Mobile Designer / モバイルデザイナー
Mobile Development
"Kisekae" Menu Tool
Monday, 27 February 2006 at 20:30 GMT, by Jonathan Witte
I was so happy that my friend and colleague helped me with this application. "Kisekae" is a menu development tool. When you press the "MENU" button, you will see various folders to your mobile phone application. This can be customized using Flash making your mobile phone menu really neat! The files associated with these are ".ucm" and ".ucp"
We had run into a few problems and my dear friend told me to upload the content within these apps using relative paths instead of absolute. Couldnt believe that it only works hat way. but it has been done. Read more »
"CP", What is a "Content Provider"?
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A "Content Provider" is a company who connects businesses that serve a purpose in the mobile industry. As for the United States, the carrier monopolizes content so that all profit from users go directly to the carrier. As for Japan, "content providers" make their own content or from small companies or individuals, connects the two. The process is very strict depending on the carrier. For an example, DoCoMo NTT (Nippon Telephone and Telegraph) used to be a government-run phone company, therefore in the ever-so-slowly changes in Japanese business, NTT keeps its process as it has done for years. It is strict to ensure that it serves the community respectively. As for AU KDDI and Softbank (formally Vodafone), these were private companies. So you can see why the process could be long and difficult for NTT. So for small companies or individuals to have their mobile website on the carriers' "Official Menus", it taks a lot of meetings, development, planning, and money. "Content Providers" link the two parties and takes a small percentage of the profit. Read more »
Flash Lite 3.0 Release!
2/12/07 - Adobe Release
Wow! I was so happy to hear that Adobe was going to release "Flash Lite 3.0"! Development CDKs should be released mid-2007 and then close to the end of 2007. This upgrade will use FLV format for mobile devices instead of the device's video format. My poor friend who spends hours upon hours converting videos is really excited about this move. But unfortunately, until everyone is pushed to newer devices, he will continue converting 3gps, etc......
Accessing Mobile Websites
An alternative in attracting users
Most users access "official websites" from the carrier's menu. But did you know that there are thousands of "UNofficial mobile websites"? How do they access the "UNofficial mobile websites"?
Mobile Flash Menus
New UIs for Mobile Devices
Typically, Mobile websites use xHTML for their homepage. This is a common language to use for mobile website homepages. My company gave me the opportunity to make an "Official Website" for DoCoMo and AU using Flash Lite. We are very proud to be the first to develop this in the world. Here is a short video clip of the menu. Very cool!