by David Lee King on April 5, 2012
I was just looking at March 2012 statistics on my library’s website. Here’s what I saw:
- 39,161 visits to our website in March
- 3486 visits via a mobile device.
- that means slightly more than 11% visited via a mobile device
- Those devices? Mainly iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches – 57.89%
- That fits with the web browsers that visited our site – 14.11% were Safari (think ithingies here)
Now look at Pew’s newest Smartphone Update, released on March 1: 46% of American adults are smartphone owners as of Feb 2012. There was an increase of 11% in just 9 months.
And check this out – it’s not just wealthy people getting smartphones:
“Nearly every major demographic group—men and women, younger and middle-aged adults, urban and rural residents, the wealthy and the less well-off—experienced a notable uptick in smartphone penetration over the last year. Overall adoption levels are at 60% or more within several cohorts, such as college graduates, 18-35 year olds and those with an annual household income of $75,000 or more.”
So my question to you: are you designing for mobile? A mobile app, or a mobile website?
If you haven’t yet started building with mobile in mind, now is definitely the time to start – you are very close to alienating almost half your customers. They are interacting with their favorite sites online using their smartphone (think Facebook, Amazon, Youtube, etc.).
Wanna be one of those favorite sites too? Then you had better get that mobile site up and running FAST.
smartphone photo by Bigstock
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by David Lee King on March 26, 2012
As usual, I had a great time at Computers in Libraries 2012 (#CILDC). I learned some interesting things, and met some really cool people too.
I also gave a few presentations (ok – five presentations). Here are a couple of my slidedecks and some notes people took during the presentations, so you can get a feel for my sessions. Enjoy!
1. Seven Essential Elements to an Awesome Library Website
Nicole Engard took some pretty thorough notes! This slidedeck made the main page of Slideshare, in the Featured and the Top Pro Content sections!).
2. Digital Hangouts: Reaching Outside the Building
4. Benchmark Study – Library Spending and Priorities 2012 (another panel – notes from Joanna’s Conference Reports blog).
5. Let’s Make Video! (a preconference workshop with Michael Porter. Notes from the Montana BTOP Technology Training blog).
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by David Lee King on March 21, 2012
Six speakers in 45 minutes! Here are some highlights…
MIT App Inventor and jQuery:
MIT App Inventor – a web-based Android app development tool. Store your code at the site, can test what you’re building by using the site. Has a designer that lets you add components, modules, etc.
Has an AppToMarket that uploads your app to the Android app stores (some registration and a small payment is required for that).
jQuery: mobile framework that’s completely web-based. Basically a cross-browser javascript library that could be pretty handy for web design, including mobile design. Also check jquerymobile.com – a mobile framework. Sweet.
Next up: what’s a mobile framework? Gave an example of mobile design and redesign… they used jquerymobi
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by David Lee King on March 21, 2012
So I’m at Computers in Libraries 2012 in Washington DC – always a great conference! Make sure to check out presentations online, and follow the #cildc hashtag on twitter… Here’s a couple of notes from a session … more to come later!
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I walked in late to this session, but what I heard was great.
Jeff Wisniewski was talking about mobile stuff, and said this:
mobile first is different than mobile-friendly! Then gave examples of how some people are redesigning websites with tablets and smartphone functionality in mind.
Good stuff…
Next up – Cindy Hart, talking about augmented reality and library resources for enhanced digital storytelling…
they used http://tagwhat.com/ to help them create stories. Looks like a cool tool to check out!
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by David Lee King on February 11, 2012
I was just looking at March 2012 statistics on my library’s website. Here’s what I saw:
