Ok, I guess a footer might be a better place to put the
links/buttons
since it might be a widely acceptable practice.
Here are mockups for the desktop and mobile versions with links at the footer.
> These switcher links in the footer (Mobile | Desktop) should
always be
> present on all pages of the site be it desktop or mobile version, so you
> can switch at any time.
If we are in the desktop version, does we need to show the link "Desktop"? I
believe only the "mobile" link would be sufficient.
Also, when the user is accessing the mobile version we should present only the link
"Desktop". This is also a common practice.
I made also some suggestions for the mobile homepage following some sign in patterns for
mobile.
What do you guys think about it?
Gabriel
On Apr 12, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Matt Wringe wrote:
Ok, I guess a footer might be a better place to put the
links/buttons
since it might be a widely acceptable practice.
>
> On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 13:39 +0200, Marko Strukelj wrote:
>> AFAICT you can immediately recognize that you're using a mobile version of
>> the site on your phone.
>>
>> First indication is normally URL - it contains m.something or
>> mobile.something or /mobile ...
>> But then immediately you see that fonts are big, there is less content on
>> one screen, navigation is simplified ... things like that.
>> Also it's become standard that you find a link to desktop version at the
>> bottom of the page.
>>
>> These switcher links in the footer (Mobile | Desktop) should always be
>> present on all pages of the site be it desktop or mobile version, so you
>> can switch at any time. A click on this link should be considered a user
>> preference, and remembered, so that links to desktop version will
>> automatically redirect you to mobile version (only if the requested content
>> is available in mobile version I'd say), and when on mobile version you can
>> then click Desktop link to get a desktop version if that's what you want,
>> but this choice will then be remembered so next time you'll automatically
>> be redirected to desktop version.
>>
>> I mostly use desktop versions of sites on my Nexus One - except for sites
>> that are too huge and take too long to render on the phone. And what I hate
>> the most is when I'm redirected to mobile version and and there's no
>> article there - either there's just a title and no content, or I'm
actually
>> redirected to home page. Both of these are a waste of my time and causing
>> me to burn unnecessary data.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Gabriel Cardoso
<gcardoso(a)redhat.com>wrote:
>>
>>>> Something I do all the time on my tablet is switch between the
'mobile'
>>>> site and the desktop version of the site (mostly it's from mobile to
>>>> desktop since on most sites, their mobile version is meant for phones,
>>>> not tablets, and it a horrible experience). This comes down to user
>>>> preference.
>>>>
>>>> The main usecase for this functionality is if I am on a phone and I go
>>>> to the site. For some reason my phone doesn't get detected as a
mobile
>>>> device. Now I am on the desktop version of the site, on a phone, and its
>>>> a bad experience.
>>>> Since my phone didn't get detected as being a mobile device the
first
>>>> time, I can't just dynamically display a link on the desktop site if
I
>>>> think they are a mobile, since doing the detection again isn't going
to
>>>> change anything.
>>>> So displaying the link now is for catching this error condition.
>>> Now it's clear to me the importance of having a link to the mobile site
in
>>> the desktop version :)
>>>
>>>> If I have a link at the top of the page (ideally near the top left),
>>>> then I can easily see on my phone that there is a site designed for my
>>>> device and I can hit the link to go there (discoverability)
>>> Won't you probably realize that the site is designed for your phone by
>>> observing that it's different from the desktop version? I agree that the
>>> links at the top make it even clearer, but maybe it's not a necessary
>>> condition for the discoverability.
>>>
>>>> If its in the footer, than I would have to scroll all the way through
>>>> the page and have to search for the link (and I would have to do this
>>>> blindly and assume there is such a link somewhere on the page, which may
>>>> or may not be true for most sites).
>>> By observing some big sites (like Facebook, I realized that they often
>>> put this link in the footer. That's probably because they assume that
>>> changing the site version is not the common action, but a exception. I
>>> agree with this approach. If the site is not redirect properly redirected
>>> and the user realizes that it is not well presented, he will look for a
>>> place to find a link to make the change.
>>>
>>>> If anyone can come up with another way of handling these situations,
>>>> then maybe we don't need the redirect links in the header.
>>> My main argument is based in the users' behaviors. If the majority of
our
>>> users (our main target) want to switch between site versions often, so the
>>> links need to be highlighted (maybe in the header). But if switching the
>>> site version is gonna be an exception (because the redirection didn't
work
>>> very well), than the links should be in a modest place (like the footer).
>>> And even if most of people want to do it, once they have switched and
won't
>>> do it anymore, the links become a visual noise in the interface -- so
it's
>>> better to be in a more hidden place.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Gabriel
>>>
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