designing for a mobile device can lead to a solution that is worlds different than its desktop equivalent.
Context of Use
Users have a very specific need and desire to accomplish their goal in the easiest and fastest way possible. This fact alone helps explain why mobile interfaces are designed the way they are
Feature sets are optimized to streamline common use cases
Use typography to show hierarchy and importance
Features are progressively displayed
Large buttons are used to make interactions actionable
Designing with awareness to context will yield a more atomic design that instead of introducing users to a proverbial blank canvas, will guide them toward accomplishing important tasks. Having to deal with slow data speeds, high network latency, smaller screens, and an unpredictable mode of use only reinforce the need to isolate an application’s essential features and offer access to them when contextually appropriate.
Next time you design an interface for a mobile device, remember to consider context of use and context of the medium as part of your design strategy.
Dealing with phone numbers and other mobile friendly data
Displaying information on a smaller screen
Not using a cursor
Device speed and network latency
Context of the medium
To design an experience that can gracefully coexist with others tools, one needs to understand what kind of media can be processed by specific mobile internet browsers, and when onboard applications are launched.
need to find out hows web app can interact with other apps... especially how we can integret that into harmonia and dropbox feature...
Using traditional web development techniques of creating fluid designs that scale horizontally is the fastest way to deploy a single design to many different mobile devices.
While reading for ideas on doing mock up mobile interface, i stumbled this.
very interesting read on designing for usability for mobile devices and why it is not just a scale down version of your actual desktop website.
Mobile and smartphone usage is most prevalent in the morning and evening.
Smartphone users tend to glance at and skim over emails more than desktop users who tend to fully read emails.
Smartphone users around the world tend to use their smartphones at home more than anywhere else.
From October 2010 to October 2012, email open rates on smartphones increased by 300%.
Mobile email creates twice as many conversions as social and search.
The average price of an order placed from a mobile device is higher than the average order from a tablet or desktop.
Mobile and smartphone usage is higher Thursday – Monday than on Tuesday or Wednesday.
As we use our smartphones more and more, our patterns of email reading and replying change. We could take note of these patterns, especially if doing surveys or email marketing campaigns, for better responses.
Something this app has over air display :
Seems you can have a virtual keyboard for typing texts and also play audio and stream video which the air display cannot do from my understanding from Tamas
One of those rare site that creates a mobile site fast and do not use RSS feed and do WORKS. The drawback is it's only for mobile site and looks weird on desktop. And it's free
to create site orview on your mobile device see here http://m.wix.com/
I realized sound effects works well on my desktop browser but was disabled my mobile safari.
Take note that audio tag has been crippled and disabled by apple on their iphone browsers, meaning they closed a big possibility of webapp development with Audio! We might have to look into other solution for Harmonia.
This webapp demo shows some get around and music playing in the background when you do other things.
This
According to the Google blog, the game is built using “HTML5 features such as WebSockets for real-time gaming synchronicity on desktop and mobile, and Canvas and CSS3 for rich and engaging visuals
Leap Motion – which is basically Kinect on steroids – is a tiny sensor that lets you control your Windows, Mac, or Linux PC with precise mid-air gestures. The company wants to launch with as much great software support as possible, and Google Earth is a big feather in that cap. With version 7.1 for desktops (available now) you can now use Leap to zoom through big cities, rustic boroughs, and Arctic tundra like you’re Obi Wan Kenobi.
TweetDeck:
Easily one of the most popular tools for Twitter, period, TweetDeck will help you organize feeds, find focus, even schedule tweets and manage multiple accounts.
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