Tag Archives: mobile devices

Recent Pew Research Center Studies

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Pew Study: Technology Aids Students’ Writing Skills Though Challenges Remain | The Digital Shift
Digital technologies are impacting American middle and high school students’ writing in many ways, both good and bad, a new national report from the Pew Research Center shows.

Internet adoption becomes nearly universal among some groups, but others lag behind | Pew Research Center
New data from the latest survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project in the spring shows that 85% of Americans adults use the internet at least occasionally.  Five years ago, in an April 2008 survey, 73% of adults used the internet.  Ten years ago, in May 2003, 63% of adults used the internet.

Personal. Portable. Participatory. Pervasive. from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Internet
A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have become central to their teaching and professionalization. At the same time, the internet, mobile phones, and social media have brought new challenges to teachers, and they report striking differences in access to the latest digital technologies between lower and higher income students and school districts.

40 Great Apps for Mobile Reference and Outreach | American Libraries Magazine

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The desire to learn about useful mobile apps is widespread among librarians, judging by the overflow crowd at Sunday’s Conversation Starter [ALA Conference 2013], billed to deliver “40 Great Apps for Mobile Reference and Outreach.”

via 40 Great Apps for Mobile Reference and Outreach | American Libraries Magazine.

Make Web sites mobile-friendly or face Google search wrath | Internet & Media – CNET News

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If smartphone users have problems with your site, here’s some incentive to fix them: Google said Tuesday it plans to punish problematic sites with lower placement in search results.

via Make Web sites mobile-friendly or face Google search wrath | Internet & Media – CNET News.

The Rise of the Mobile-Only User | Karen McGrane – HBR

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If you’re trying to reach specific audiences, you can’t afford to ignore mobile-only users. As Pew Internet reports:

  • Young adults: 50 percent of teen smartphone owners, aged 12-17, say they use the internet mostly on their cell phone, according to a 2013 Pew Internet report on Teens and Technology. Similarly, 45 percent of young adults aged 18-29 reported in 2012 that they mostly go online with a mobile device.
  • Black and Hispanic adults: 51 percent of black Americans and 42 percent of Hispanic Americans who use a mobile device to access the internet say that’s the primary way they go online — about double the 24 percent of white Americans who say they rely on their mobile devices for access.
  • Low-income adults: People whose household income is less than $30,000 per year and people with less than a college education are also more likely to rely on their mobile devices for access — about 40 percent of people in these groups say they primarily use their cell phone to go online. Healthcare, non-profit, and government institutions which need to reach these populations should be aware that their audience is mobile-only.

See the full article: The Rise of the Mobile-Only User | Karen McGrane – Harvard Business Review.

Infographic: 2012 Mobile Growth Statistics | DigitalBuzzBlog 

The Rise of Mobile

The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual | Co.Design

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Next up: Machines that understand you and everything you care about, anticipate your behavior and emotions, absorb your social graph, interpret your intentions, and make life, um, “easier.”

via The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual | Co.Design: business + innovation + design.

How the Internet of Things Changes Everything – Stefan Ferber – Harvard Business Review

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The fact that there will be a global system of interconnected computer networks, sensors, actuators, and devices all using the internet protocol holds so much potential to change our lives that it is often referred to as the internet’s next generation via How the Internet of Things Changes Everything – Stefan Ferber – Harvard Business Review.

The article provides a business perspective on the importance of the Internet of Things.

10 Developer Tips To Build A Responsive Website [Infographic] – ReadWrite

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From the article:

Many website owners say to themselves, “I want my site to look great on mobile, but I don’t know where to start.”

If you are in the business of building and designing websites, you cannot ignore the fact that many people are going to be visiting your sites on their smartphones and tablets. The Web and the mobile browsers remain one of the top ways that users interact with websites and if they have trouble on their smartphone, there is a good chance they are not coming back.

That’s where responsive design can help.

Responsive design is a concept where you build your website once and then format it so it can adapt to any screen size that accesses it. Designers use HTML5 and CSS to build the sites and set parameters so the content will resize itself whether the user is in vertical or horizontal viewing mode, on a tablet, desktop or smartphone or even a screen as large as a television.

via 10 Developer Tips To Build A Responsive Website [Infographic] – ReadWrite.

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20 Excellent Wireframing Tools for Mobile | Mashable

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20 Excellent Wireframing Tools for Mobile | Mashable

This is the list from Mashable:

  1. Framer – Modern prototyping tool

  2. Indigo Studio – Rapid, interactive prototyping

  3. Mockingbird – Wireframes on the fly

  4. Simulify – Interactive, shareable wireframes, mockups and prototypes

  5. Solidify – Create clickable prototypes

  6. Lovely Charts – Diagramming app with desktop and mobile versions

  7. ForeUI – Easy to use UI prototyping tool

  8. Creately – Realtime diagram collaboration

  9. JumpChart – Architecture, layout and content planning

  10. Lumzy – Mockup creation and prototyping tool

  11. Concept.ly – Convert wireframes and designs into interactive apps

  12. Frame Box – Easy, simple wireframing

  13. Realizer – Interactive presentation prototypes

  14. Cacoo – Diagrams with realtime collaboration

  15. Mockup Builder – Super-easy prototyping and mockups

  16. Tiggzi – Develop cross platform mobile apps fast

  17. Mockup Designer – Basic wireframing tool hosted on GitHub

  18. ClickDummy – Turn mockups into clickable prototypes

  19. Mockups.me – Create and present interactive UI wireframes

  20. Mockabilly – iPhone mockups with genuine iphone behavior

  21. RWD Wireframes – Wireframing tool for responsive layouts

  22. Blocks – Create annotated HTML prototypes

  23. UX Toolbox – Create, document and share wireframes and prototypes

Responsive web design vs. mobile app development | TechRepublic

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Most businesses and organizations have websites, and with the popularity and proliferation of all sizes of mobile devices, a mobile strategy for those websites is more important than ever.

via Responsive web design vs. mobile app development | TechRepublic

Mobile App or Mobile Website?