The User Condition 04: A Mobile First World - Silvio Lorusso
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Most web user are smarphone users
"In emerging countries, smartphone usage is replacing PC usage, as shown by Robert McGovern. As he puts it, “there’s no doubt that mobile is eating the Web”
"I see this happening on both sides of the age spectrum: the elderly learning to use a smartphone for the first time and that of kids doing their first experience with a mobile or a tablet at a very early age."
"If we are to believe the CNBC, we must admit he was right. Their recent title was “Nearly three quarters of the world will use just their smartphones to access the internet by 2025”."
"If we take all of this into consideration, having in mind mobile phones rather than PCs when we talk of computer users seems both more adherent to the times and more inclusive."
How "mobile's first" affect global web design
"When it becomes clear that sites are mostly accessed via smartphone, more effort will be put in apps and mobile designs. A blatant example of this is Instagram, which desktop version is very limited, not to say crappy."
"I suspect that the frequent layouts with big fonts and a single column are a result of the “mobile first” mindset."
How "mobile's first" affect the way we use computers
"As soon as mobile phone use becomes more frequent than PC use, or it becomes the environment where one learns how to interact with a computer, certain patterns of behavior specific to the former start shaping the latter. For now, I can only bring an empirical observation to the table. I noticed that most students I work with often have a single full-screen window on their screen. "