Mobile Library Platforms

Getting a Second Chance at a First Impression Tom Ipri University of Nevada Las Vegas

Missing the Shift

Mobile Devices
Let’s not screw up again!
New paradigm, i.e. NOT Desktop Lite
No crappy mobile sites/apps based on crappy library web sites

FEEDBACK Focus Groups Surveys Card Sorting Paper Prototypes
Focus Groups
Surveys
Card sorting
Paper prototypes

Feedback
Should there be a site?
What should be on the site?
What is realistic?
Mobile device will be primary connection tool to the Internet by 2020 2
Does that imply correlation to library use for YOUR population?

Feedback

Considerations 3
Mobile Web Is Mobile
Transactional Not Browsing
Very Different Devices
Screen size
Input
Poor cursor control

Considerations 3
If Web Text Is Brief, Mobile Text Should be über-brief
Complex Navigation
Even good connections are slow
Essential Information

Mobile Usability 4
Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998
Desktop success rate: 80%
Average mobile success rate: 59%
Designed for mobile: 64%
Full site: 53%

Mobile Usability 4
Better phone perform better
Feature phones: 38%
Smartphones: 55%
Touch Phones: 75%

Sources
Teens and Mobile Phones over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back
Apprehending the Future
Compiled from:
Designing Usable Pocket Rockets
7 Usability Guidelines for Websites on Mobile Devices
Create a Mobile Site
Mobile Usability

Photo Sources
http://thebiguglywebsite.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbeck/2715565881/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photophonic/232488396/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/djwudi/382030798/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhook/2830319467/

Mobile Library Platforms

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