mobile

I joined nine of the smartest people I know to think through a future-friendly strategy for keeping up with the fast-changing mobile landscape. Here’s what we came up with.

A measly 12 percent of the top 500 US online retailers have mobile websites. Many who do have mobile sites are fumbling with misguided attempts to create lite versions of the “real” website.

Tomi Ahonen shared his snapshot of global mobile stats, including a slew of just-plain-astonishing nuggets.

A stark example of how quickly new platforms generate enthusiasm along with an appetite for learning and community among developers.

A gallery of mobile horrors calls itself “an argument for closed systems,” but more subtly, it’s really an argument that bad taste abounds.

This isn’t a matchup at all. Providing a great experience almost certainly means that you’ll build both web and native-app solutions. We’re all in this together, friends.

Geeks love black-and-white answers, but the same rule applies to the mobile web as every other technology: use the right tool for the job.

VisionMobile’s pretty graphic visualizes the shifts in handset sales over the last ten years.

In recent days, several mobile design-pattern resources have passed through the series of tubes which criss-cross my desk.

Because mobile apps can be used anywhere and anytime, the potential environments and scenarios seem nearly infinite. When planning your app, rely on actual data and research whenever possible. Here are some stats to get you started.

Keynotopia is a sensational resource for using Keynote to prototype app designs.

The latest marketshare stats tell us how the smartphone market is evolving—and boy howdy, it’s all happening fast. How important are these numbers for designers an developers?

An overwhelming number of iPad users are wifi-only, and with good reason.

A touchscreen app can provide useful hints about how it works by using a real-world gizmo as its interface metaphor. But when that gizmo is just eye candy, those hints are just misdirection.

A proof-of-concept Android app shows how easily a hacker could steal your credit card info, underlining an important cultural distinction among platforms: security vs freedom.

Grab the slides and lowdown on my talk “Going Native: the Anthropology of Mobile Apps.”

Got a second? I need your vote to share my ideas about iPad app design at SXSW. If you’re curious about mobile and tablet app design, you’re gonna dig this talk.

O’Reilly Answers recently posted an excerpt from Tapworthy about the ideal size of iPhone tap targets.