• Domains - Posted by James Pearce 4 weeks ago
• A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part II
• This article follows on from last month's Part I, where we discussed some of the principles of handling mobile users and switching their experiences. If you haven't read it yet please do so before we dive into some of the technical ideas and implementation details.

• Design Patterns - Posted by ronan 3 weeks ago
• Don't forget the supine surfer
• It's easy to be waylaid by the word "mobile" in "mobile web", to assume that the defining characteristic of mobile web surfer is the fact that they are out and about. Not always so! Sometimes, mobile = not at PC. Remember that "mobile web" often means the "consumed-on-mobile-device web" rather than the "out-and-about web". 

• Best Practices - Posted by ronan 4 weeks ago
• Transcoding: what are the Viagra, Cialis and "Dear Winner" of HTML tag soup?
• Over the last 6 months or so part of the tech team in dotMobi has been working on Instant Mobilizer, a site mobilizer service to help small businesses dip their toes in the waters of the mobile web. One of the big problems with content transcoding is deciding when it should be applied: if there is little hope of it working well another alternative should be offered. 

• Design Patterns - Posted by jonarne 4 weeks ago
• One web 2.0 - social edition
• I bet I am not the only one wondering what Nokia was going to announce yesterday... In addition to the N97, Nokia Messaging was the big news. Put short, Nokia Messaging is enabling a bunch of IM-like services on the phone. In my mind this is an important change in the traditional mind pattern device manufacturers, and MNOs, have had until the iPhone.

• Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan 5 weeks ago
• The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web
• Our sister-site mobiThinking.com has just published an eBook on "The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web". In it there are examples of winners and sinners, those who do it right, and those not quite right, and why! So now might be a good time to fire up your mobile browser and let us know if you agree.

• Usability - Posted by atrasatti 7 weeks ago
• Mobile Device UI trends
• I was reading on Techcrunch a rumor about the new UI design for Windows Mobile 6.5. See the article, Rumor: Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshot shenanigans. I quickly followed up with a blog post on my personal blog, Windows Mobile 6.5 and Zumobi, but while that writing that quick post made me think about the new UIs and trends in mobile devices.

• Stylesheets - Posted by paulca 8 weeks ago
• Mobile App Design: Getting to the Point - Part II
• Following on from part I, I want to put into practice the principles that I isolated by looking at GMail, Twitter and Facebook. I’ll apply the principles to one of the most common of web applications: the online store. I want to look at three typical online store pages and then go through some ideas about how best to apply mobile-design principles to the pages. I'll go through the process of building the site from the ground up... from simple sketches through wireframing and the final design.

• Browsers - Posted by James Pearce 9 weeks ago
• Introducing the new DeviceAtlas Data Explorer
• We teased you about this a few months ago and we've now finally finished! DeviceAtlas v2.1 offers analytics tools to explore the mobile device information in its database. In the video below, James and Andrea give you a teaser of how it works, and talk through some of the cool new tricks. We're going live next Monday, and we'll announce here when it's available. UPDATE: we've gone live.

• Mobile Web Design - Posted by paulca 10 weeks ago
• Mobile App Design: Getting to the Point - Part I
• This is the first in a two part look at mobile web application design. In part 1, I focus on three current 'big guns' of mobile web applications and look at how they solve the problems of mobile application design by getting to the point. In part 2 I'll get practical and run through a series of steps to design a small sample mobile eCommerce site, applying what was learned in this article.

• Domains - Posted by James Pearce 13 weeks ago
• A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part I
• An important question that most web developers ask when developing their first mobile web site is "how do I distinguish between mobile users and desktop users?". Although this seems like a simple enough question at first, of course there's more to it than meets the eye. In fact, what do we even mean by 'distinguish'? How we distinguish their requirements? Their desires? The services they expect? The browsers they happen to be using?