Mobile

In my spare time, I am an adjunct faculty member for an online university and teach a class each semester.  This week the topic was IT innovation and one of my learners was using as their example, the phenomenon of mobile and ‘Bring Your Own Device’. The learner supported their argument that BYOD was a […]

A mobile colleague pointed out a blog post that really hit home based on some recent estimating work I had done.  If a client comes to you and asks for a web-based application that satisfies some business need, you discuss the high-level requirements, get an idea on sizing and tell the client 5 months and […]

Like many software developers, I am an avid follower of Slashdot and in fact, have it as my browser’s home page.  This morning when I started up the browser, the top story on Slashdot at the moment was the announcement that the White House’s ‘We The People’ initiative was releasing a series of API’s in […]

From the first time I picked up an iPhone, I found the interface intuitive and easy to use. The user experience fit my paradigm for how I would expect to interact with the device, even though I had not interacted with it before that day. Of course, it’s been a few years since that day […]

Last summer I worked on an Android prototype as part of a proposal to a major healthcare organization.  In addition to myself, there was a corresponding group that building the same application within iOS.  The objective was to demonstrate our capabilities in building native mobile applications on the two leading mobile platforms.  The core functionality […]

The US Electronic Medical Records System (EMS) contains a lot of information. The problem with the current system is that the data isn’t presented in a way that makes it actionable. In other words, the user interface needs a revamp to present a better user experience. Last November a design challenged was proposed by the […]

Hello eager reader! So you want to delve deeper into mobile web application development? Or maybe you are just bored and don’t have any billable work to be doing (you DON’T have any billable work to be doing, right?). In any case, I am here to help. Disclaimer: This blog post is going to include […]

John Boezeman and Tyler Tribe presented on Mobile in IBM’s Web Experience Platforms (e.g. WebSphere Portal, IBM WCM, and assorted other technologies like web analytics, forms, etc.)  it started out well but Tyler Tribe tended to drone a bit.  We all know what a site needs so get on with it. Fortunately, it got better […]

John Boezeman and Tyler Tribe presented on Mobile in IBM’s Web Experience Platforms (e.g. WebSphere Portal, IBM WCM, and assorted other technologies like web analytics, forms, etc.)  it started out well but Tyler Tribe tended to drone a bit.  We all know what a site needs so get on with it. Fortunately, it got better […]

Hot on the heels of my post on the general ease of mobile prototyping and the number of tools available on the market to quickly generate these prototypes, Alexis Piperides (CEO of Proto.io) just published an article for .Net Magazine. Alexis’s article provides a deeper dive into mobile prototyping with additional information and guidance on mobile […]

Over the course of the last four years, I’ve worked on many “mini-mobile” websites—that is to say, a client tasks us with picking a half-dozen “important” pages from the full website and building them out in mobile-friendly ways with an m.website.com URL. The crucial point here is, who is to say what is “important” to […]

Is your enterprise or department ready and prepared for the next suite and portfolio of mobile apps? Are you ready to take your department beyond the mail and calendar app on the device? You are chomping at the bit and would love to get your enterprise on-board the mobile apps train. But hold on! Do […]