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Friday, May 05, 2006

The "phonetop"


Very nice high level video illustrating some of the problems with mobile usability on the ZDNet whiteboard.

I really like this whiteboard video format as a way to get a message across clearly. In this case I don't think the proposed solution from Peter Baldwin, CEO of MSX is necessary the answer. He proposes putting everything on the "phonetop".
Again this analogy between desktop and phonetop illustrates the classic misconception IMHO.


The "tiny screen" on mobiles is not analogous to a PC desktop as the user interaction is totally different. Don't try and shoehorn PC type GUI into this tiny screen but instead use a more revolutionary approach of oneclick browsing as offered by Tribes.

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