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Article 13

Twiggy Week – Let the mobile widget madness begin

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23 March 2009 | Category: Code

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.

Screengrab of Mike's screen showing early stage of Twiggy
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Screengrab of Mike's screen showing 2nd stage of Twiggy
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Screengrab of Mike's screen showing 3rd stage of Twiggy
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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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Comments

  • http://twitter.com/robertbanh Robert Banh

    Ooo, I can’t wait! The initial design looks very colorful ;)

  • Julian Cheal

    Day one isn’t even over and it’s looking good. :)

  • http://carsonified.com Ryan

    Thanks guys :)

  • http://www.melissaleon.tumblr.com Melissa Leon

    The design looks great so far! Looking forward to tomorrow’s pics.

  • http://www.little-empire.co.uk Steven

    Looking good, will be interesting to see how this progresses.

  • http://www.garethpoole.co.uk Gareth Poole

    looking great so far!

  • http://hiromaeda.com Hiro

    love it! I really enjoy following you guys! I look forward to the rest of the week!

    Good Luck :)

  • Grant Mason

    Look good! Mike should get some clothes that fit!

  • http://navitronic.co.uk Adrian

    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/

  • http://www.iamtyce.com/ Tyce Clee

    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 :)

  • http://www.twitter.com/mikekus mike kus

    @Grant Mason totally agree man… but that’s the tightest fit they had ;)

  • http://carsonified.com/twiggy/one-full-day-screencast-of-twiggy-design Carsonified » Blog Archive » One Full-Day Screencast of Twiggy Design

    [...] Mr Mike Kus, our esteemed designer, is recording his screen during the entire design process of creating and building Twiggy (our mobile widget). [...]

  • http://www.elliottkember.com/ Elliott Kember

    Adrian, the app is packaged and stored locally on the phone, so downloading it isn’t a problem!

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