PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.
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PechaKucha is the democratic form of the TED conference. It brings the best ideas out into the public. PechaKucha is “by design” set up to multiply, proliferate, inspire, in short, change the planet long term more than any other current idea. It brings us back together, out of our air-conditioned isolation, alone with our fancy smart phone, back into the community where change can happen - Chris Stutzki
In a matter of seconds, thousands of lives and dreams were destroyed in Haiti. In response, the global PechaKucha family is coming together with Architecture for Humanity to lend a hand in rebuilding Haiti. Please help us spread the word about our global event in February: 20 images, 20 seconds, 200 cities, 2,000 presentations, 200,000 people.
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Following on from the iPhone User Interface we created, we are also in the process of creating the landing page for the app.
iPhone User Interface Design of Clarus, a pet management application.
The owner of Parent Juice was referred to us to complete the total re-design of parentjuice.com.
The heart and soul of our business, functional, accessible yet visually stunning is our aim for every single website we complete. Where a hosting service is needed, we have our own super-fast server to exclusively host only our clients websites.
On the iPhone, an effective user interface is a huge part of your users' experience. Without good design, your app will fall under the radar. We know Apple's Human Interface Guidelines inside-out, and will create the distinctive look and feel of your app - all in a tiny 320 x 480 pixel area.
Perhaps you already have an existing project that needs a beautiful design. User Interface design of iPhone apps, Website Face-lifts, and Website Apps are part of our core business. Get in touch to have a quick chat about how superior user interface design can benefit you.
“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”
Because of its beautiful nature, mathematics has been a part of art and architectural design for ages. But it has not been exploited much for website design. This is probably because many of us regard mathematics as being antithetical to creativity. On the contrary, mathematics can be a tool to produce creative designs. That said, you don't have to rely on math for every design. The point is that you should regard it as your friend, not a foe. For illustrative purposes, we created a couple of web designs that present mathematical principles discussed in this article. We are also giving away a couple of PSDs that you can use right away in your next design.
In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology. While this information is important, I'm sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes.
Well, that's where Part 3 comes in. Here we'll be talking about methods for creating your own color schemes, from scratch. We'll cover the traditional color scheme patterns (monochrome, analogous, complementary, etc.) as well as how to create custom schemes that aren't based strictly on any one pattern. By the end of this article, you'll have the tools and skills to start creating beautiful color palettes for your own design projects. The best way to improve your skills is to practice, so why not set yourself a goal of creating a new color scheme every day.
Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.
It has 2 different widget areas and threaded comments, and also supports paged comments and has 2 different page templates for advanced usage. The control of images is done from the post page. The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. You may modify the theme as you wish. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.
From now on Smashing Magazine's front page features not only magazine's posts, but also manually selected articles from the members of our brand new Smashing Network. This page is updated several times per day, so it is worth checking more often.
Last year, more than 63 million people in the United States accessed the Internet from a mobile device. It’s forecast that by 2013 there will be more than 1.7 billion mobile Internet users worldwide. With those kinds of numbers, it’s imperative that web designers and developers learn optimal development and ...
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Isn’t working at home great? That’s why so many of us are either already doing it, or dreaming about doing it. We know it’s just the thing for creative types who don’t like structure and hierarchy. Working at home has its perks. However, working at home also brings many temptations ...
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Some have a passion for web design; others consider it a mere task! This article is for those who consider web design more than just a task, in fact, it is meant for those who always have a passion to create something new! Bringing together elements of design and technicality ...
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Last week we published a tutorial for designing a basic corporate website layout in Photoshop, and in this tutorial we will walk through the process of coding that design in HTML and CSS. Here is a look at the design that we will be coding (click the ...
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This is it. You’ve worked many long, hard hours developing your Pen tool skills in Illustrator to the point you could probably add “Pen Tool Ninja” to your business card. You’ve learned so much about graphic design that your head is bigger than Rush Limbaugh’s waistline. You know so much ...
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Everyone, at some point in their lives would have had to, at the very least, create a quick map or a simple data pie chart of some sort. Welcome to the fascinating world of infographics!Visuals that are used to represent, instruct, or to disseminate information, data, and knowledge are called ...
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In case you’ve missed it, I recently released a free vector set of Social Media Icons at IconDock. It includes 50 icons of the most popular social media networks. The icons are available at 32px and 16px in EPS, PNG, and GIF format. Feel free to use it in your ...
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Graphs and charts are used to simplify complex data and make it easy to read and understand. So it really wouldn’t make sense if it was difficult to integrate a graph into a website. Thanks to Javascript and a bunch of talented developers, we have at our disposal solutions for ...
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The *business* of software
Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot and the excellent Onstartups.com blog gave this fascinating presentation at Business of Software 2008. Some of the highlights include:
Your idea can suck. Just get started.
Not having cash breeds good behaviour.
The 12 flaming hoops of venture capital.
Write a blog, not a business plan.
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Fitznik. A hard Sokoban-ish Puzzle game
Drippy. A blobby tetris game
Darwin the monkey. One for the kids
Freebies
Teeny Tiny Ninja. 48 hour game, Lemmings, Ninja style
Gribbly War. Don't really know how to describe it.
BoomShakalaka. A flash puzzle game.
class e id para aplicar estilos a determinados elementos.span e div e sua vital importância para CSS.margin e padding.float para 'flutuar' um elemento à esquerda ou à direita. layers para sobrepor elementos.The AIR 2 beta went live on Adobe Labs yesterday, and it includes support for MSAA to allow assistive technologies on the Windows platform to access Flash-based content within AIR applications.
We are still doing testing and addressing issues, but encourage you to try it out. The beta runtime installer is available at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/.
For any readers who aren't familiar with AIR, what you are installing is not a developer tool but the runtime that is used to run AIR applications that developers create. There are many applications that are developed as AIR applications and this is underlying technology that allows those applications to be displayed on your system. So what does the addition of accessibility support mean for users with disabilities? For blind or low-vision users, this means that content that is developed with accessibility in mind will be able to interact with the applications using assistive technologies that they already use.
Will all AIR applications now be accessible? No, no more than all HTML websites or all C++ or Java applications are - but what this does mean is that developers now have the capability to address accessibility in their applications. With previous versions of AIR a developer could ignore accessibility for blind and some low-vision users because the information wouldn't reach the assistive technologies, but now with AIR 2 it does.
My colleague Daniel Koestler published a post on AIR accessibility yesterday, and he includes a link to an application that he developed with accessibility in mind that you can download and try.
Please give AIR 2 a try and let us know about your experiences.
As the leader of Adobe's accessibility team, I am proud of the commitments Adobe has made to the mission of accessibility and needs of individuals with disabilities. Adobe produces innovative software that enables the development of content that is visually rich and highly interactive, and as a result rendering that content in a productive way for people with visual disabilities can be a challenge - one we take seriously.
Adobe has worked on accessibility standards committees in the U.S. and internationally, including: the W3C's WCAG 2.0, ATAG 2.0, Timed Text/DFXP, HTML5, and Protocols and Formats working groups; the U.S. Access Board's TEITAC subcommittee; and the PDF Universal Accessibility work group at AIIM. Two important goals of our participation are to help ensure that accessibility standards are effective at meeting the needs of those with disabilities and to promote technological neutrality. From an accessibility perspective, we believe that developers should be able to use any technology as long as they are able to deliver content that meets accessibility standards and end-user needs.
Adobe Flash and PDF (which is now an ISO standard - ISO 32000-1) both provide support for accessibility, but it is important for authors and developers to learn best practices and understand user needs in order to deliver results that take advantage of the unique capabilities of the formats and that allow all users to access the information and functionality. Authors sometimes will make a trade-off between producing a visually interesting application in a timely fashion and adhering to accessibility requirements. Other times, accessibility gets left to be dealt with at the end of a project that has a firm end-date and when other features take longer than expected, accessibility or other items fall off the schedule. Government agencies don't get to make these trade-offs as they are bound by law to make their services accessible, but commercial entities don't have the same requirements and often overlook the needs of people with disabilities when creating web experiences and documents.
Despite our best intentions, Adobe overlooked the needs of people with disabilities in our recently-launched Open Government web site, which failed to meet certain accessibility best practices. Some customers have contacted us and a few bloggers pointed out the issues and we are working to improve the Open Government site. We apologize to everyone who attempted to access the site and was unable to do so. With the benefit now of seeing the site in its present state rather than the initially-planned more dynamic and interactive version, the team is recreating the site using a combination of HTML and Flash. Several improvements to the current Flash-based site have been addressed already. My hope for this post and the intention of the Open Government site is to help other developers learn from this example, and improve their own development practices of visually rich web sites for access by all users.
Whether users need to use assistive technologies such as screen readers or magnifiers, operate their computer with the keyboard alone, view larger text sizes, view captions or subtitles for audio information, or utilize many other accessibility features, these features already exist in Adobe products. And while these are not perfect in all products yet, we are dedicated to enabling our tools to handle accessibility in robust and reliable ways.
If you are interested in learning more about accessibility in Adobe products, I'm providing some interesting links below. As always, we value the feedback of our customers and end users, so let us know your thoughts.
For more information about PDF accessibility:
For more information about Flash accessibility:
PDF and Flash accessibility training resources:
Adobe accessibility compliance statements:
There is a lot of interest in accessibility of ebooks in Adobe Digital Editions and Bill McCoy on the Adobe Content Server and Digital Editions team posted about the current and future state of affairs for accessibility in Digital Editions on his blog. It's worth a look.
Adobe Systems is hosting an online seminar on accessibility in InDesign on Tuesday October 20 at 2pm EST. Come learn:
Sign up at http://www.adobegovernmentevents.com/AccessibleContentWorkflow/invite.html
The session will be available for viewing later, and it will be captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing users.
I spoke at the RNIB's Techshare conference in London last week. The topic was Rich Internet Applications with Flash, Flex, and AIR. The talk was geared to a tech-savvy consumer audience, so was light on coding specifics but highlights the key high-level messages about Flash, Flex, and AIR. If you are interested, take a few minutes to view the presentation and let me know if you have comments.
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プロパティやセレクタなどのリファレンスに加え、実践的なレイアウト講座やTips・コラムなど、それとCSS3に関してもちょこちょこ書いてます。
詳しい説明や、初めて訪れた方は「サイト説明」を読んで頂ければと思います。
CSSの基本では、CSSの適用方法や記述方法、コメントの書き方、ショートハンド、優先順位（個別性）、識別子で扱える文字、ボックスモデルなどに関して扱っています。
CSS2.1プロパティリファレンスです。CSS3に関しても主要なものから徐々に追加予定。
どんなプロパティが有ったか調べたり、値を確認したりするのに使える感じです。
CSS2.1までのセレクタ一覧とCSS3セレクタ一覧です。
Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8が対象ブラウザになっている限り実用出来るセレクタは限られますが、何気に使う機会は有るので今の段階で覚えても損は有りません。
仕様を覚えることは非常に重要ですが、実際にコーディングするには、バグを知らなければ思うように組めません。
なので、一番厄介な、Internet Explorer 6, 7のバグをメインに、その他のブラウザのバグも扱ってます。
基本的な固定幅の2カラムレイアウトから、多少装飾のある2カラムレイアウト、リキッドレイアウト、更にはかなり実践的な（実用的な）サンプルを使ったレイアウト講座なんかもあります。
様々なCSSテクニックやコラム、Tipsを扱っています。
実用的なTipsから、知識として持っていると何処かで役立つかもしれない事など色々書いています。
レイアウト講座やテク・Tipsで使用したサンプルのダウンロードや、新規でサイトを制作するのに使える一式など、様々なサンプル、テンプレートがダウンロードできます。
おすすめの書籍やサイトの紹介です。
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it´s january 2010 and we did (but not reallly) a new trockenklar session for audioasyl.net. this time from iUx. floating ambient! very nice. have fun!
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2010.01 | trockenklarwe will take part of some events at the CYNETART 2009 festival.
together with jacob korn we will extend our project for the automatic clubbing series. people, visited us last year know what we mean… for the others… just come to see it. we hope you will enjoy. the date is friday at midnight (november 27th). but don´t miss jacob´s harmony universe one day before on thursday. a new approach in the playground of interactive spaces…
next is saturday. the CYNETART festival presents scion together with paul st. hilaire. ds.xorg will visualize this event. it will be different… but nice…. open your calendar at make a big cross for saturday in november 28th, 2009. this evening features also a monolake sorround performance! so. be fast. and don´t forget.
find detailed information about festival the CYNETART homepage! we reccommend to save your ticket. if you plan to visit the whole first weekend, then you can buy a combi-ticket to save some money. visit ticke2day to buy.
2009.11 | automatique clubbingthis is… the mix is taken from the underground quality tape club session cd and mixed by nina kravitz from moscow.
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5 hours of music, randomly played by ds-x.org [iUx, paris, ingolf]. from dubby beats over electronica to techno and back to spacepop with the wonderful track “i fall to pieces” by the hasbeens. have fun and enjoy. if you want to download this mix check our rss feed.
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2009.10 | audionow it´s official. the next microscope session is coming. this time with a special guest and a small installation from us.
Dopplereffekt live (Dataphysix, Rephlex, Clone, Gigolo)
dj-set by credit00 (idealfun/robodance)
DS-X.org :: consumed
the date is october 9th, 2009 in the festspielhaus hellerau/dresden. only a limited ammount of tickets are availible. so hurry to buy one, or two at the official pre-sale stations…
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Article ID: 306759 - Last Review: December 1, 2007 - Revision: 2.5 How to change the listening port for Remote DesktopThis article was previously published under Q306759 INTRODUCTION This article describes how to change the port that Remote Desktop listens on. Note The Remote Desktop Connection Client for the Mac supports only port 3389. 3389 is the default port. MORE INFORMATIONYou can use the Remote Desktop feature in Microsoft Windows XP Professional to connect to your computer from another remote computer. Warning The Remote Assistance feature in Microsoft Windows XP may not work correctly if you change the listening port. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 307711
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How do I make my Facebook group or fan page interesting?I run a Facebook group and am considering switching it to a Facebook fan page, but I don't think it'll address my basic problem: how do I make a Facebook group or fan page interesting and lively to my online community? Do I need to have giveaways? Spend an hour each day making new postings? What's the secret, Dave? [This is not only a great question, but a fundamental one for anyone creating or maintaining an online community. I know, because I have the Ask Dave Taylor Fan Page on Facebook. As a result, rather than answer it myself, I asked my friend Patrick O'Keefe, author of the book Managing Online Forums, to tackle your query. Here's his splendid, thoughtful answer... ] Facebook Groups and Fan Pages are a sort of repackaging or continuation of something we've already been doing in other online community spaces. So, when thinking about this question, it can be helpful to consider how you might keep an online forum or chat room active. After all, the Wall on your group is similar to what some would call a shoutbox and your Discussions tab is, more or less, a forum. When it comes to keeping them interesting, there are a lot of different directions you can go in, limited by your own creativity. With that said, here are some ideas that came to mind when pondering your question: Participate and Make it Routine Your participation in your group has a direct impact on how interesting it is. You can't expect to set a group up and then just let people talk amongst themselves indefinitely. That creates a host of issues. For one, there is less overall activity. If your group is based around your company, product, brand, personality or something along those lines, having no interaction with you can lead to participants feeling unappreciated. Plus, there is always the danger of something inappropriate being posted that you won't have removed because you weren't there. Instead, you should be a constant presence on the page, posting messages, responding to others and encouraging and monitoring discussion. Make it a regular thing, a routine; like checking your e-mail or reading your favorite blog. Ask Questions A simple way of generating interest is to ask questions. Put a call to action in your messages and the things that you share, asking for the reader to do something, even if it is as simple as asking them for their thoughts. Provide a prompt. When people answer, thank them for their replies. Host Events on Your Page Due to the live, fresh nature of Facebook, it can be used as a platform for scheduled events, aimed at drawing a bunch of people to your page at a given time. Here are some examples: If you're a company that creates a product with constant technical support requests, you could host a question-a-thon. Encourage people to ask questions of your product or company at a specific time with the promise that company executives, technicians, etc. are on hand to answer them as soon as they're posted. You can invite an expert or special guest of interest in the subject of your group and have them answer questions on your page for a set period of time. If you're a sports group, you could have a writer from ESPN or an athlete. If you're group is about growing your business online, you could invite Dave Taylor. If it's about architecture, you could host a noted architect. You could play a game where you ask people to post pictures of given objects (authenticated in some way) in real time and the people who complete all of the challenges (or something along those lines) are all entered into a giveaway for a cool prize. Whatever your niche, you can come up with an event to host that will resonate with your audience. Highlight the Contributions of Others Everyone wants to feel wanted. Part of keeping it interesting is embracing the people you do have now and appreciating them. Not only that, but when they do great stuff, share it with everyone. Showcase cool contributions made by group members and draw attention to them. This encourages further contribution by not only the person highlighted, but by others who would like to be highlighted. It's a great way to reward people for doing great things. Moderate and Kick Out the Cancers Watch out for people who disrupt or damage the environment that you want on your page. Bullies and jerks can intimidate others and can change the tone of your page and scare people away. Don't be afraid to cut them off, in order to maintain your focus and ensure that your targeted participants are comfortable. Go Beyond Just Text Text is the backbone of most every Facebook group in existence, but other content can provide a good change of pace - visually and otherwise. Post polls and share photos and videos. If this is a company page, post photos of your people in action, of your office, of events. If your page is about a leisure activity, post pictures of you engaging in it and encourage others to do the same. One way to encourage photos is to have themes. If you were a martial arts page, you could have a theme of everyone posting a picture of themselves in their stance, or of them doing a certain kick or wearing their uniform. Integrate Your Other Online Presences Does your company or organization create a lot of content online? Or maybe just you as an individual: do you create content relevant to your group? Maybe you have a blog, a YouTube channel, maybe you write tutorials or articles. There's no reason that these outlets should not be at least partially integrated into your group. Every blog post you make or YouTube video you upload, that is related to your group, is potentially a discussion topic that can be brought up. If you have a directly relevant publication that you maintain, don't hesitate to feed it directly into your group. Notice I said directly relevant: be careful of feeding anything and everything. It must be focused on what your group is about. Take it Easy with Apps, Boxes, etc. Facebook apps (applications) are cool, no doubt. But, they can be a problem when they take the focus away from the area where you want people to actually participate. In general, before adding any additional elements, apps, tabs or boxes to your group, you should consider how it really adds to what you have right now and what you really want to accomplish. For example, would you prefer a page with 7 different apps and tabs, all of which have little or no activity, or would you rather have one Wall that has moderate activity? It's really about showcasing what you do have, which makes you more attractive to potential participants. Don't spread yourself too thin. Focus on doing one or two things really well; and then you can expand off of that. Run Offline Events, If You Can I love the internet. But, I also love meeting people in person. Meeting people in person allows you to grow relationships so much more quickly. I've been able to meet Dave a couple of times at conferences and I'm glad I did. Honestly, if I hadn't met him in person, I'm not sure I'd be writing this right now. The point is this: offline makes online better. Online makes offline better, too. They enhance each other. If you grow group relationships offline, they'll be stronger online. So, if you're community is based around a certain area - or if there are a bunch of group members near you - hold a meet-up. Take pictures and video of the meet up and post them on your group (more content!). If you're page is about a company or a product, invite people to your headquarters or a local restaurant or establishment for some face to face time. You can even use this time to let people try out new products, to get their feedback and to make sure they feel like an insider and a person who is a part of your community. This can only lead to good things for your Facebook group and, more importantly, your online presence. Go Deeper Finally, I want to tell you to go deeper, if you have the activity to warrant it, in two senses. The first sense is Facebook itself. The Wall is usually a place for shorter comments, not longer posts, like you might see on online forums. On Facebook, you can add a Discussions tab, though I don't believe it is as intuitive as the established and well known format of forums. That brings me to the second sense: don't stop at just Facebook. Look beyond, to other platforms, to your own structured community on your own website. Having people on your own site allows you to do more with them and can allow you to have even more meaningful relationships. This also allows you to have a more interesting Facebook group because you can share content between your on-site community and your Facebook group and use your group as a means of promoting your website-based community. This isn't right for everyone. For some, it's best to stick with a Facebook group or similar. But, for many others, stepping beyond just Facebook will allow you to benefit even more. Patrick O'Keefe is the founder of the iFroggy Network and the author of the book "Managing Online Forums." He blogs about community management at ManagingCommunities.com.
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If there’s anything web designers learned from the past year, it’s that mobile web usage will continue to soar.
Thanks to smartphones and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook that promote on-the-go interaction with web applications, the amount of people using mobile devices to access the web has grown exponentially.
There are over 4.5 billion mobile phones in usage today and it’s estimated that by the end of this year, over 1 billion users will be accessing the web via a mobile device.
While these numbers are overwhelming, the mobile web experience is yet to live up to its full potential as compared to the traditional web experience. Web developers and designers need to understand practical techniques that will enhance the mobile web browsing experience.
Putting careful consideration into the design of a mobile web application must be a paramount activity that we need to integrate into our workflows. Designing for the mobile web is not the same as designing for the traditional web, and though as an industry we’re just learning as we go, we have to learn to adapt quickly to these new demands.
Let’s take a quick look at some concepts to keep in mind when designing for the mobile web.
New York Public Library on a mobile device.
Content on the mobile web must be user-focused just like in traditional web design. However, presenting content with utmost consideration and forethought is all the more critical to the mobile web experience because of the smaller screens and internet connectivity concerns that aren’t issues to the traditional desktop web-browsing environment.
If you’re working on an existing site’s mobile web interface, only the essential elements should be brought over to the mobile web. Mobile users don’t want to have to look for information or scroll through multiple pages to find what they are looking; they want their needs to be met quickly.
Get into your users’ head, figure out what they’d be most interested in and give them just that (and nothing more).
Today’s smartphones are pretty capable of displaying multimedia content. And that’s a good thing.
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You can watch a YouTube video while riding on the train or view photos of your drunken escapades last night that your friend posted on Facebook.
On the other hand, keeping rich multimedia to the barest minimum or providing alternatives to users that can’t access multimedia content is essential because of internet connectivity and technology limitations that our mobile web infrastructures are still working on to improve.
Not everyone uses an iPhone that has a built-in web browser, and many mobile web users have metered mobile internet connections that can cost them an arm and a leg when viewing these hefty rich media assets.
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The great part about the mobile web is its simplicity. While it’s an advantage for web designers, its significance cannot be ignored. In the mobile web design context, I’d like to say that simplicity equates to usability. Keep the design clutter-free and as lightweight as possible.
Maximize the screen real estate. Mobile web users will be able to get more out of a simple and uncluttered interface that they can navigate through.
Also, keep in mind that many mobile web users don’t have access to the traditional keyboard and mouse, so a simple design is critical in o
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