On 11/16/07, Bryan Minihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is, if we anticipate at least SOME part of the mobile version > will deliver highlight videos, and others will likely be RSS-style text > alerts (who's new, who matches my saved alert, etc), which devices should we > target for testing, in order to capture a pretty significant user base. Our > primary personas fall in these categories: high school athletes & their > fans (generally teenagers - approx 14-19), what I call "advocate fans" > (parents & close friends helping the athlete get recruited), high school & > college coaches (we're researching now, but estimating their ages fall in > the 25-50 range).
Some resources: - a presentation on how to choose mobile technologies http://www.slideshare.net/barbaraballard/going-mobile-choosing-target-devices-platforms - mobile UI patterns http://patterns.littlespringsdesign.com/ - recent mobile device & usage stats http://www.admob.com/metrics/ http://chetansharma.com/ - testing your app (NOT usability testing) on multiple devices http://deviceanywhere.com/ - useful mailing lists http://www.mobiledesign.org/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/ - design guidelines http://dev.mobi/book/export/html/293 In general, you'll find that video clips are going to be your most challenging technical objective. You may want to go web-only first; your market probably isn't saturated with iPhones. Video clips will require device detection and some sophisticated logic unless you partner with a service provider who does it for you. If you need to go cheap on the user research, you can consider that Amp'd did quite a bit of high school boy user research for mobile. -- Barbara Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-785-838-3003 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
