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Browsing on Mobile Phones

Browsing on Mobile Phones. Customer Focused Mobile Services Workshop in WWW 2005 conference May 10 th , 2005 Virpi Roto Senior Usability Specialist, Browsing Nokia Research Center, Finland. Why this topic?. Browsing on mobile phones will increase Faster connection Less expensive

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Browsing on Mobile Phones

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  1. Browsing on Mobile Phones Customer Focused Mobile Services Workshop in WWW 2005 conference May 10th, 2005 Virpi Roto Senior Usability Specialist, Browsing Nokia Research Center, Finland

  2. Why this topic? • Browsing on mobile phones will increase • Faster connection • Less expensive • Better display • Better interaction mechanisms • Links in emails • Full Web access drives mobile-friendly content • Use cases different from a desktop

  3. 3 layers, holistic usability

  4. Web pages on small devices • Keyhole view problems: • Hard to know what is on this page • Hard to find the target content • Wide texts unreadable on small screens

  5. Zoom out? • Miniature page: • Better understanding on what’s there • Text too small to read when rows fit the screen width • Zooming either requires a dedicated key or a mode • In optimal case, you should be able to zoom & scroll at the same time, which is hard on a limited device

  6. Maybe just new packaging? ;o)

  7. Narrow layout? • Narrow layout: • De facto Web viewing method 2005 on small screens • Wide texts readable • Wide images squeezed to tiny ones, impossible to interpret • Data tables ruined • Hard to know where the needed content is • Huge scrolling effort • Top content looks the same -> Déjà vu

  8. Nothing seems to have changed I do it again I should have scrolled down to see the change Similar top content problem in Narrow layout and again!

  9. Better information visualization methods needed for Web pages on Mobile Phones A modified original layout

  10. Guidelines for Web authors • Avoid large objects that need to be visible at one glance • Avoid using small text in images • Keep the pages light To keep a Web site content mobile phone friendly

  11. Thank You! virpi.roto@nokia.com

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