It’s already scary, a formal traditional English Dinner, I’m invited to an in-house typical English dinner, and it’s a Steak night. So to releaf that, I was just checking an English table manners website and all, check this hint out: Never make a great display when removing hair, insects or other disagreeable things from your food. Place them quietly under the edge of your plate.
So if it happened that I saw a roach in my food I should take it and hide it under my plate?
Following the latest trend in the Mobile Web Browsers market Opera will release a full browser for Mobiles incorporating the intellegent zoom and overviews of pages along with Widgets and advanced client-side capabilities. Joining the Mobile Safari and DeepFish, taking the small screen web browsing experience to the next level matching desktop experiences.
Better hardware, so why not?
It’s a confusing debate if you think about it, having the main challenge which is punching keypads and scrolling pitches to navigate. Getting back to the fact that loading Desktop optimized websites are bandwidth hungry despite the fact that they could be built with standards and clean structural markup, there’s always rich media and imagery that no matter how optimized they get or cached they still make up a good figure in KB downloads, considering the newness of the whole 3G/GPRS service packages and pricing models they’re so not welcoming.
Yes, better hardware, better interfaces and experiences are positive but the limitations haven’t been taken off the way yet, is this going to make it tougher to think of Mobile Optimized websites?
Or as Steve Jobs mentioned in the latest D5 interview that the Mobile Web as the tiny screens and tiny pages mean poor experience and not even close to a proper experience?
If these browsers take of, and get adopted, then we’re likely to spend more on Data plans and less on paying for Mobile Optimized web projects, that is the death of the Mobile Markup and even the dotMobi model.
Yes, Experience is king, but economic accessibility is a must, not forgetting that size really matters and differentiates the whole experience, I’m still so not convinced that this is the way the Mobile Web should’ve been directed.
At the end of the day, it’s a new industry all over again, and believe it or not, Jobs was right when he said iPhone would revlutionize the mobility world, yes it applies to the Mobile Web too, thin about how DeepFish and Opera 9 are coming out soon the whole Mobile Web design and use will change.
Another stage, another transition, another form to adopt and get adjusted to, for us Designers and Developers.
Not so big on such superstitious stuff, but today is 07/06/07, a year a go on 06/06/06 everyone went crazy for the 666 day, not forgetting the movie “The Omen”. Next month on the same day it’s going to be 777. Yea you could take it as a lucky day if you believe in 7 as a magical number. So many people are getting married on that day.
To me, after long debates with self and lots of research, I’ve come to a decision on starting a book on Mobile Web Design/Advertising/Marketing. I know many have been written already, it keeps on getting hotter as an industry n’ I believe I’ve got things to add. I’m going for it, what do you think?
Got a tiny outline ready to show publishers, think you can help or have ideas? Please do tell, I’d love to hear’em.
It’s a fact, many brands and tag lines get word-by-word translations. Imagine having Nike’s “Just do it” translated into Arabic? Now think about what that would mean, it’d turn into such an offensive tag line instead of being a catch phrase. And otherwise is true too. Some phrases exist in both English and Arabic languages. Interestingly Mobinil a telecomm operator in Egypt has got it right with their tag using two equivalent phrases as their catch lines.
In English: Communicate form the heart
In Arabic: ????? ?? ?????
The two are so different in meaning even though they are nearly word-by-word translations.
In English: It’s about Sincerity and Passion.
In Arabic: It’s an S-lang phrase, used when spending on something accessible and easy to purchase in a way it could be taken for granted. Turned into text and formal, it is talking sincerely and freely all the way from deep down.
Although I feel there has been a mix up somewhere, I could still give it a plus. But still, the identity has a different taste in English, deeper in Arabic.
Posted: June 2nd, 2007 | Author:dotblack | Filed under:Business, UAE | Comments Off
A word we all hear dozens of times a day if not more. This very adjective is a real pain when it comes to dealing with clients who’ve worked with traditional Advertising agencies. They refer to whatever visual as the “Creative”. Been around that for longer than five years, every agency I worked at followed that too. Semantics can really become annoying when they make communication stickier than it is.
I’m not sure if this is the case worldwide, whenever a User Interface is done and shown to a client, the feedback comes back in the form of “Creative” was right to the point, go with it, or an e-mail with the subject “Re Creative”, “we need some changes”.
I believe it’s been years and years now, web business is not equal to Advertising business. The process ain’t the same, the aesthetics’s of a website is not the only creative part.
So what I’ve got from the noun “Creative” from clients’ marketing departments is whatever you show them that is visual. So a snapshot of an interface is a “Creative”. Any visual be it an interface or even a photo they’d call it “Creative”. The same old “Creative” I used to hear when I worked as a Graphic Designer for Print. It’s for Web and it ain’t only the pretty pictures, it’s annoying.
Creative is copy, graphics and aesthetics, interaction, web branding, and definitely every effort put into the creative process of achieving a website’s purpose.
1-a person directly involved in a creative marketing process: He is a visionary creative. 2. the product of a designer directly involved in a creative marketing process: Have you finished the creative for next week’s email campaign?
And the plural form of creative:
A series of products or the collective products of a designer or designers directly involved in a creative marketing process: The design team has completed the creative for next month’s multi-part ad campaign; I’ve included in my portfolio all the creative I’ve completed in my five year design career.
Posted: June 1st, 2007 | Author:dotblack | Filed under:Business, Tech | Comments Off
You’ve heard it hundreds of times, read it thousands of times, that banking system in “The Cloud”, this music store in “The Cloud”. That’s how generally the geek-cool guys call Web Services, I agree, it’s so obvious, but if you’re a Web Enthusiast and work in the field, cloud looks like a stupid idea, think about it, what is intangible for most geek-cool guys on podcasts and interviews is your daily bread and butter, you touch it everyday, so it is tangible to you, cloud?
Yet another name, “In the air”. Like it? I don’t find it cool at all. It’s not like web developers would call OS clients and apps as “On the ground” apps or “Underground” or some.
Sony Ericsson P1 was launched in UAE ten days ago, it’s the best Sony Ericsson smartphone ever! The smoothness of the M600i added to the utility nature of P990i gets you a new smartphone, the P1.
If you haven’t used the SE smartphones, then you’re possibly missing on some serious Mobile interactivity. UIQ interfaces are intimidating in the beginning, add the rocker-style QWERTY keyboard style, a week and you’re on for serious e-mailing and web browsing. Real desktop style RSS reading too!
Online, E-mail, and all the Multimedia in pocket are old News, every other phone’s got it. Feature wise, it has nothing more than the latest phones in the market, But why P1 is different? It’s the user experience, once engaged, you can’t take using another, see for yourself.
P1i Photos
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Here’s a brief video:
P1i is really something. Okay it doesn’t come with GPS receiver nor a mapping app, although I was anticipating it so bad and wanned it, that’s a miss out there. But still I’m going for its grabs today.
