Posts tagged as "Mobile Usability"

Posted by Vishal Vaidya on 18th February 2010

Research / Reports :Mobile Usability

Usability in Mobile Applications is really an important factor and a challenge in today’s scenario where there are several applications getting designed for Intranets as well as for end-users. Most of them don’t serve completely as intended to the end-user’s needs, being not designed from the mobile usability perspective.
Few days back, I was reading some [...]

Posted by Vishal Vaidya on 15th July 2009

Mobile Web Application Development Strategies

Mobile web has emerged as another area of interest for designers and developers. Mobile web has its own advantages and limitations, from both developers and end-users perspective.  Mobile Web platform has empowered organizations as well as end-users to access information / applications on the move and achieve ‘mobile productivity’.

In this series of posts about [...]

Posted by Vishal Vaidya on 12th April 2009

Mobile Web Applications : Usability Factors

(part 2 continues…)

Make sure that basic controls are always available!
Make sure you place basic controls to navigate on the site, such as “back to home, back to search results” & relevant ones.  Use contextual menus if required & only if they are assisting the user (preferably limited to 2-3 short links). In most of [...]

Posted by Vishal Vaidya on 10th April 2009

Mobile Web Applications : Usability Factors

Usability is a determining factor of success in the mobile internet application as well.

Though, it’s ‘always-with you’, ‘personalized’ way to access internet, it has several limitations. Let’s understand the limitations of the mobile web application environment:
Limitations:

Screen ‘Real Estate’ issues: resolution limitations as compared to desktops / notebooks / netbooks.
Browsers: Various browser renders site differently on [...]

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