Mobile Awesomeness Blog

25 Tips on Designing for Mobile Devices

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:59:31 -0500

We found this excellent article with 25 tips for designing your next mobile site: http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/mobile-web-mastery-25-tips-on-designing-for-mobile-devices/

Create native-looking iPhone/iPad applications from HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:37:41 -0400

Great article from Matthew Might about creating a native-looking iOS application ... visit site.

HTML5 Mobile Boilerplate

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:45:41 -0400

The team that brought us the HTML5 boilerplate has now released a mobile version. It's full of best-practices and recommended techniques. Download it today!

Nielsen: Mobile Content is Twice as Difficult

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:16:49 -0500

Jakob Nielsen touches on some common usability issues for mobile users and why it's so difficult to read on these devices. Read article.

Mobile UI Patterns

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:44:31 -0500

Looking for some mobile UI inspiration? A new site called Mobile UI Patterns (http://mobile-patterns.com) has a fantastic collection of common mobile UI elements. Check it out!

Mobify Network Stats

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:31:45 -0500

Last week Mobify published 2010 Q4 mobile data, which outlines some noticeable mobile web trends. The good thing about their data is that it's all based on mobile web users, not just mobile phone users. The bad thing is that Mobify represents a small segment of traffic in the grand scheme. Still, it's interesting to see iOS still dominating 48-60% of web traffic.

We're on Twitter!

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:49:22 -0500

Now you can get Mobile Awesomeness gallery updates and blog posts on Twitter! We're @mobileawesome. Let's be friends.

DHTMLX Touch Alpha Released

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:41:55 -0500

DHTMLX Touch is a new mobile javascript framework based on the DHTMLX desktop javascript library. The suite has free and commercial licenses depending on how it's used. It's comparable to previously-covered Sencha Touch. Both have a desktop browser library, great documentation, robust UI components and are meant for web applications. Frameworks like these are what's truly exciting about the potential of web apps on mobile webkit-based browsers.

The Smartphone Browser Landscape

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:28:20 -0500

A List Apart just published a well done article summarizing the current state of smartphone web browsers. It's definitely worth reading and referring back to when doing your browser testing.

Smartphone Market Share Numbers from Nielsen

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:34:56 -0500

Early this month, Nielsen released some interesting research about the US smartphone market. Their survey shows that nearly 30% of mobile phone users have a smartphone. If you read tech blogs all day you might think that number is a bit low, but it shows how much growth the mobile web still has to go.

Survey participants that plan on upgrading to a smartphone in the next year clearly preferred either iOS or Android devices. Either way it's great news for mobile web designers, as both have great browser support. It's still a great time to get going with mobile web design.