Mobile Design
Student Projects
- Designing for the Mobile Web whitepaper (pdf)
- Whole Foods Mobile
Overview & Standards
- W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative
- W3C Specifications
- Mobile Web Best Practices
- Mobile Web Application Best Practices, 5 January 2009
- Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
- Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
- CSS Mobile
- XHTML-MP
- Wikipedia – Mobile Web
Design
- Mobile Web Design by Cameron Moll
- Smashing Magazine: Mobile Design trends for 2009
- Mobile UI Design Resources, Patterns, Devices and so forth
- Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998. Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, February 17, 2009
- Forget the mobile web: One site should work for all. Bruce Lawson
- Mobile App Design: Getting to the Point – Part I
- Mobile App Design: Getting to the Point – Part II
- Global Authoring Practices for the Mobile Web, Luca Passani
- Standards for M-Learning Project
- Little Springs Design – Mobile Design Wiki
- Mobilize, Don’t Miniaturize – Barbara Ballard, Little Springs Design
- The Mobile Context and People-centric Mobile Computing (PDF format), C. Enrique Ortiz
- Effective Design for Multiple Screen Sizes
- Slipstream – On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff – NYTimes.com
- Mobile User Experience
- Small Surfaces – mobile user interface design
- Engadget Mobile
- Weile.com – Interaction Design Pattern Library
- Designinginterfaces.com
- Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology
- Mobile Web – 21st Century Communications
- Increasing user satisfaction on the mobile web: Technical considerations (PDF format) Dec 2007
- Gaddo Benedetti
- IDC – Wireless & Mobile
- Sender 11 – A Blog about Mobile Interaction Design
- Brian Suda
Social Implications of Mobile Proliferation
- Mobile Phones and the Digital Divide. Ken Banks, IDG News. PC World. December 2008
- Kiwanja.net. Founder, Ken Banks.
- Teaching and Learning Guide for: Social Implications of Mobile Telephony: The Rise of Personal Communication Society (Professor Scott Campbell)
Statistics
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- The Future of the Internet III from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (12/14/2008)
- Generations Online in 2009 from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (1/28/2009)
- World Internet Usage Statistics News & World Population Stats
- The Internet Society (ISOC) Market Research & Statictics (a collection of links to other sites)
- Careful with your statistics. Little Spring Design
- International Telecommunication Union Secretary General Hamadoun Touré announced in New York that worldwide mobile cellular subscribers are likely to reach the 4 billion mark before the end of 2008.
- QuarterlyWorldReview – Q2 2008, by Will Croft and Joss Gillet of Wireless Intellegence
- “Teenagers: A Generation Unplugged” A National Survey by CTIA–The Wireless Association® and Harris Interactive.
- CTIA’s Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey (PDF format)
- Mobile Browsing by Platform Market Share
- Imagining the Internet – Scenario Six: The Evolution of the Internet User Interface t from the 2008 Pew Internet & American Life/Elon University Predictions Survey
- Critical Mass: The Worldwide State of the Mobile Web (PDF format) – Nielsen Mobile, July 2008
- iPhone leads mobile web browsing market March 2009
- Mobile web users to top 1.7 bn by 2013 June 2008
- Trillion with a T, the Newest Giant Industry has Arrived: the Money and Meaning of Mobile – Tomi Ahonen
- State of the Mobile Web – monthly report by Opera
- iPhone and iPod touch continue to dominate smartphone web traffic. by Mel Martin. Reports iPhone traffic at 50%.
- iPhone behind only Nokia and RIM in global smartphone share.
- iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent. by Erick Schonfeld. TechCrunch.
Testing Interface/Validating Code
- Google Mobilizer
- W3C mobileOK Checker
- ready.mobi
- BrowserCam – fee-based cross browser compatibility testing tools, incl. Desktop & iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Win Mobile