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RIP Little Springs Design 14 Dec 2011 | 08:48 am
Little Springs Design is no longer in business. Some of us are working for a new mobile centric design and development shop, Amoblix, Inc., out of Kansas City. Amoblix owns the intellectual assets of ...
Mobile Context, as a Road Sign 26 Oct 2011 | 01:00 pm
14 October 2010 by Steven Hoober Context is something we talk about a lot when designing mobile applications, websites, interfaces, services and even phones. But somehow, it never gets really underst...
Facebook Is Huge. No, SMS Is. No… 26 Oct 2011 | 12:59 pm
06 October 2010 by Steven Hoober Periodically, the XKCD comic posts these giant diagrams, of real things or virtual ones. Like this, which represents the relative size and relationship of all online ...
An Equivalent Amount of Annoyance 26 Oct 2011 | 12:58 pm
06 October 2010 by Steven Hoober “ First, the point of a developer device program is to lower the activation energy necessary for a developer to put something together for your platform. Meaning, if ...
F8 and Be There – What Mobile Convergence Means 26 Oct 2011 | 12:57 pm
06 October 2010 by Steven Hoober I only took so many notes, but I /think/ it was Josh Clark who said at Design for Mobile 2010 the other week something along the lines of “the best notepad is the one...
Tailfins & Chrome 26 Oct 2011 | 12:56 pm
30 September 2010 by Steven Hoober For several years now, I’ve been enjoying mobile design as an exercise in streamlined, contextually-relevant design. Sure, it’s also pretty or emotive, but that’s f...
A Billion May Seem Like a Big Number 26 Oct 2011 | 12:54 pm
17 September 2010 by Steven Hoober “ We heard from Apple – the leader in app stores – earlier this year, that the total earned by the Apple iPhone App Store last year was under a billion dollars. A b...
Nokia’s Only Sin 26 Oct 2011 | 12:54 pm
17 September 2010 by Steven Hoober “ Nokia’s only sin seems to be that it doesn’t use an OS that the US chattering class has decided is worth chattering about. In penance it should adopt either Andro...
Context Is Important for Design and Testing 26 Oct 2011 | 12:53 pm
13 September 2010 by Barbara Ballard Everything has changed! It’s a new world! We have to re-learn everything about design! So goes the tone of the majority of articles and presentations about mobil...
Why Can’t You Use the Cool Stuff You Already Have? 26 Oct 2011 | 12:51 pm
07 September 2010 by Steven Hoober “ ...why can’t work keep up? Why are you forced to use an unfamiliar, and sometimes outdated, operating system? Why do you need a second laptop, maybe an older and ...
