Let's admit I am not likely to do anything good but every two months. I will use the release of my next UXmatters column every two months or so to publish one.
Beyond Airplane Mode UXmatters, 25 April 2016
I'll try to actually post things here as I read them, instead of just adding to the backlog.
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/16/04/19/1127221/americans-abandoning-wired-home-internet-shows-study Get the original story, comment. Abandoning home internet at all for mobile!!!
In Mexico, No One's Catching Android for Mobile Ad Impressions Even if you know that globally 85% of people carry Android, or that in the US iOS is flat so Android is growing well past it (about 55% to 45%) how many things still launch on iOS first, or only? And the excuse is that iOS is more worth it. Someone is always trotting out some stat about iOS having more clicks, more responses, more revenue spent, etc. But two problems: One, fanboys. This is all cherrypicked data, and more than once it's what we call a "lie." I mean, they misread the data and misreported, in favor of iOS. Two: The rest of the world is not the US, and there are very few iPhones in much of the world. If that skewed data is true everywhere, it's by user not device, so high end Android picks up the slack. Well, check out this report on mobile ad behavior in Mexico. Android wins, by a landslide. The lesson in Mexico is: advertise on Android. I should also say I am not an Android fan, I am a truth fan and the truth today is Android dominates, in every region, in every sector. When that changes, so will I.
http://www.google.com/design/spec/usability/accessibility.html#accessibility-principles NEAT
This is What the History of Camera Sales Looks Like with Smartphones Included Ugh, only smartphones.
http://www.peterme.com/2016/04/13/should-designers-code-fetishizes-tech-over-other-crucial-design-skills/?ref=uxdesignweekly good version of this
http://blog.invisionapp.com/mobile-ux-user-expectations/ meh. Some good bits I guess
You want futurism, me to predict what's next? How about no one typing. In, Is China Ready to Ditch Typing? Motherboard reminds us how annoying it is to type in Chinese, and reveals the (supposed) tremendous quality of a voice to text engine Baidu has. Now, talking to your phone all the time has issues, but even a 20% increase in a market like China would change everything. What would you design interfaces for if it wasn't even typing anymore, but talking?
This says all there is to say about why I design the way I do. No pixel perfect anything. Rules, and fluid design for everything.