ten years of mobile design

Tags: Design,  Podcasts
January 29, 2009 by Barbara

This month (almost over!) is my tenth year in mobile design. My first two years were spent pretty intensely, as I got to be part of launching the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. My job was terrific: not only did I work with content providers like CNN, Yahoo, Microsoft, Barnes & Noble, and The Weather Channel to build great wireless web services, but I worked with manufacturers like Denso and LG to make great handsets.

In a way, mobile design was like my previous job, speech recognition user interface design. I got to work with IBM ViaVoice and many of the issues, like speech utterance recognition, had similar user experiences as mobile issues like predictive text input.

To celebrate ten years, we’re trying out some new things. First up was making Design For Mobile be an authoritative resource for anybody interested in mobile design. It’s got the conference and the wiki, links to other great articles, design patterns, and more.

Now we’re trying our hand at podcasting. Be nice, we’re new to this. This episode is our first, in which I talk about key lessons learned in these ten years. Let us know what you think!

If you want to be part of future Mobile Design Podcasts, or have topic or interviewee ideas, let us know!

(We’re working on getting this up to iTunes; it should be there soon.)


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2 Comments »

  1. 0.0KB ? :)

    Comment by me — February 6, 2009 @ 1:19 pm

  2. Yup, still working out WordPress & publishing.

    Comment by Barbara — February 6, 2009 @ 1:28 pm

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