If you are looking for a position in mobile UX, the Design For Mobile site has
lots of them, along with over 100 pages of other resources for mobile design.

http://patterns.design4mobile.com/

or the direct link
http://patterns.design4mobile.com/index.php/MobileDesignJobs

If you are recruiting, please post your job there. It's free; just create a wiki
account and you're good.


If your organization wants to help sponsor this resource, please contact me
directly.


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Barbara Ballard
Little Springs Design - designing the mobile user experience
barbara@...
785-838-3003

Hi,

My company Bamboudesign (below) has an immediate opening for an outstanding
interaction designer with experience in mobile UI design, in particular the
iPhone. Please read the job posting below for details.

Send resumes to jobs@....

Regards,
Marine


Company: Bamboudesign, Inc
URL: www.bamboudesign.com
Job Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Title: Interaction Designer for Mobile
Job Duration: Permanent

About the Company:
Bamboudesign (www.bamboudesign.com) is a San Francisco-based, privately funded
start-up company that builds innovative branded applications for mobile devices.
We design and develop unique applications based on user experience and advance
technical solutions, that allow us to deliver rapidly and reliably.

Job Description:
The interaction designer will be responsible for the interface interaction and
design of all projects at Bamboudesign, including client and in-house projects.
He/she will interface with clients directly and work with the engineering team
to communicate UI specifications, ensuring technical compliance or adjusting
design as needed.

Job Qualifications:
* Mobile user interface design experience, preferably on iPhone apps (or other
touch-screen devices such as Android)
* Experience with rapid prototyping
* Outstanding interaction design and specifications capability
* Excellent graphic design skills
* Comfortable in fast paced environments
* Can work fast and well
* Highly professional, independent, outspoken and comfortable interfacing with
clients
* Friendly and adaptable!

The candidate will have a portfolio to show past work, and describe the tools
and methodology used.

Contact Information:
Please send an email with your resume to Marine at jobs@...

Just as a follow up:
As it seems, the problem diappears when the is present:

<meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width, height = device-height"
/>

"… the presence of the viewport meta tag in the page's head section indicates
the author has taken care of optimizing for mobile, small screen rendering is
not applied."
Source:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-mobile-9-5-the-developer-angle/

regards
Michael

http://www.mobilewebdesign.de/?p=41


--- In mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com, Michael Schwarz <groups@...> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> thanks for confirming this effect...
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Schwarz, Berlin
> http://www.mobilewebdesign.de/
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Original message Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009, 21:05:
>
> > Hi, Micheal yes apparently my members of my mobile site have complained of
this same issue!!
> >  John
> > --- On Wed, 2/4/09, Michael Schwarz <groups@...> wrote:
> > From: Michael Schwarz <groups@...>
> > Subject: [mobiledesign] Opera Mini and CSS background-images
> > To: "mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com" <mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com>
> > Received: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 5:56 AM
>
> > Hi,
>
> > it seems, as if Opera mini (4.x) often loads CSS background images
> > only after one or two reloads.
>
> > Has anyone encountered this too?
>
> > Michael
>
> > --
> > Michael Schwarz, Berlin
> > http://www.mobilewebdesign.de/
>
>
> > ------------------------------------
>
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > __________________________________________________________________
> > Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to
> > Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com
>

HI All,

We have many requirements for IT Companies at Ahmedabad,

Current opening: (Exp. 2+)

• Web Designer(Jr. & Sr. )

Photoshop designs -HTML and CSS layouts designing with table and div tags.

 -Dynamic template designing

 Desired Profile: - Candidate must have following technical expertise: HTML, XHTML, CSS, CSS2 and Photoshop.

Additional skills: - Dream weaver, Flash will be a plus.

• JAVA Software Developer

         Developing web applications
          -Should be familiar with MYSQL, JAVA (Core Java and Advanced Java),

-  STRUNTS, SQL servers, JSP.
     Required high performance in real time application
-   Socket programming, Java network programming, and shell programming    would bean added advantage.
-Knowledge of SMPP would be an added advantage.
Education: - M.C.A., M.Sc.IT, B.E

.

• PHP Programmer
• ASP.NET Programmer
• VB.net
• Tale caller
• Sales Executive

FOR ALL POSITION REOUIRE 2 year+ experience,

Please mentioned project details and live URL which you have done.

 Interested candidate should mail their resume to: viral@... in along with your:

1) Total Work Experience:

2) Current Salary

3) Expected Salaries

4) How soon can you join (if selected?)

5) Relocation to Ahmedabad (Yes/ No)

6) Contact details (Mobile/ Residence)

7) Current Designation

All the website URLS which you have done. If you have done any websites in DIV tag then specify.

Note: For All above Position Salary decide at the time of selection. Short listed candidates will be intimated very soon. So keep checking your mails daily.

For Daily Update join our group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jobsv4u

Regards,

Viral Soni

9925436615

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM, f_friel <ffriel@...> wrote:
> We've a mobile web site and we're getting a lot of visits but stickiness is
> something we're concerned about. How do we ensure users come back.
>
> We're considering hiring a user experience expert to review and provide
> feedback and recommend changes.
>
> Some questions:
> - Is this worth while? What should we pay?
> - Is hiring someone the best approach? If not, what is?

Caveat: this is a service that we provide, so I'm biased. You can find
info on our service here:
http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/expert-review/


Reading a bit into your situation, it sounds like you are in need of
feedback, preferably of user research. If you have the internal time
and expertise, you could set up a cheap user research program.
Options:

1. In-person interview-based usability testing with a combination of
new and existing users. This will get you the best results; you'll
have detailed information on how users are perceiving your product.
Drawback: it's expensive (US $15k or more, outsourced, per study) and
converting the research results to design recommendations (thus
getting the most out of the study) should likely be done by a
designer.

2. Create surveys for existing users. This can be cheap, but it's got
a bunch of drawbacks.

3. Hire somebody to do a design review. If you can get somebody with
good UX/design expertise and deep mobile expertise (unless you are
just sending to iPhone, then more normal expert web designers could
suffice)

4. Full-time hire. Can be great ... but it'll cost you a
professional-level salary.

FYI, a typical project for us, including design & research, costs less
than a year's salary. There are exceptions ... but then there are a
lot of projects at the lower end.

And in general, I fully agree with Mike. I have watched clients
cherry-pick what we have to say. Then, when it blows up in their face,
they have to re-invest (and deal with the lost opportunity), re-design
... and do pretty much what we said originally.



~~~~~
Barbara Ballard
Skype: barbara_ballard
Twitter, Delicious: barbaraballard
email: barbara@...
1.785.838.3003

IMO, this is an area where user experience specialists really earn their keep.
You need someone who can truly empathize with your users and understand what
they are doing on the site and what will bring them back time and time again.
Good user experience people understand the emotional draw of a service and
recommend changes that use these insights to create a truly compelling service.

w/o knowing anything about your service/product I have no idea if hiring a FT UE
person is worth it or not. You can reach out to me if you like and I can give
you my thoughts.

In terms of hiring a contractor, this can be worthwhile if you plan on listening
to the advice. If you go buffet on it (picking and choosing what to listen to)
chances are you'll accidentally ignore a nuance that makes the biggest
different. Design is all about the details.

Mike
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mholzer

--- In mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com, "f_friel" <ffriel@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We've a mobile web site and we're getting a lot of visits but stickiness is
something we're concerned about.  How do we ensure users come back.
>
> We're considering hiring a user experience expert to review and provide
feedback and recommend changes.
>
> Some questions:
> - Is this worth while?  What should we pay?
> - Is hiring someone the best approach?  If not, what is?
>
> We're a start up, so a cheaper (free) approach would be great to hear about.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank.
>

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Andres Montiel, CUA <kyutums@...> wrote:
>
> Does Google Analytics work on mobile? If it does, it would be a very good
> start for now. :)

No, not really. It uses Javascript for detection; the vast majority of
mobile devices out there do not support Javascript. If you are going
for mobile web analytics, be sure you choose one that uses a
single-pixel technique. A free one is Admob.

Also, Google Analytics does not provide click paths, at least not in a
way useful to designers.

~~~~~
Barbara Ballard
Skype: barbara_ballard
Twitter, Delicious: barbaraballard
email: barbara@...
1.785.838.3003

Hi,

We've a mobile web site and we're getting a lot of visits but stickiness is
something we're concerned about.  How do we ensure users come back.

We're considering hiring a user experience expert to review and provide feedback
and recommend changes.

Some questions:
- Is this worth while?  What should we pay?
- Is hiring someone the best approach?  If not, what is?

We're a start up, so a cheaper (free) approach would be great to hear about.

Thanks,
Frank.

Hey everyone,

This isn't specifically about mobile applications design, but I'm working on
some academic research and some input from technical professionals like
yourselves would really help.  I am a graduate student at the University of
Washington working toward my degree in Human Centered Design and Engineering.
I'm currently involved in a research group that is interested in the use of
Internet-based applications to support work (not socializing).

We've created an on-line survey about how professionals are using applications
available through the web.  The survey is completely anonymous and should take
less than 10 minutes to complete. Also, this survey is for academic research -
it is NOT market research. Your quick contribution would be very valuable to my
research group!

Survey URL: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/commprac/76625

Our lit review showed that there isn't a lot of data on how people are using
Internet-based applications in the work world, even with all the buzz about
Google Docs, Basecamp, etc. We're focusing on tech-savvy populations to see if
we can provide baseline information about how applications like these are being
used in the professional world. If you can spare a few minutes to fill this out,
it would really be beneficial to us.

Feel free to send me any questions about the group or the survey.

Thank you in advance!

Sincerely, Toni Ferro UW grad student

Corporate travel budget have you down? No chance for training?

We've made Design For Mobile (April 21-22, Lawrence, KS, USA)
available for online participation as well! We're especially hoping
for attendance from India, Brazil, and other places where getting to
any mobile user experience conference is challenging.

Your whole team can attend using one connection, so the $500 price is
pretty reasonable.

Conference site: http://design4mobile.mobi/conference.html

Attend virtually: http://design4mobile.mobi/webinar.html


~~~~~
Barbara Ballard
Skype: barbara_ballard
Twitter, Delicious: barbaraballard
email: barbara@...
1.785.838.3003

Hi fellow mobile designers,

I want to make sure everybody knows about Design For Mobile, the only
North American conference focused on mobile design, user experience,
user research, and usability. It's a great learning opportunity and a
great networking opportunity. You'll get some of the latest research
affecting how you design mobile sites or services, some cutting edge
thinking, and plenty to make you go "hmm".

Early Bird deadline is March 7!

http://design4mobile.mobi/conference.html

~~~~
Barbara Ballard
barbara@... 1-785-838-3003

All,

I'm posting this for my husband's company so please respond directly
to him (Rich): rpasqua@...

Description:
We need a mobile testing or marketing company to help us with project
for a major handset OEM, starting ASAP. We would like to capture the
consumer / brand experience through visuals and video if possible.

Our client wants to see how they can improve the overall brand
experience mainly on luxury mobile devices like, the Prada phone, the
Gucci phone and Vertu handsets.

We will need 20-40 screens and recordings and observations on 5-10
mobile handsets. We will need to observe the following.
- How do native apps look and respond on various handsets across
UK carriers.
- What is the experience across network operator applications
(Verizon)
- Record observations on "add on applications". Apps you
download. Google maps, Yahoo Go, tec.

Please contact Rich Pasqua at rpasqua@... more details.

Jason,

You must have had a very, very powerful computer in 1999 then :)

Most new Webkit based devices have very competent web browsers, the
iPhone browser even has functionality that the desktop browser doesn't.

Ranjeet is asking about developing for newer devices and all of these
have good support for CSS and AJAXy Javascript.

Ranjeet, you should look at the Mobile Safari documentation, not the
native documentation. The Apple documentation gives a good overview of
how to build a touch site. This applies to more than just the iPhone
though. Non-touch devices will need a different methodolgy though.

Please check here for some general useful info:

Mobile Web Application Best Practices: http://www.w3.org/TR/mwabp/

Scott

On 9 Feb 2009, at 10:10, jasonnavarro2003 wrote:

> Hi Ranjeet,
>
> You just need to use the viewport meta tag as well as build the page
> using html & javascript like it was 1999. Seriously the new devices
> are just about as powerful as PC's back in 1999.
>
> You may also want to check out the AptanaIDE it should have a bunch of
> ajax examples already added to the IDE.
>
> Jason
>
> --- In mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com, "Ranjeet Elkunchwar"
> <ranjeetre@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I am trying to learn how to build mobile sites (accessible by new age
>> devices like the iPhones, HTC diamond etc, which are touch based
>> interfaces) with Webkit.
>>
>> Could anyone please point me to the required resources? I have been
>> through the Safari development modules for the native iPhone
>> behaviours and apps.
>>
>> Any help/advice is appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ranjeet
>>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

Hi John,

thanks for confirming this effect...

Michael

--
Michael Schwarz, Berlin
http://www.mobilewebdesign.de/






Original message Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009, 21:05:

> Hi, Micheal yes apparently my members of my mobile site have complained of
this same issue!!
>  John
> --- On Wed, 2/4/09, Michael Schwarz <groups@...> wrote:
> From: Michael Schwarz <groups@...>
> Subject: [mobiledesign] Opera Mini and CSS background-images
> To: "mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com" <mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com>
> Received: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 5:56 AM

> Hi,

> it seems, as if Opera mini (4.x) often loads CSS background images
> only after one or two reloads.

> Has anyone encountered this too?

> Michael

> --
> Michael Schwarz, Berlin
> http://www.mobilewebdesign.de/


> ------------------------------------

> Yahoo! Groups Links






>
> __________________________________________________________________
> Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to
> Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

Hi Ranjeet,

You just need to use the viewport meta tag as well as build the page
using html & javascript like it was 1999. Seriously the new devices
are just about as powerful as PC's back in 1999.

You may also want to check out the AptanaIDE it should have a bunch of
ajax examples already added to the IDE.

Jason

--- In mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com, "Ranjeet Elkunchwar"
<ranjeetre@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to learn how to build mobile sites (accessible by new age
> devices like the iPhones, HTC diamond etc, which are touch based
> interfaces) with Webkit.
>
> Could anyone please point me to the required resources? I have been
> through the Safari development modules for the native iPhone
> behaviours and apps.
>
> Any help/advice is appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Ranjeet
>

Hi,

it seems, as if Opera mini (4.x) often loads CSS background images
only after one or two reloads.

Has anyone encountered this too?

Michael

--
Michael Schwarz, Berlin
http://www.mobilewebdesign.de/

Good morning out there
regularly we are evaluating different content mobile adaptation
frameworks, open source and commercial.

We found netbiscuits (www.netbiscuits.com), a commercial and very
expensive content rendering webservice. It seems to be very good when you read
their marketing material :) i am just missing the flexibility i would
have with a wurfl-based OSS transcoder. E.g. in their markup
(biscuitML) you seem to have no direct access to device capabilities.
A "if(deviceHasTouchscreen) {put this image};} seems to be not possible.

Is anyone here in this group who knows netbiscuits and wants to share
his experience?

What kind of content rendering engines are you using?
myMobileWeb?
WALL?
Volantis?
Sevenval?

....


I'm curious.

Benno


-----
insertEFFECT - web mobile specialists
http://blog.insfx.com
www.inserteffect.com

You couch potato you... ;) J.

On 1/31/09, Tom Hume <Tom.Hume@...> wrote:
> Because it's convenient, or because it's the only choice.
>
> I'm noticing myself starting to use a mobile, or especially an iPhone,
> to get online instead of walking 6 feet across the living room and
> firing up the laptop. I talk to a few other people who sheepishly
> admit to the same behaviour... leaving me to wonder if laziness will
> drive mobile use, once offputting tariffs are gone and decent devices
> proliferate.
>
> On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:34, limitlessborders wrote:
>
>> I know you are going to tell me its in your books :) (which I have
>> purchased a few). BUT, what is your thought on this. Why (in your
>> perception) is a user using a tiny screen to access the mobile web?
>
> --
> Future Platforms Ltd
> e: Tom.Hume@...
> t: +44 (0) 1273 819038
> m: +44 (0) 7971 781422
> company: www.futureplatforms.com
> personal: tomhume.org
>
>
>
>

--
Sent from my mobile device

In my case, partly because currently I don't have any other means to
when I'm not at my office (unless I feel like walking to and sitting
in an internet cafe)...

Cheers,

John.

On 1/30/09, limitlessborders <limitlessborders@...> wrote:
> I know there are many professionals on this board that have personal
> sites or work with other companies that have websites. I am curious as
> to what your perception is of why users are using a mobile device to
> access your website?
>
> First what comes to mind is of course: Mobility, convenience, single
> purpose use, reference... and I'm sure much much more.
>
> I know you are going to tell me its in your books :) (which I have
> purchased a few). BUT, what is your thought on this. Why (in your
> perception) is a user using a tiny screen to access the mobile web?
>
> Thank you,
> Mark
>
>

--
Sent from my mobile device

--Well i can not speak for all site owners but i know for myself its
my reputation i have on a few of the other community sites i belong
to. If you care to see it for yourself i invite yout to view http://
theparadiselost.net/m on your mobile- In
mobiledesign@yahoogroups.com, "limitlessborders"
<limitlessborders@...> wrote:
>
> I know there are many professionals on this board that have personal
> sites or work with other companies that have websites. I am curious
as
> to what your perception is of why users are using a mobile device to
> access your website?
>
> First what comes to mind is of course: Mobility, convenience, single
> purpose use, reference... and I'm sure much much more.
>
> I know you are going to tell me its in your books :) (which I have
> purchased a few). BUT, what is your thought on this. Why (in your
> perception) is a user using a tiny screen to access the mobile
web?
>
> Thank you,
> Mark
>

I know there are many professionals on this board that have personal
sites or work with other companies that have websites. I am curious as
to what your perception is of why users are using a mobile device to
access your website?

First what comes to mind is of course: Mobility, convenience, single
purpose use, reference... and I'm sure much much more.

I know you are going to tell me its in your books :) (which I have
purchased a few). BUT, what is your thought on this. Why (in your
perception) is a user using a tiny screen to access the mobile web?

Thank you,
Mark

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Tom Hume <Tom.Hume@...> wrote:
> Completely agree. It makes it way easier to test at all on remote handsets
> and networks (which is an amazing achievement btw), but tends to be a bit
> sluggish (and is accessed via a desktop client) so not so hot for user
> testing.
>
> On 22 Jan 2009, at 08:54, Luca Passani wrote:
>
> I discussed this with Barbara in the past and she'll probably tell you
> something along the following lines once the sun is high in Kansas too:
>
> DeviceAnywhere is good for technicians to validate content, but the
> network latency and the totally different interaction pace and style (as
> compared to regular devices) will introduce way too much distortion to
> make usability testing meaningful.


Oh goodness, Tom and Luca agreeing!

I can imagine DeviceAnywhere being used for two types of user testing:
local and remote. For local, to make it work you'd have to deal with
network latency (on top of the device's network latency), wrong
interaction style (mouse versus hands), and inability to move the
device.

For remote, you have all those challenges plus you will have to walk
the participant through very painful installation, account
creation/access, and a dreadfully confusing device selection process.
You'd have to have a person on the remote site just to manage the
setup. NOT easy. Not what it was intended to do. Would definitely
affect results.

Plus, for many remote places (including some operators in Canada and
Australia), DA doesn't have coverage. You want to test with familiar
devices & behaviors; operators affect device behavior.

~~~~
Barbara Ballard
barbara@... 1-785-838-3003