Left to our own devices. — Ethan Marcotte
Your website’s only as strong as the weakest device you’ve tested it on.
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Device intervention. — Ethan Marcotte
But here’s the thing about browsing the modern web with a six year-old laptop: nearly every browser tab causes my fan to spin, and my laptop to warm. Elements of web pages slowly, noticeably, gracelessly ka-chunk-fall into place as they render. While I browse the web, I feel each one of my laptop’s six years.
Building a Device Lab
The book by Destiny Montague and Lara Hogan is online for free with a Creative Commons licence:
Learn to build a device lab with advice on purchasing, power solutions, and much more in this handy pocket guide.
Device Lab / Oktavilla
Do you live in Stockholm? If so, you’ve got a device lab you can visit.
So feel free to drop by and test your responsive/mobile designs.
Perth Device Lab – An Open Device Lab brought to you by Humaan
This might be the most remote open device lab yet. Looks pretty great.
Building a device lab | Five Simple Steps
Lara and her colleague Destiny Montague have published a ridiculously useful handbook on setting up a device lab. For such a small book, it’s surprisingly packed with information.
The Bocoup Open Device Lab
Mat unveils Boston’s open device lab, and provides a beautiful raison d’être while he’s at it:
Websites work everywhere by default, and they stay that way so long as we know how not to break them. That’s what the Open Web means to me: ensuring that entire populations just setting foot on the web for the first time will find it welcoming, regardless of the devices or connections used to get there.
How to build a device lab | Tutorial by Destiny Montague and Lara Swanson
A set of slides from Destiny Montague and Lara Swanson at Etsy with their advice on setting up a device lab. Lara also wrote about the device lab on the Etsy code blog.
DeviceLab | Swapping Device Stands for Lego…
Here’s a nifty way of building stands for your device lab: LEGO!
Labcase - Open Device Lab, in a case.
This is a really great idea—a portable open device lab. It’s UK-based and you can hire it out for a few days at a time.
Donate Your Dusty Device
Got an old phone lying around that you don’t need any more? Why not donate it to a device lab? You know it makes sense.
Antwerp Open Device Lab
Do you know anyone in Antwerp who wants to be part of a communal open device lab? Point them here.
Device lab
These device holders/stands look really nice, and they’d be a real help keeping my spaghetti cables in check.
Izilla Open Device Lab, Newcastle, NSW - Open for Testing!
I believe this may be Australia’s first open device lab. I hope it’s the first of many.
Cover-Up’s open device lab
The guys at Cover Up are great: they make accessories for tablets and e-readers, so they have lots of those devices. They’ve made them all available for web developers to test on. Like I said: they’re great!