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4 June 2009 Mobile Design UK Symbian? What’s That? A view from the States

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4 June 2009

Mobile Design UK

Symbian? What’s That?A view from the States

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We’re getting there

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We love our Blackberries

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Because we like our Email

Keyboard

Exchange, BIS

One inbox

Special plans

Email ecosystem

Easy setup

2G fine

What browser?

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Blackberries are for messaging

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Mobile Internet is emerging

High Internet use for iPhone

but ...

30% carry other phone

“I want that www phone”

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Internet vs Telco ThinkingA framework for understanding company behaviors

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Internet thinking

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Internet thinking

Assumed best case

Dream of the future

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Internet thinking

Second pass (pre-iPhone)

One size fits all

Old devices irrelevant

It’s the phones’ fault

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Internet thinking

Third pass

... and iPhone + Android version

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Internet thinking misses

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Telco thinking

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Telco thinking

Device-specific design

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Telco thinking

Customization

Feature phones

Ubiquitous support

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Telco thinking

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Page “tweaks”

Graceful degradation

One or more versions (of

page, sub-site, or site)

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Page “tweaks”

Access keys - DTMF only

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Page “tweaks”

Touch - add padding

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Dynamic number of results

Page “tweaks”

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Page “tweaks”

Graceful degradation

One or more versions (of

page, sub-site, or site)

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1)Skyfire

2)Good Webkit, Opera Mobile, Fennec

3)Webkit, Opera Mobile

4)Bolt, Opera Mini

5)Openwave, NetFront, AU

6)Blackberry, Pocket IE, other XHTML, many older

7)WML23

One or more versions (of

page, sub-site, or site)

Hybrid thinking (web)

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168x286:1 Med Ad Unit

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7:19 PM

http://www.weather.com

216x366:1 Large Ad Unit

216x366:1 Large Ad Unit

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One or more versions (of

page, sub-site, or site)

Hybrid thinking (web)

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One or more versions (of

page, sub-site, or site)

Hybrid thinking (web)

but probably one IA

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Page “tweaks”

Graceful degradation

One or more versions (of

page, sub-site, or site)

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Graceful degradation

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Page “tweaks”

Graceful degradation

One or more versions (of

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Hybrid thinking (web)

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Product designer, product strategist, blogger

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Barbara Ballard