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Interface Design

• Postcard Posted Friday, February 19, 2010 Jim Garretson 4 Comments

  

  Let’s continue the theme of Cool Stuff Week-related posts. Brendan’s told us about OpenSocial, Huan has compared Rails and Django, and I’m happy to talk now about one of my CSW projects. It’s a prototype iPhone app I’m calling Postcard, and I think it’s a big step towards addressing one of our customers’ most pressing problems.

   
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  Cocoa • Innovation • Interface Design • Iphone • Mobile • Objective-C

• Developing for the Mobile Web Posted Tuesday, December 29, 2009 Reneldy Senat 0 Comments

  

  After developing the mobile version of the Constant Contact Labs website, I’ve learned 2 really important lessons:

  Developing a mobile website is “easy”
  Planning for a mobile website is “hard”

  Here’s why…

   
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  Interface Design • Mobile • Web Development

• QuickView for Android Preview Posted Friday, December 18, 2009 Jim Garretson 16 Comments

  

  We’ve written in some detail here about QuickView, Constant Contact’s iPhone app. It’s providing our customers with a quick and convenient way to interact with their email campaigns, contacts and lists while on-the-go, and we’re hearing from iPhone-owning customers that they really appreciate the value it adds to their Constant Contact accounts.

  We’ve also been hearing from customers of the nation’s largest wireless carrier, though, and they’re wondering when they’ll be able to take advantage of a mobile Constant Contact experience. The answer is: soon. Very soon. Labs is happy to pull back the curtain a bit today and talk about the upcoming QuickView for Android.

   
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  Android • Interface Design • Mobile

• Information Density and Mobile Devices Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 Jim Garretson 0 Comments

  Information density isn’t a glamorous user interface design metric, but it’s critical to quick and effective communication. In this post I’m going to talk a bit about what information density is, why it’s important, and how we’re intending to use it to our advantage on mobile devices.

   
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  Interface Design • Iphone • Mobile
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