While a bit short of useful information it references several interesting W3C documents and gives some insight into how these various W3C initiatives will eventually come together.
I will be providing live updates to the WWDC Keynote this morning at 10 AM Pacific.
Opera has released a Mobile Browsing Report chock full for interesting data nuggets about mobile browsing, including growth in Opera’s usage, user content preferences as well as top sites per country.
From the report:
Traffic to social networks comprise almost 40% of the mobile Web according to our “State of the Mobile Web” report, published today. The results both show healthy growth in the numbers of consumers accessing the Web from their mobile devices and provide insight into aggregate consumer preferences when browsing from their phones.
Curious about Android? Curious about LiMo? Never heard of LiMo? Here is a great overview of the two mobile platforms that will likely debut this year.
If those developing the device are looking to start with a complete software solution, they’d probably go with Android. If they’re looking to write their user experience layer from scratch, they’d go with LiMo.
Some great slides were posted from this weeks Mobile Monday London event. Several presentations contain some fantastic metrics and case studies on the benefits of mobile advertising.
I’m glad to see that someone finally put this together. Though I think that the test greatly misses the mark to providing designers and developers with a helpful tool for testing the capabilities of WAP 2.0 browsers.
For example, of all the CSS2 tests to run, min-width would probably be the last I would run. What about just seeing if the browser supports the Cascade of Cascading Stylesheets.
This test seems to be targeting the capabilities common of desktop grade browsers. And if that is the case, why not just run the ACID2 test?
Ashley Highfield of the BBC asks, “do people want to consume a lot of information on a 3”x2” screen?”
Good question. I think so. If it is context to what they are doing, or adds value to the moment, then people will go to incredible lengths and overcome significant hurdles to access content that helps them in that instant. In that instant, size does not matter, the information does.
But Ashley continues to ask “But if the tide is starting to turn to mobile-IP, what devices will win? Mobile phone, e-readers, £100 Linux laptops, or full blown notebooks?”
Yes, all of the above. I don’t think it will be one device, but a few devices that add to value to our lives. Of course, we will always have our phone on us, so that seems like as good a place as any to start.
The first round of speakers have been announced for Design for Mobile conference in Lawrence, Kansas. Should be a great few days!
