23 March 2009
Twiggy Week – Let the mobile widget madness begin
We’ve kicked off Twiggy Week here at Carsonified HQ. We’re building a mobile widget that uses the Twitter Search API.
Here are some TwitPics of the current state of the design (early stages). Mike will be regularly taking screenshots of the design.
I interviewed Mike and Elliott to get their thoughts:
Also, we’ll be Qik’ing throughout the week, so here’s our first video.
Photo credit: flickr.com/photos/pixeljuice23
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Robert Banh
# March 23, 2009 - 1:40 pm
Ooo, I can’t wait! The initial design looks very colorful ;)
Julian Cheal
# March 23, 2009 - 2:22 pm
Day one isn’t even over and it’s looking good. :)
Ryan
# March 23, 2009 - 4:02 pm
Thanks guys :)
Melissa Leon
# March 23, 2009 - 5:13 pm
The design looks great so far! Looking forward to tomorrow’s pics.
Steven
# March 23, 2009 - 5:15 pm
Looking good, will be interesting to see how this progresses.
Gareth Poole
# March 23, 2009 - 5:17 pm
looking great so far!
Hiro
# March 23, 2009 - 5:17 pm
love it! I really enjoy following you guys! I look forward to the rest of the week!
Good Luck :)
Grant Mason
# March 23, 2009 - 5:21 pm
Look good! Mike should get some clothes that fit!
Adrian
# March 23, 2009 - 10:23 pm
The problem you will run into with jQuery is that a seperate 17kb or thereabouts download to a mobile device is going to be slow as latency is a real big problem in real world usage of mobile internet.
There was an article from the engineers behind flickr, about their experiences with building a mobile interface to flickr.
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/27/lessons-learned-while-building-an-iphone-site/
Might be some help.
And if you just want jQuerys selector engine to work with, consider just using sizzle. http://sizzlejs.com/
Tyce Clee
# March 24, 2009 - 1:47 am
Excellent work guys, this app sounds like it will be quite beneficial to the wider community. Looking forward to seeing how it’s built and the finished project :)
mike kus
# March 24, 2009 - 8:30 am
@Grant Mason totally agree man… but that’s the tightest fit they had ;)
Carsonified » Blog Archive » One Full-Day Screencast of Twiggy Design
# March 24, 2009 - 11:43 am
[...] Mr Mike Kus, our esteemed designer, is recording his screen during the entire design process of creating and building Twiggy (our mobile widget). [...]
Elliott Kember
# March 25, 2009 - 6:44 pm
Adrian, the app is packaged and stored locally on the phone, so downloading it isn’t a problem!