Barbara Ballard is President and Founder of Little Springs Design. She's a wireless industry expert in product and user experience design and a developer of mobile user interface patterns. As an evangelist for improved mobile product development process, incorporating device proliferation and user experience, her experience includes phone user interfaces, Java ME, uiOne, mobile web, mobile payments, widgets, NFC, and location services. She is the author of 'Designing the Mobile User Experience' (Wiley 2007) and blogs actively at www.littlespringsdesign.com.
4 of our 6 first quarter projects have major components in Java ME. These are new applications, from companies who understand the porting issues and the complexities. This quarter is not particularly different from other quarters: we get far more work designing applications than design...
Mobile Internet sites are not as easy to use as their computer-targeted Web-site cousins, due to smaller screens, more difficult text input, and a wide variety of user situations. Despite these factors, industry experts agree that mobile access to Web sites needs to be more usable than...
The explosion of devices, markup languages, and platforms in the mobile application arena has developers pulling their hair out. Trying to have a separate application for every language is hard enough - but even then, the application still needs to be optimized for different devices. D...
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