Getting really close to the way I want to move photos between devices
just a nice design
It's More Than Fear
I would amend this to say, clients need to get over their fear of mobile marketing, while agencies need to get used to starting their conceptual thinking on mobile opportunities instead of porting from the desktop.
Propellerhead’s really slick interface makes a pretty complex task seem very approachable
Nice to see AR used for utility instead of entertainment (and actually work!)
A lot of very nice touches in this app, particularly some of the gesture based controls
….wait: Who needs the Web?
If you ignore the apocalyptic language about corporations and manipulation (yawn), you get the beginning of a picture where the generic browser web is being left behind by the curated focal web (apps). The fun thing to think about here is, for years, everyone in mobile has assumed apps were a stop on the way back to the normal, generic browser web. Now though, with no sign of apps abating, you have to start to wonder if we have been watching the permanent fragmentation of browsers away from different flavors of generic, all purpose tools and towards a set of company, purpose and information specific tools (apps).
If this happens, as designers, we only have ourselves to blame. The get-Anything-All-The-Time nature of most web designs always favored showing off company org charts at the expense of getting users the information or tools they actually wanted. Now users have the option for streamlined, pointed tools that do only what they want…why would they use anything else?
Half of US commuters would use their mobile phone for transit payments
Presumably the other half have never had their credit card rejected by an MTA vending machine
(Source: nfcworld.com)
“Mobile is our second brain”
A good talk about what we use our phones for by Google.
I read this and kind of wonder how much of the consumer preference for apps over mobile web is related to the loading / perceived speed phenomenon. If this can be applied to other contexts, any experience that feels like instant-on is going to have a pronounced advantage over one that needs to load both content and interface elements.
