Mobilism 2011
2011-05-12..2011-05-13
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mobilism ·
[Mobilism 2011, Mobilism 2012, Mobilism 2013, Mobilism 2015]
who it's for
mobile developers, frontend developers, jQuery Mobile developers, UX designers, product managers, web performance engineers, mobile QA engineers
topics
mobile first design; device APIs and PhoneGap; Cordova build workflows; responsive media queries; server-side device detection; client feature detection; high performance mobile; Opera Mini proxy compression; progressive enhancement with jQuery Mobile; mobile debugging tools (Weinre, Ripple); JSON over SMS payments; progressive image delivery
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile first! | Luke Wroblewski | 56m |
Argues that designing mobile first matters because growth and capabilities change the problem: global smartphone shipments surpass PCs earlier than predicted… | ||
| The Future of the Mobile Web | Peter-Paul Koch | 55m |
Claim: native and web coexist and the default flips toward web for many cases; choice depends on use case. Concrete predictions: cheap Android phones hit ~$75… | ||
| Beyond the Mobile Web | Stephanie Rieger | 01h 00m |
Devices move from phones to fragmented platforms and the numbers are concrete: about 35 billion devices predicted, roughly 1.3 billion mobile internet users… | ||
| After HTML5: Mobile Device APIs and PhoneGap | Brian LeRoux | 43m |
PhoneGap prototypes Device APIs and implements media capture, the file API and contacts access; Cordova generates native projects from a web widget and… | ||
| Devices, designs and enabling behaviours | Antony Ribot | 53m |
Slides and demos show specific work not vague theory: U.K. stats (68% have sent a text, ~38% use a browser, ~37% download apps, ~20% of purchases are… | ||
| Mobile browser panel | Jeremy Keith | 01h 42m |
Panel delivers concrete numbers, timelines and trade-offs: 102 million monthly users and “60 billion pages” served via Opera Mini’s server proxy (huge data… | ||
| High Performance Mobile | Steve Souders | 57m |
Case studies show small delays change behavior — a 400 ms server delay yields measurable drops in searches and Yahoo sees 5–9% traffic loss — and fixes pay… | ||
| How to put the Mobile in the Mobile Web | Jen Hanen | 47m |
A concrete case: a seven‑page guerrilla mobile website puts a telephone link on every page and after six months analytics show 57% Blackberry and 23% iPhone… | ||
| Meta Layout: a closer look at media queries | Stephen Hay | 57m |
Walks through actual media query syntax and logical operators then shows which features matter for mobile—visual versus device viewports, the meta viewport… | ||
| jQuery Mobile: Building tools for a changing web | Scott Jehl | 01h 01m |
Explains what jQuery Mobile actually does: a progressive enhancement framework built on jQuery, used on real sites like the Boston Globe and Obama campaign… | ||
| Muddling Through the Mobile Web | Bryan Rieger | 45m |
Claim: a practical pipeline beats vague rhetoric — start with device profiling via Werfel (server query + cookie profile, then client feature detection) to… | ||
| The hitchhiker's guide to mobile development | Nikolai Onken | 50m |
Recommends starting with Android BlackBerry HP and iOS and using PhoneGap for fast native APIs, shows Cloud9 and Apparatio / build.phonegap.com for cloud… | ||
| Mobile & UX: Inside the Eye of the Perfect Storm | Jared Spool | 01h 02m |
Argues four concrete forces driving mobile UX: Sturgeon’s law — 90% is crap makes poor mobile sites visible; market maturity shifts products from features to… | ||
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