Our global journey to rethink, redesign, and align our mobile experiences
The Second Smartphone Revolution - AVC
Benedict Evans tweeted out this chart yesterday: We sometimes think of the shift to mobile as finished, or almost finished. It isn’t. pic.twitter.com/l5gaiMlaoU — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) March 12, 2016 The first 2.5bn smartphones brought us Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, Whatsapp, Kik, Venmo, Duolingo, and most importantly, drove the big web apps to build world class […]
Decentralizing My Smartphone With Single Purpose Devices
Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...
Mobile Phone Museum
We are a not-for-profit entity created to safeguard the rich history and design diversity of mobile devices which have been launched over the last four decades.
Making the Jump: How Desktop-Era Frameworks Can Thrive on Mobile
How do tools that grew up on the desktop, like Ember, Angular and React, make the jump to the mobile future?
Nokia Design Archive
Exploring unseen concepts of design and opportunities of design-driven transformation and change
Google's Project Ara: Reinventing the smartphone with building blocks
Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity.
The desktop computer hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years. It’s still built on windows, folders and mouse input. But we have changed. We now use smartphones and tablets most of the time, since they are much easier to use.The traditional desktop computer is struggling to adapt the simple interfaces of mobile devices while also keeping its focus on productivity. With people switching to mobile devices for mundane tasks, we have the opportunity to rethink the desktop computer with a focus on getting professional work done.
Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026 - Francis Irving
There are a few mobile apps that I’ve wanted for a while, and that are relatively speaking just for me.
App Dissection
Breaking down the design details of well-crafted mobile apps. In-depth analysis of UI patterns, interactions, and user experience.
The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps are trying to reinvent our workday
Microsoft, more than any other institution on earth, has shaped how we work and how we think about it. If you spend your days in an office (and often if
Google and Ambient Computing
Google presented a vision of ambient computing that goes beyond the smartphone. The company is well-placed, but faces challenges both in the marketplace and in the mirror.
Catalogue
We are a not-for-profit entity created to safeguard the rich history and design diversity of mobile devices which have been launched over the last four decades.
Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile - The Intercom Blog
Proclamations of an all-native mobile app world ignore the fact that browsers and the web are fast becoming the mobile operating system of the future.
Web Components: The Long Game - Infrequently Noted
Web Components have taken longer than any of us would like to emerge as viable alternatives to proprietary systems that lock teams into choices they can't revisit as necessary, but that day is now here, and it couldn't come at a more appropos point in the arc of mobile's growth.
Sustainable Indie Software — Helftone
We have seen a large shift in the app economy over the past 7 years which has had a huge impact on indie software. In many ways, we have regressed to state which is simply unsustainable in the long term. If you only look at the highly publicised successes, you might assume independent developers are rolling in cash. Do not be fooled, the situation on the ground, especially on iOS, is actually very different – many indies are struggling to make a living.