Part One: State of the Mobile Web

The Mobile Web will require a new set of User Interface Design principals ...

"However, we’re looking to the future of the Mobile Web, where’s it’s headed, or better yet, where it’s supposed to be headed, regardless of geographic differences. If by authoring this series we have any influence on the direction of that path, we’ll sleep well at night knowing we’ve completed the task we set out to accomplish.

On that note, consider some of the more encouraging signs of mobile design and development:

• There are three times as many mobile phones as PCs worldwide, and that gap doesn’t show any signs of decreasing
• Virtually all phones on the market today are web-enabled
• Google maintains a separate index for “true” mobile-friendly sites, Google Mobile
• Mobile startups are currently experiencing large amounts of investment dollars
• Location-based services, such as GPS and RFID technologies, are right around the corner, providing local context to web content

So in short, we know mobile users are already accessing the web on their devices, and we can safely bet they’ll continue to do so. The question then becomes, How do we design for the mobile web? A superb question, indeed, and one that will have to be answered in Part Two: Methods to the Madness. Stay tuned."   continued ...   (Via Authentic Boredom)

User Interface Design has to accomodate various screen sizes.