A List Apart: Issue 245

September 11, 2007

Iconfactory’s Craig Hockenberry concludes his insightful series on designing with the iPhone in mind, and Adaptive Path's Sarah Nelson shows us how to pull back the curtain on the designer/client relationship.

Get Out from Behind the Curtain

by Sarah B. Nelson

Client input: positive process or creative noose? Many designers would probably say the latter. But it needn't be that way. Adaptive Path's Sarah Nelson shows how to create collaborative work sessions that take the clients' needs in hand while leaving creative control in yours.

Put Your Content in my Pocket, Part II

by Craig Hockenberry

Screen size matters. And now that Apple is embedding mobile Safari in more iPods than the iPhone alone, it matters even more. Concluding his remarkable two-part series, Craig Hockenberry covers the down and dirty details of designing and coding with the iPhone (and its brethren) in mind.

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Editor’s Choice

originally ran: August 31, 2004

Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your Website to the Small Screen

by Elika Etemad, Jorunn D. Newth

Among the many websites that are out there, few are standards-compliant. Among those few, only a handful sport style sheets adjusted to the needs of handheld devices. Of those which do offer styling for handhelds, not all will fit the smallest, lowest-resolution screens without presenting the user with the ultimate handheld horror: namely, horizontal scrolling. This article presents a set of general suggestions for creating a handheld-friendly style sheet that works well even on handheld screens no wider than 120px.