Mobile User Experience

Abstract

The current trend in mobiles is to attack the performance problem at the tail end of the mobile pipeline. It is to take an experience we already have and try to optimize it to make it faster. It has become the new game in mobile to add more JavaScript, add another CSS hack, or add expensive content acceleration to an existing mobile experience to gain ourselves a half a second or two. With performance being such a critical problem in mobile, attacking it with this approach equates to shaving off pieces of ice little by little. What we really need is to hack a large chunk off the page’s performance to see a noticeable difference. Only by starting the design of our user experience with performance in mind can we attain this goal. This chapter presents mobile patterns focused on optimized mobile performance.