Mobile PhoneWhen designing web pages I don’t usually think too much about how they will be accessed. Usually I just assume that users will have a PC with a browser and/or feedreader. However, I gradually beginning to think that the mobile phone is going to become the main way people access the www (note the distinction between www and internet).

There are a few reasons why I think this, the main one being that cellphones are everywhere. I’m not sure of the exact numbers but I’m reasonably sure that cellphones out number PCs.

My thorough research (sometimes I travel home on the train that ends up full of school kids) indicates there are more cellphones per head in a high school classroom that anywhere else in the world. It’s no surprise that telecom wants to build cell towers on school grounds.

Anyway the point of my post is primarily a reminder to myself: pages have to work at 200×200px. The interface is likely to be fewer than 20 buttons.