Holy Handheld!
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who was disappointed that Cardinal Ratzinger didn’t honor the memory of the previous two popes named John Paul by calling himself Pope George Ringo, but his endorsement of the mobile web is pretty impressive.
Just as impressive to me is this NY Times article on web design and the iPhone. If you’ve ever had to deal with help desk issues that were the result of a page design done by an artist with a humongous monitor (like a customer saying “I can’t see the whole page and it won’t let me scroll”) or if you just find the look of overly busy web pages to be tedious and un-user-friendly, you may enjoy this.
Gary Brooks:
The NY Times article about web design and the iPhone for me brought home the idea that maybe less clutter on web sites overall would be a good thing (not just for when they are redesigned to display on an iPhone). As the article states: “By having fewer items to scan for on a small display, users can find what they want more quickly and can be more confident that they have made the right choice”. I think that could be true across the board in web design!
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 am