Chapter 10 Mobile:
It’s not just a city in Alabama anymore
In chapter 10 it goes over designing for mobile devices. He
also did talk about how we can do so much with are phones and having the
internet with use at all times gives use the opportunity to find information
anywhere we are. So when designing for mobile we are working with a much
smaller screen then we are used to when we are designing for a desktop. One has
to try and fit so much information on such a tiny screen. We want the mobile
version to match the desktop version and that is just impossible. That’s why
when we make a mobile design it needs to have what is important to that site at
the time. In a mobile version we lose a lot of fetchers that we have in a
desktop version. One of them is the hover aspect over a link. So in a mobile
design we just have to assume that everything is clickable. Sometimes some of
the links are not as clear as they would be in a desktop version. Those same
links need to have some kind of dead giveaway that they are link and not just
more content on the site.
We need to give the user an option of using the mobile
version or the desktop version on their phone. Sometimes the user needs to find
more information or something that is not in the mobile version of the site
that the desktop version will have. I know I have.
Links to related information for Chapter 10
Ten best practices for designing mobile websites
Mobile Web Mastery: 25 Tips on Designing for Mobile Devices
Mobile Responsive Design 101
10 Rules Of Thumb to
Design a Successful Mobile-Friendly Website
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