John, I think that mobile interactions are a whole mostly new area. While there might be, and should be, some things borrowed from other devices and environments, the combination of factors at play for mobile users (broader and more temporal contexts, touchscreens, softkeys, differing app and browser behaviors, etc.) make it really hard to say "yes, let's use this thing from the past." For example, I am unsure that numeric input will be primary. Moreover, I'm quite sure no one really understands yet what the "standard UI functions" for mobile are. And certainly there will be context and task variations of them when we think we do.
One last note. I don't have any references at hand, but I will say this about voicemail. My hope is that it is changing and drastically. New (to the public) features such as the visual aspect on the iPhone and transcription to email are signs of what in my opinion is a long overdue rethinking of the voice message silo. ph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36742 ________________________________________________________________ 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
