7 usability guidelines for websites on mobile devices Mobile Internet is continuing to grow very quickly. These guidelines will help you create or improve your mobile user experience. 1. Reduce the amount of content Not everything shown on a PC site can fit reasonably onto a mobile web page, where space is short and every pixel counts. It's important to reduce the amount of content shown on the mobile-optimised version. Only include the most important content or features. Mobile websites should be very focused. 2. Wide web pages are difficult to view on small mobile phone screens. Remove low priority content and present content using a single column layout Instead, create single column pages that use up the whole width of the screen. 3. It's difficult to fit the navigation across the top of the screen on a mobile web page. On the homepage place the navigation and site search at the top of the page, and leave content for later pages. 4. Ways to reduce the amount of text entry required include: 5. One of Facebook's 3 main mobile versions. 6. 7.
Fitbit Official Site for Activity Trackers & More Shining the Light on Shadow, Adobe’s New Mobile Web Workflow Tool | Adobe Shadow Team Blog Today we’re excited to introduce a brand new offering – Adobe Shadow Labs Release 1, which enables Web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining preview and customization of websites for mobile devices. Mobile compatibility is a top demand of Web designers today, but we were hearing from the web community that building sites for mobile devices was a huge pain point in their workflow. The common process we heard was to manually key in the URLs on each device to check the layout and performance of each page of a site design – nothing short of tedious. Adobe Shadow aims to alleviate the time and stress of working on websites across mobile browsers. Web pros can wirelessly pair multiple smartphones and tablets with their computer and simultaneously view real-time previews of Web content across multiple iOS and Android devices, quickly seeing refreshed website designs with live updates. Shadow at SXSW Availability & Requirements About Bruce Bowman
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Internet Explorer Will Land On The Xbox 360 “This Fall” With Kinect Controls In Tow The announcements just keep pouring out of Microsoft’s press event at the Galen Center, so here’s another one to chew on — Microsoft has announced that a version of their Internet Explorer browser will make its way to the Xbox 360 some time “this fall.” “Internet Explorer coupled with the power of Xbox will for the first time deliver a fast, fluid, intuitive web experience in the living room,” Microsoft’s Marc Whitten said. Given that plenty of their announcements so far have made use of the Kinect, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this one does too. Saying “web hub” brings up the browser’s main landing page (seen above), and from there users will be able to call out search queries that are then plugged into Bing. The on-stage demo seemed to work very well, though it left one particularly weighty question unanswered — how will users input web addresses? It’s certainly possible.
Nielsen Norman Group: UX Training, Consulting, & Research guide to mobile advertising networks (2012) Other guides in this series:• Guide to mobile agencies• Guide to mobile industry awards• Compendium of global mobile stats• The insiders' guides to world’s top mobile markets The guide to mobile advertising networks Welcome to the mobiThinking guide to mobile advertising networks. This is the only place advertisers and publishers can get the real and detailed information required when choosing an ad network to run their mobile campaign or monetize their mobile Web site or app. All data is supplied directly by the networks. mobiThinking is working on the 2014 version of the guide. Three facts you need to know about mobile ad networks: No ad network is dominant. If you're new to mobile ad networks, perhaps start with this step-by-step primer on picking a mobile ad network. mobiThinking divides networks into three main categories, based on the business model. The mobile ad networks (click on each network to read profile) xAd * New: April 2012*YP (AT&T) * New: April 2012* Definitions Don’t miss: