Hi Andy, LBi has worked with charities before and there is good mobile experience here both on the technical and design sides. Email me if you think we can ...
Hello, Regarding recent mails about commercial services companies provide: I would prefer these messages not to be sent to the list. If we allow one commercial...
PPK, I agree on the commercial messages. Perhaps the general rule of thumb can be if someone wants to solicit help they can but request that the responses be...
Andy, From the start it's best to look at who needs you will be serving and to get an idea of what phones they are working with. For the most part you can ...
Hey guys, this is Igor aka @igorskee from Mobify. Thanks @ppk for setting up this list. One question we get asked a lot is whether iPad is considered to be a...
As a community, we need to move on from the obsession with glass, silicon and plastic. By this I mean that we're scrambling over techniques and tricks to cater...
Totally agree with James. I think we should start talking of "context adaptation", instead of content adaptation. About the iPad, just stumbled upon this user...
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Barney Carroll
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Oct 11, 2010 9:40 am
Isn't form factor ostensibly (when it is ostensible) the best indicator of the user's situation? Going by that assumption, I'd class the iPad as a desktop...
Why not simply call it what it is, a hybrid. BTW totally agree with James. The analogy I'm starting to use is mobile vs desktop is like radio vs TV. I like...
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Barney Carroll
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Oct 11, 2010 4:27 pm
... Can you elaborate on what this implies for HCI, and the way we should be designing for it? I immediately recognise the observation as astute, but it ...
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Barney Carroll
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Oct 11, 2010 5:00 pm
... Can you elaborate on what this implies for HCI, and the way we should be designing for it? I immediately recognise the observation as astute, but it ...
Great point, James. I think there is a fairly direct correlation between screen size + form factor & context of use - but that could always evolve as devices...
Hi James, I typically agree with you, but this time our opinions diverge every so slightly. ;) Responses in-line (apologies to those of you who hate in-line...
My take on iPad and how it affects web design is this: it shouldn't really matter much. (Conceit: I do not have an iPad.) Apart from avoiding Flash, making...
... We've seen this pattern before. A new gadget has to be able to handle what is already out there. (The iPhone was also, correctly, touted as being able to...
Bryan, I think we do fully agree, actually - on all points. My gist was tempered by what appears to be a rapidly snowballing assumption - predominantly by...
On reflection, I'm sure you're right. The ideal web app or web site would distinguish between touch-based tablet and desktop. (Not that you disputed it, but I...
... This is going to stay extremely difficult to infer from feature detection. There are touch-enabled phones with additional input mechanisms. Firefox 4 adds...
*Exactly* - which I think increases the concern that we might tie ourselves in knots about plastic and glass, when it could be the human's state that matters...
I've been thinking about this as well in a different context not tied to devices. We have LOTS of research related to the way people read on the web. They...
... Interesting ideas. My personal feeling is that we're going to design and develop for mobile first (as Luke Wroblewski reminds us time and again), and that ...
In a parallel universe, network operators would step up to the plate with this sort of thing. Why be a bit pipe if you can be a context pipe? Couldn't helpful...
... that currently infest the Internet, with their sidebars and Facebook buttons and ads and stuff. Mobile first (cheers!) but while a lot of what goes into...
I think one of the reasons this discussion may appear to be going around in circles is that it's too abstract. Rather than focus on what technology can/might...
