{"id":285,"date":"2014-04-17T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinli.com\/pd-networking-v0\/?p=285"},"modified":"2022-01-17T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T00:27:37","slug":"matias-duartes-mobile-is-dead-emphasizes-designing-for-pdis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinli.com\/sruxd-networking-backup01\/matias-duartes-mobile-is-dead-emphasizes-designing-for-pdis","title":{"rendered":"Matias Duarte&#8217;s &#8220;Mobile is Dead&#8221; Emphasizes Designing for PDIs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a video interview with Josh Topolsky for The Verge, Matias Duarte, Head of Design at Android, and formerly of webOS fame, said, \"Mobile is dead.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>...Duarte\u2019s point is that in an age in which users seamlessly transition from one screen size to another during their day, the idea that designers should consider mobile as a distinct category is outdated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/theaccelblog.squarespace.com\/blog\/matias-duarte-on-the-death-of-mobile\">Matias Duarte, Head of Android Design on the Death of Mobile \u2014 Our blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There've been a number of articles recently that resonate with this idea, and the core of it is the need for design to be more user-focused than ever, but with the expanded vision of their activities and experiences being distributed throughout their lives, days, devices, and environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That's the idea behind my \"Personal Digital Infrastructures (PDIs)\"\u2014which I first mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/edwinli.com\/pd-networking-v0\/user-experience-of-ecosystems\/\">User Experience of Ecosystems<\/a>\u2014and, with the forthcoming mainstreaming of wearables and The Internet of Things, it's an idea that will only become more important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video interview with Josh Topolsky for The Verge, Matias Duarte, Head of Design at Android, and formerly of webOS fame, said, &#8220;Mobile is dead.&#8221; 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