Mobile web Design: Campus Mobile

Abstract

In 2007, two things happened that set me on the course I am on today: first, I read Ambient Findabilit/, by Peter Morville, in which he explains that information can be accessed via not just laptops, but handheld mobile devices. If the user was truly mobile, they could now access information anywhere, anytime. Second, Apple introduced the iPhone. Though it was not the first phone to display the Internet, it was hyped as the beginning of the next generation of the Mobile web. At the time, Walt Mossberg, respected technology writer for the Wall Street Journal, wrote about the iPhone: "We have been testing the iPhone for two weeks, in multiple usage scenarios, in cities across the country. Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface, which dispenses with a stylus and most buttons, works well, though it sometimes adds steps to common functions.