Mobile

IBM just released the Mobile Portal Experience code to the Greenhouse product catalog. This is great because as IBM puts it, “mobile is exploding” and nearly everyone wants to extend their portals to the mobile devices. This release supports the major players supporting Webkit. Here is a snippet from the product description: The Portal Mobile […]

I attended Barcamp Tampa Bay 2011 this past Saturday. Among many excellent sessions, two on user experience and design generated great interest. Justin Davis presented “5 User Experience Basics Everyone Should Know” to an overflowing room: People expect online interactions to follow social rules. Successful interactions provide appropriate feedback and engagement with a appropriately conversational tone.  (A […]

Chris Woodruff Yammered about a podcast where they debate the merits and intricacies of mobile web vs native app development.  The guest speaker is Chris Love who seems to know a thing or two about mobile, html5, web development etc.  It’s worth a listen. About This Episode In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down […]

Many of us are familiar with our employer not supporting work functions such as email on our personally owned smart phones. I purchased my first smart phone, a Palm device, in 2005. It wasn’t until 2009 that I worked for a company that offered to open up email security to be enabled on my personally […]

I recently blogged about new mobile features in the Dojo toolkit, so I thought I would give equal time to JQuery.  JQuery Mobile has recently release Beta 2 of the toolkit and it includes lots of great features. The mobile toolkit has various levels of support for a variety of devices.  JQuery maintains an A-B-C […]

IBM DeveloperWorks recently published an article by Joe Lennon titled Get started with Dojo Mobile 1.7, in which he does a good job of explaining the new mobile features in Dojo 1.7.   Using Dojo is a great way to develop once for multiple browser support;  the Mobile features extend this to iOS, Android and […]

As Perry Hoekstra pointed out in his post ‘Forget the Apple Tax, how about an Android Discount?’ the tablet market is currently dominated by the Apple iPad, despite several Android competitors such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab or the Motorola Xoom. Perry commented on the current state of tablet competition: In Marketing 101, when you have […]

In our previous posts we discussed “gamification” and how it can be used to create patient experiences that increase adherance to medical protocol. We also discussed the use of Web 2.0 technologies that bring patients and physicians together to make improvements to that medical protocol. Fortunately, more and more healthcare organizations are investing in healthcare […]

No, this won’t be a post about what’s better, Android or iOS.  Instead, I was looking at the site visual.ly and came across some cool information about the status of the mobile market.  Hunch.com collects user feedback and created this great looking chart detailing lots of statistics.  I’ve reproduced the chart below, or you can […]

Your iPhone native application has been extremely successful and of course, customers have been asking when a similar Android native application will be available.  So, you assign the design of the Android application to your user interface design person who in turn dusts off the iPhone wireframe documents.  But wait, where does your user interface […]

In a post last week I outlined the trend of using “gamification” and mobile technology to solve real-world health problems. In summary, gamification is the practice of using gameplay mechanics in non-game applications, such as health apps that engage patients and assist them in managing chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Gamification is becoming […]

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave for Mobile Collaboration, which does a very good job of highlighting who the leaders are in this market.  The image below shows the Forrester Wave; you can access the full report at forrester.com. What is interesting is that the report includes only those companies that have native applications […]