Mobile Sites and Usability: An unlocked phenomena
Everyone knows how iPod/iPhone revolutionized the user experiences of handheld devices. Its a device more usable than anything before of its kind Lets hold our thoughts here, think for sometime and figure out the awesomeness behind this great user-experience. The two very basic points their UI revolved around were: 1. Make the Action-Points in the UI easily reachable. Since iPod was a touchscreen device, they used big sized buttons to achieve this, and a highly calibrated keyboard made typing a smoothie. Those big buttons really made accessing those action points easily. You never feel like using a stylus with iPod/iPhone, thats ease of access. 2. Minimal Scrolling: Use multiple screens instead of one big list, go deeper levels or flip that screen but stay on a single page. iPod had reasonably categorized menus at as many places as possible and the very intuitive "back" buttons sure showed the way out to the main application. If you look closely at one of those apps you love