Comments on: mobile: user interface design – the great frontier http://www.disambiguity.com/mobile-user-interface-design-the-great-frontier/ Observing, reflecting, designing. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:14:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: leisa.reichelt http://www.disambiguity.com/mobile-user-interface-design-the-great-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-112 leisa.reichelt Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:26:48 +0000 http://www.disambiguity.com/2006/03/mobile-user-interface-design-the-great-frontier/#comment-112 Yes, at least in Australia people have suggested that the 3G wave hasn't taken off yet and that will be the tipping point for people to use mobile web more and, therefore, for mobile web design to become more of an issue/discipline. Having said that, many phones for years now have had a browser or two installed and the capability for browsing has been there (on 2.5G, it was certainly less fun, I'll admit). Awareness of the world outside of the telco's content is, from my anecdotal research, very low. I think that the telco's for the moment are v, happy with this. I'm wondering what we can do to change this! (or, perhaps more realistically, which big player(s) are going to lead the opening of this frontier). I think that in talking about BBC, you're probably on the right track. Here in Aus. one of our major dailies, the Sydney Morning Herald, has had a handheld version for years... I'm not sure of the other news services. But, the telco's have all bundled up news feeds into their own mobile portals... so I'd be interested to know how many people go direct to SMH on handheld for their news. Yes, at least in Australia people have suggested that the 3G wave hasn’t taken off yet and that will be the tipping point for people to use mobile web more and, therefore, for mobile web design to become more of an issue/discipline.

Having said that, many phones for years now have had a browser or two installed and the capability for browsing has been there (on 2.5G, it was certainly less fun, I’ll admit).

Awareness of the world outside of the telco’s content is, from my anecdotal research, very low. I think that the telco’s for the moment are v, happy with this. I’m wondering what we can do to change this! (or, perhaps more realistically, which big player(s) are going to lead the opening of this frontier).

I think that in talking about BBC, you’re probably on the right track. Here in Aus. one of our major dailies, the Sydney Morning Herald, has had a handheld version for years… I’m not sure of the other news services. But, the telco’s have all bundled up news feeds into their own mobile portals… so I’d be interested to know how many people go direct to SMH on handheld for their news.

]]> By: Gordon http://www.disambiguity.com/mobile-user-interface-design-the-great-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Gordon Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:51:04 +0000 http://www.disambiguity.com/2006/03/mobile-user-interface-design-the-great-frontier/#comment-108 I use a Microsoft smartphone and so have mobile Internet Explorer and an address bar that'll take me anywhere. My own site used to be quite friendly (and still aims to be but there's a CSS bug I've yet to quash) by providing the content first, then the navigation and so on... As for good examples, they are few and far between and seem to be aimed more at 'PDA' viewing than for phones. The BBC News PDA site is quite readable on a mobile phone though, I visit that almost everyday on the train. Programmable keys would be the way to go though, assigning common 'browser' tasks to a phones keypad would help a lot of designers. At the moment it's very much treated just like a teeny-tiny screen. You know people can scroll and click but that's about it... Or maybe it's bandwidth that is stopping things taking off... but then a simple bit of CSS to hide images from mobile users would help with that. Yes, tis a puzzle indeed. I use a Microsoft smartphone and so have mobile Internet Explorer and an address bar that’ll take me anywhere.

My own site used to be quite friendly (and still aims to be but there’s a CSS bug I’ve yet to quash) by providing the content first, then the navigation and so on…

As for good examples, they are few and far between and seem to be aimed more at ‘PDA’ viewing than for phones. The BBC News PDA site is quite readable on a mobile phone though, I visit that almost everyday on the train. Programmable keys would be the way to go though, assigning common ‘browser’ tasks to a phones keypad would help a lot of designers. At the moment it’s very much treated just like a teeny-tiny screen. You know people can scroll and click but that’s about it…

Or maybe it’s bandwidth that is stopping things taking off… but then a simple bit of CSS to hide images from mobile users would help with that.

Yes, tis a puzzle indeed.

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