John Rhodes over at Apogee has published a very interesting article on the how information that is mobile is the new future of usability.

A mobile phone is a complex mix of hardware and software. Mobile phones are finally coming out of the primordial soup. Small, light, powerful tools usually beat big, heavy, slow tools. To put it another way, your mobile phone is getting to be as powerful as, if not more important than your desktop or laptop computer. That means more people having more problems for more reasons. The future of usability is mobile.

Technology is extremely mobile but information is now more mobile too. The future of usability isn’t just mobile technology but the increased mobility of information. In years past, information moved more slowly than it does now. It was also narrower, more refined, and more controlled. Simply compare the distribution of news 20 years ago via TV, radio and newspapers compared with the internet, satellite radio, and email. The difference in information mobility is over the top.

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