Mobile Web Design
The Mobile + Social Boom, in Hard Numbers
Financial reports for first-quarter 2012 have started coming out, and there are some impressive unit numbers embedded in them.
Responsive Design is Not the Only Good Answer
We are big believers in the importance of mobile devices. But I am troubled by the degree to which responsive design is preached as the only modern approach.
How to Reliably Tell Android Tablets from Phones
The bizarre reality is that there is no clean, reliable solution for distinguishing Android tablets from Phones. Google really messed this up through a lack of leadership.
Building Great Mobile Sites Quickly and Inexpensively
During the course of 2011, mobile-optimized sites have gone from being a rarity to becoming a standard part of what we do. Last fall, we began using jQuery Mobile, and we're now using for most of our new sites.
Beyond the Desktop: mobile phone and tablet websites and apps
Unless you've been hiding under the proverbial rock, it's no surprise that the mobile web has exploded in the past year. It's a huge shift in the Internet landscape, and it changes the rules in a variety of ways. We've put together a webinar to share some of our experiences creating mobile and table websites and apps. Our goal is to help designers create multi-platform solutions, making the best of phones, tablets, and computers.
Writing and Design for Mobile
When you're designing a mobile site you must pare down your information to the essentials. Jacob Nielsen has a good post today on this topic, Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users.
Design for Tablets: Big Phones or Small Desktops or Something Else Entirely?
Some sites that have a mobile-optimized version with automatic device-type detection will deliver the mobile version of the site to iPads and other tablets. Usually, this delivers a poor result. Tablets are better thought of as being like desktop browsers with some modest differences, rather than as being in the same class with mobile phones.
Mobile Web: Responsive Design or Separate Pages?
In investigating our customer's needs and looking at a variety of design approaches, we've found that responsive design is the answer for some situations, but that a separate set of pages is more appropriate in many cases.
Web Site, Mobile Site, and iPad App Create Potent Sales Tool
It's been a long time since we've blogged about all the great new sites being built on the Webvanta platform. There's one site we're particularly excited about, not just because of the site itself, but because of the accompanying iPad app and mobile site.
Luke Wroblewski on Mobile Web Design
At An Event Apart in Seattle this week, we spent a few minutes with Luke Wroblewski to dicuss how designers can tackle the challenge of designing for the mobile web.
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