Babyface Design for Mobile Devices and the Web

Small displays on mobile devices and information appliances, e.g., cellular phones and personal digital assistants, provides special challenges to effective user-interface (UI) design, especially for Web-based services. This extreme form of UI design can be called babyface design. Challenges include limited spatial and color resolution, limited font choice, limited space, and information visualization in the form of miniature charts, maps, and diagrams, particularly table/list navigation. Current products will improve as designers gain more experience.