Tablet and Mobile Design for Collins Catering & Events

By Tiffaney Gipson

Why you should go mobile?

Make more money for your business

Technology is growing rapidly

Your customers are mobile users

Mobile Statistics

Mobile devices are quickly becoming an more integral part of the web. By 2015 mobile Internet should take over desktop Internet.

On average americans spend 2.7 hours per day on their mobile device. Thats twice the amount of time they spend eating, and 1/3 of the time they spend sleeping.

91% of americans use mobile internet to socialize compared to 79% on desk tops.

4 billion mobile phones in use, 1.08 billion are smartphones and a whopping 3.05 billion are SMS enabled.

How mobile and tablet usage has impacted web design

Tablets are leisure surfing devices people use while lounging at home.

When styling your mobile site, stick to relative units — percentages, ems and so forth. There is no way to predict what mobile devices your users are using today or might be using tomorrow.

The design of Web sites for computers are complex context is another important factor that differentiates the two platforms

Good Mobile Websites!

Twitter

Facebook

Email

Bad Mobile Websites

Clothing websites

Bank websites

Bad Tablet Websites

www3.gotomeeting.com on android devices

Websites with flash

What current technologies can be used to make websites accessible

on all devices

User agent detection

DeviceAtlas

WURFL, HTML5 and CSS

Google’s AdMob acquisition and a Mobile Analytics API

Recommendations

Get to know the devices your customers use so your website can integrate on each mobile device.

Use HTML5 AND CSS since it shows up clean and professional across popular browsers.

References

http://mashable.com/2011/08/05/mobile-design-priority/http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2011/03/10-ways-m

obile-sites-are-different-from-desktop-web-sites.phphttp://www.sitepoint.com/7-tips-to-make-your-web-site-mobile-friendly/

http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2011/01/designing-for-the-mobile-web-special-considerations.php

http://www.smartinsights.com/mobile-marketing/mobile-marketing-analytics/mobile-marketing-statistics/

http://www.webroot.comhttp://www.inc.com

http://www.inspiredcreationscatering.comhttp://www.bitritemarket.com

http://www.bravofoodequipment.wordpress.com