Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 11:14 pm.
Ever since the launch of WAP in the late 90’s, people have been predicting the year of the rise for mobile internet. With the ability to connect to the world wide web through your iphone, ipad or any other mobile device, comes exciting opportunities within website design. Taking a look through recent mobile website design trends, we can start to see a clear favourite in which could become this years mobile heavyweight, Mocial Networking!
It’s not all about M-Commerce
Not so long ago, we saw all eyes focusing on the potential rise of people choosing, not only to purchase through the internet, but also using their mobile phones. This still appears to a somewhat slow starter. Reasons for this could be attributed to any number of influential factors, including the small screen size of devices, clunky interfaces making for difficult navigation of stores, and slow connection speeds, meaning, suddenly this is not the quicker option. It could certainly be said, that as things stand, just being able to do your shopping away from the hustle and bustle of the high street is more than enough from the convenience of your own home.
Website Design Mobile Marketing
As with many new marketing concepts, many people focus on the potential benefits that these can bring, only to find, that they are not always the golden goose which you expected them to be. Mobile marketing in the sense of text messaging and blue-tooth marketing, although having been adopted by many corporate brands, don’t seem to warrant the investment within website design. People soon get sick of receiving text messages which don’t contain exciting accounts of your best friends latest drunken shenanigans, but instead the inevitable two for one offer from Mecca Bingo.
Say Hello to Mocial Networking!
Now onto the 2010 firm favourite. The most in demand use for mobile website design browsing habits, is the spread of the infectious Mobile Social Networking or “Mocial Networking” as it is now being dubbed! Interacting with a friend, outweighs the spend!
…And for Website Design?
Bearing in mind the various types of mobile device uses, and the statistics for which one can clearly deem the most popular, any forward thinking website design company should be looking to invest a growing proportion of their budget into “Mocial Networking” and app development. With the highly anticipated arrival of the social networking protocol, which will only stand to cut out the the middle man, namely facebook, I’m sure its certainly advisable to make some good ground with this one throughout 2010!
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