Some of the most satisfying work I have done is for mobile entrepreneurs as opposed to companies. These are usually individuals who have made money on some other venture(s) and have a new idea they want to exploit. The work tends to be more interesting because it gives me more opportunity to apply past technical […]

If you need to create iPhone wireframes you might like to take a look at iPhoneMockup. It allows you to create wireframes online, in either a pencil or illustration style and share them with others via a URL.

However, remember wireframes don’t make an app. As I mentioned previously, wireframes are often insufficient on their own. […]

There are some very interesting presentations from the Mobile Marketing Day held in New York yesterday.

There are presentations on…

Mobile Advertising: What’s Working, What’s Not and Why this Year is Breakout
Mobile Commerce: Why a Mobile Store is Key to Continued Loyalty to the Retail Brand and its Outsized Influence on Multichannel Sales
SMS: How the Workhorse […]

I sometimes receive requirements for Android apps that include a design for what was an iPhone app. The people sending me these things think I can just create exactly the same thing on Android and everything will be ok.
Unfortunately, Android has different UI idioms and it’s necessary to translate iOS UI idioms to Android. […]

Over the weekend, I updated my listing of Mobile Market Research to include some research from the last few months. Some of the older links from as far back as 2004 no longer work. However, I have kept them because the titles hold some information. It’s also often possible to use the WayBackMachine to find […]

FirstPartner have a new free Payments Market Map (needs free registration). The Map summarises the "key trends and players across the spectrum of payments". 
 
The relatively recent success of smartphones and apps on smartphones seems to have jump started many areas, such as payments, that were previously promising much but delivering very little. In the past […]

If you are interested in App Market statistics then you should take a look at Lookout’s February App Genome Report. It takes a look at over 500,000 Android and iOS applications. Lookout primarily created the data to demonstrate how mobile apps are accessing personal data and sensitive capabilities. However, there are many other statistics that […]