This is the first post about a new Intute project called the Mobile Internet Detective and over the coming months I will be reporting here on the progress.
The Intute Internet Detective is already positioned as an extremely popular, well respected free online tutorial, helping the user to assess the academic validity of websites.
Internet Detective
The Mobile Internet Detective, a JISC Rapid Innovations project, intends to build on the existing service by extending its reach to include mobile users.
One of the main aims will be to deliver a user friendly mobile site that is fast and inexpensive to load, providing the right content, presented in the right order and with an adapted layout that utilises the mobile environment.
The groundwork is already well underway:
- Intute has commissioned a piece of market research to carry out a series of focus groups to establish the key issues for users of mobile technology when browsing the Internet
- work on adapting the existing content has commenced, including the production of a podcast for the tutorial to provide an alternate method of access for the mobile user
- as developer for the project, I have attended a course entitled Creating Mobile Websites which was presented by Stuart Smith of 3 Sheep. This provided an excellent grounding to mobile web development and I would recommend it to anyone who is about to start work in this field
In the following weeks and months I will be looking at issues like:
- Feedback from the user focus groups
- Domain name strategy
- Mobile website design and technical strategies
- Creating mobile websites
- Optimisation of mobile websites and utilising the mobile environment
- Mobile website content creation
So check here for regular progress updates!
Tags: implementation, JISC, JISCRI, methodology, MOBILEDET, productivity, progressPosts, rapidInnovation
