Building a device stand
Pictures and plans for building a plywood stand for your device lab. I definitely want one of these for the Clearleft office.
Tags: devices testing
Building the Happy Cog Test Lab - Cognition: The blog of web design
Ryan describes the research and process behind putting together a device lab for Happy Cog in Austin. Good stuff, with handy links gathered together at the end.
Device Lab / Oktavilla
A communal device lab in Stockholm.
Don’t confuse design testing with device testing — Stuff
Andy makes a good point here, point out the difference between device testing and design testing:
When I’m designing, it’s incredibly important for me to quickly gain an affinity with how my design feels when I hold it in my hands.
These are not device testing issues, they are design questions and there’s a huge difference between how an interface feels to use on a smartphone size display and whether the HTML, CSS and Javascript actually works on any particular make or model.
Establishing An Open Device Lab | Smashing Mobile
A great article that looks at everything you need to know to set up a communal device lab in your town.
Device Lab DC | A (coming soon!) community mobile device testing lab in Washington, DC
There’s an open device lab starting up in Washington DC. If you’re in the area, get in touch and share your devices.
Lab Up!
This looks like a great idea: a centralised place for listing open device labs (and hopefully getting some sponsorship from device manufacturers).
Community Device Labs - Google Groups
Jason has set up a mailing list for open device labs. If you are running one, or thinking of setting one up, you should sign up to share ideas and knowledge.
Nomad Device Lab
There’s an open device lab in Cape Town now. Excellent!
A List Apart: Articles: Testing Websites in Game Console Browsers
An excellent in-depth article from Anna on the many gaming devices out there that have both an internet connection and a web browser.
The 64 Digital Super dooper device testing station
There’s a communal testing lab just outside London and they’ve got a very nifty set-up for their devices.
Introducing our “Open Test Lab” for mobile device testing - Blog - 80beans
Now Amsterdam has a communal device lab.
co.up’s new Open Device Lab - co.up
First we take Manhattan…
Berlin now has a communal device lab. Wunderbar!
London Device Library
London now has its own device lab (at the Mozilla offices).
If you’re in London and you have an old phone you could contribute, please, please add it to the contribution.
modl ∴ Malmö Open Device Lab
Now there’s a communal device testing lab in Malmö, Sweden too.
Setting up a mobile testing suite | words from Cole Henley, @cole007
If you’re based anywhere near Frome in Somerset, get in touch with Cole—he’s putting together a communal device testing lab.
A plea for progressive enhancement | Stephanie Rieger
Yes! Yes! Yes!!!
Progressive enhancement is the only sane approach to today’s massively divergent landscape of devices. It can’t be repeated often enough.