David Carroll, Professor of Media Design at Parsons - The New School for Design has written a devnet article entitled: “Packing Lite: A mobile media interface design primer”.

Here is what the article is about in a nutshell:

This article covers some of the survival skills needed in going mobile and packing lite, Flash Lite, that is. I’ll describe how to get started, the unique considerations of designing for mobile devices, where to get more information, and what lies ahead. We’ll take a look at both design and development problems you may encounter. Finally, we’ll examine the mobile space as an interdisciplinary endeavor of left and right brain working together to solve the user experience problems of mobile media interfaces.

It’s broken up into these sections:

• Introduction
• Installing and configuring authoring tools and device connections
• Creating and transferring a test file
• Installing a Flash Lite SWF on a Nokia S60 device using a Mac with Bluetooth
• Sending SWFs as a Bluetooth message with a Mac
• Installing a Flash Lite SWF on a Nokia S60 device using Windows with Nokia PC Suite
• Viewing Flash Lite SWFs on your Nokia S60 device
• Adjusting your mindset
• Analyzing a quick 4-way menu example

It’s great to see some of this in article form.

We had though to put some of this in the Foundation Flash Application for Mobile Devices book, but last year I had a encountered a book entitled: “101 Cool SmartPhone Techniques”, and it provided a good example of how quickly talking about specific tools and mobile devices and other technology in a book can become quite dated, and rather quickly I might add.

It’s better to have some of this mobile “workflow” info as an article that can be readily updated!

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