The Marlin Mobile Blog

Download our very own Android 1.6 wireframe stencil add-on for OmniGraffle 5.x.  This is the exact tool we use to create wireframes for our Android customers.  As part of the UX community, we believer in sharing the tools of the trade.  Wireframe stencils like this one help us visualize and mock up mobile designs and [...]

A news item that represents significant momentum in enabling 3G access to the masses in China: http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/business-in-china/100136206-1-domestic-firms-win-big-3g.html Wire service reports indicate that the China Mobile service will be rolled out to 98% of China’s natural villages when the project is finished, which will gradually begin to provide stronger predictability and forecasting for the mobile experience [...]

When asked to provide an exciting example of a behind-the-firewall or enterprise mobile web experience, I most often cite examples pertaining to healthcare and field-based data collection.  I find the most compelling and vivid instances combine the two and are applied to the developing world.  Mobile Marketer recently shared the work of DataDyne’s EpiSurveyor that [...]

TeleGeography provided an update today on the regional growth trends of wireless access… ‘There is a huge range in growth rates, which presents a real challenge to companies targeting the markets,’ said TeleGeography executive director John Dinsdale. ‘Many will be surprised by some of the countries at the extremes of this range. For example, many [...]