Comments for Stephanie Rieger http://stephanierieger.com Beyond the mobile web Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Mobile users don’t do that by Chris Cullmann http://stephanierieger.com/mobile-users-dont-do-that/#comment-3395 Chris Cullmann Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:45:53 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=567#comment-3395 Designers now need to look at their client's work as platform agnostic until there is a complete understanding of the user behavior for a particular site or the content they are designing for. What a designer or web developer needs to do is think like a content strategist and put themselves in the user's seat first. Great post! Designers now need to look at their client’s work as platform agnostic until there is a complete understanding of the user behavior for a particular site or the content they are designing for. What a designer or web developer needs to do is think like a content strategist and put themselves in the user’s seat first. Great post!

]]> Comment on The ‘trouble’ with Android by Jeremy Ivy » Blog Archive » Ten signs you might want to reboot your web presence. http://stephanierieger.com/the-trouble-with-android/#comment-3390 Jeremy Ivy » Blog Archive » Ten signs you might want to reboot your web presence. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:24:37 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=290#comment-3390 [...] touched on this back in the frames and tables bit, but screen sizes are rapidly diversifying. More people use tablets and smart phones than ever, and there are whole design trends being [...] [...] touched on this back in the frames and tables bit, but screen sizes are rapidly diversifying. More people use tablets and smart phones than ever, and there are whole design trends being [...]

]]> Comment on Mobile users don’t do that by Serving the digital omnivores | Mobile in DC http://stephanierieger.com/mobile-users-dont-do-that/#comment-3343 Serving the digital omnivores | Mobile in DC Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:11:53 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=567#comment-3343 [...] Stephanie Rieger writes, however, these assumptions can get you into trouble. As your customers get more [...] [...] Stephanie Rieger writes, however, these assumptions can get you into trouble. As your customers get more [...]

]]> Comment on Mobile users don’t do that by Mobile Users Don’t Do That | MarketNet Blog http://stephanierieger.com/mobile-users-dont-do-that/#comment-3342 Mobile Users Don’t Do That | MarketNet Blog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:33:49 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=567#comment-3342 [...] user experience expert Stephanie Rieger has written a great blog post busting some of those myths about the “typical” mobile user. People don’t just [...] [...] user experience expert Stephanie Rieger has written a great blog post busting some of those myths about the “typical” mobile user. People don’t just [...]

]]> Comment on A post-pc chat over coffee by steph http://stephanierieger.com/a-post-pc-chat-over-coffee/#comment-3337 steph Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:20:19 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=596#comment-3337 Years ago we took a year off and spent quite a bit of time in APAC observing people as they used technology (that wasn't why we went there, but that's what we ended up doing!) Would *love* to do it again. :-P Years ago we took a year off and spent quite a bit of time in APAC observing people as they used technology (that wasn’t why we went there, but that’s what we ended up doing!) Would *love* to do it again. :-P

]]> Comment on A post-pc chat over coffee by Jim Newbery http://stephanierieger.com/a-post-pc-chat-over-coffee/#comment-3336 Jim Newbery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:35:09 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=596#comment-3336 Heh. This reminds me of my supervisor when I was a human factors intern many years ago. He is an ethnographer and spends much of his time immersing himself in various cultures to study the way they use technology (like your example here, but it's his whole job). He has spent weeks hanging out in cafés in various parts of Europe just to observe young people using mobile devices, but by the same token has also had to spend a little too much time sitting at the back of a number 73 bus in London, and in a canning factory in Alaska. In the ethnographic tradition, you probably should have followed this guy home and asked him if you could live in his house for six months. Heh. This reminds me of my supervisor when I was a human factors intern many years ago. He is an ethnographer and spends much of his time immersing himself in various cultures to study the way they use technology (like your example here, but it’s his whole job). He has spent weeks hanging out in cafés in various parts of Europe just to observe young people using mobile devices, but by the same token has also had to spend a little too much time sitting at the back of a number 73 bus in London, and in a canning factory in Alaska.

In the ethnographic tradition, you probably should have followed this guy home and asked him if you could live in his house for six months.

]]> Comment on Mobile users don’t do that by steph http://stephanierieger.com/mobile-users-dont-do-that/#comment-3330 steph Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:39:01 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=567#comment-3330 Thanks for the link. That really is a nice article. Hadn't run into it yet :-) Thanks for the link. That really is a nice article. Hadn’t run into it yet :-)

]]> Comment on Mobile users don’t do that by steph http://stephanierieger.com/mobile-users-dont-do-that/#comment-3329 steph Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:32:11 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=567#comment-3329 Thanks Simon, i'd appreciate some thoughts from me about this as well :-P I must admit i'm having a hard time now thinking of the web without some sort of detection (not necessarily of device but at the very least of features). I guess the very simplest of these is the media query. It won't solve all your problems but will at the very least enable you to tweak layout and legibility/design at different sizes....and works perfectly well on static sites. Going beyond that (adapting/swapping images, adapting markup within layout components and eventually content itself) certainly require more heavy lifting. None of this functionality is currently built into CMSs but it can still work with static pages (and the fact that you have a CMS likely means you have a necessary server-side layer available...even if at the moment it's only being used to manage CMS templating etc.) But I completely agree, large institutional collections of content will the trickiest to deal with. By comparison, e-commerce, tech startups and such have it quite easy. They often have large amounts of distinct, highly structured content (e.g. tweets, book titles, photo metadata) and (most likely) a well designed API. Thanks Simon, i’d appreciate some thoughts from me about this as well :-P I must admit i’m having a hard time now thinking of the web without some sort of detection (not necessarily of device but at the very least of features). I guess the very simplest of these is the media query. It won’t solve all your problems but will at the very least enable you to tweak layout and legibility/design at different sizes….and works perfectly well on static sites.

Going beyond that (adapting/swapping images, adapting markup within layout components and eventually content itself) certainly require more heavy lifting. None of this functionality is currently built into CMSs but it can still work with static pages (and the fact that you have a CMS likely means you have a necessary server-side layer available…even if at the moment it’s only being used to manage CMS templating etc.)

But I completely agree, large institutional collections of content will the trickiest to deal with. By comparison, e-commerce, tech startups and such have it quite easy. They often have large amounts of distinct, highly structured content (e.g. tweets, book titles, photo metadata) and (most likely) a well designed API.

]]> Comment on Mobile users don’t do that by Brett Jankord http://stephanierieger.com/mobile-users-dont-do-that/#comment-3328 Brett Jankord Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:04:37 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=567#comment-3328 I completely agree. Mobile does not need to mean less content/features. It just means different constraints and capabilities than what we are used to on desktops, just like tablets and smart TVs offer different constraints/capabilities. To me, good design will allow you to appeal to your users "on the go" while still allowing you provide content/features for users on mobile/tablet devices who may not actually be "on the go". Jason Rhodes has great article on this topic. http://jasonthings.com/2011/03/626/ I completely agree. Mobile does not need to mean less content/features. It just means different constraints and capabilities than what we are used to on desktops, just like tablets and smart TVs offer different constraints/capabilities. To me, good design will allow you to appeal to your users “on the go” while still allowing you provide content/features for users on mobile/tablet devices who may not actually be “on the go”. Jason Rhodes has great article on this topic. http://jasonthings.com/2011/03/626/

]]> Comment on Mobile users don’t do that by Simon Blackley http://stephanierieger.com/mobile-users-dont-do-that/#comment-3327 Simon Blackley Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:01:12 +0000 http://stephanierieger.com/?p=567#comment-3327 Most of our clients use a CWCMS that outputs static HTML. No web application server, so no device or feature detection. Interesting discipline: and of course it doesn't prevent them (or us) from making false assumptions about mobile use cases. Some time I'd appreciate your thoughts on detectionless mobile web. Most of our clients use a CWCMS that outputs static HTML. No web application server, so no device or feature detection. Interesting discipline: and of course it doesn’t prevent them (or us) from making false assumptions about mobile use cases. Some time I’d appreciate your thoughts on detectionless mobile web.

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