mobile design and development - brian fling
I am conflicted about Mobile Design and Development. On the one hand it's a very thorough overview of the things you have to keep in mind while developing for mobile web - the sections on testing services and platforms is incredibly detailed and probably quite useful if you actually develop and deploy mobile stuff (in which case: poor you - that sure sounds like a painful process!).
On the other hand, I had hoped for a practical design book, a book of case studies on what to do for the mobile web and how to do it. Examples of "we had problem A, and then we did this:" or "we did Design B first, and then we tested it, and we found out that we should have done something like Design C, and here's why...". Take the reader through a couple of recognizable projects - they don't have to be real-life examples, but I had hoped for more of an information architecture / mobile design book, with clear explanations of the choices made.
I guess I wanted this book, but then written by Christina Wodtke or Luke Wroblewski...
15-02-2010
