Comments on: Designing for Mobile Users http://www.theusabilityblog.com/usability-tips/17-designing-for-mobile-users/ The highlights and lowlights of usability Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:27:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: David Hamill http://www.theusabilityblog.com/usability-tips/17-designing-for-mobile-users/#comment-68 David Hamill Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:27:12 +0000 http://www.theusabilityblog.com/?p=17#comment-68 I don't really agree with your 'Focus on information' advice. You should always focus on tasks when creating a website. This advice does not change from device to device. However the device that is being used, may allow you to prioritise some tasks over others. Because the context of use is likely to be different. This is what then puts into to question point 6. People tend to use a phone to access the internet because they are not at a computer. I'm not sure there is a great need to optimise every task for mobile use. Doing so will just clutter the important tasks that people using phones want to do. The Right Move mobile site is a perfect example on focussing on the appropriate context of use. http://mobile.rightmove.co.uk/. Incidentally it focusses on one primary task. I don’t really agree with your ‘Focus on information’ advice. You should always focus on tasks when creating a website. This advice does not change from device to device. However the device that is being used, may allow you to prioritise some tasks over others. Because the context of use is likely to be different.

This is what then puts into to question point 6. People tend to use a phone to access the internet because they are not at a computer. I’m not sure there is a great need to optimise every task for mobile use. Doing so will just clutter the important tasks that people using phones want to do.

The Right Move mobile site is a perfect example on focussing on the appropriate context of use. http://mobile.rightmove.co.uk/. Incidentally it focusses on one primary task.

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