Mobile Awesomeness Blog

We found this excellent article with 25 tips for designing your next mobile site: http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/mobile-web-mastery-25-tips-on-designing-for-mobile-devices/

Great article from Matthew Might about creating a native-looking iOS application ... visit site.

The team that brought us the HTML5 boilerplate has now released a mobile version. It's full of best-practices and recommended techniques. Download it today!

Jakob Nielsen touches on some common usability issues for mobile users and why it's so difficult to read on these devices. Read article.

Looking for some mobile UI inspiration? A new site called Mobile UI Patterns (http://mobile-patterns.com) has a fantastic collection of common mobile UI elements. Check it out!

Last week Mobify published 2010 Q4 mobile data, which outlines some noticeable mobile web trends. The good thing about their data is that it's all based on mobile web users, not just mobile phone users. The bad thing is that Mobify represents a small segment of traffic in the grand scheme. Still, it's interesting to see iOS still dominating 48-60% of web traffic. 

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DHTMLX Touch is a new mobile javascript framework based on the DHTMLX desktop javascript library. The suite has free and commercial licenses depending on how it's used. It's comparable to previously-covered Sencha Touch. Both have a desktop browser library, great documentation, robust UI components and are meant for web applications. Frameworks like these are what's truly exciting about the potential of web apps on mobile webkit-based browsers.

A List Apart just published a well done article summarizing the current state of smartphone web browsers. It's definitely worth reading and referring back to when doing your browser testing.

Early this month, Nielsen released some interesting research about the US smartphone market. Their survey shows that nearly 30% of mobile phone users have a smartphone. If you read tech blogs all day you might think that number is a bit low, but it shows how much growth the mobile web still has to go. 

Survey participants that plan on upgrading to a smartphone in the next year clearly preferred either iOS or Android devices. Either way it's great news for mobile web designers, as both have great browser support. It's still a great time to get going with mobile web design.