If you’re involved in writing web pages for the iPhone, here’s some thoughts from people who learned their lessons putting together an interface for a pretty popular site:
A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow cellular connections.
Here are a few of the lessons we learned (sometimes painfully) while developing this site…
Good tips on both UI design and technical limits. Read and learn!
