Japanese Mobile Design Showcase

Mobile Design Archive is a new blog where over 400 Japanese cellphone websites screenshot are collected. Because of historical and security reasons, many mobile websites are not accessible from PCs in Japan, some are blocked by browser IP address, others are referring cellphone unique id. So taking screenshots of mobile sites are not easy as… Continue reading Japanese Mobile Design Showcase

Google copies icon from Japanese portal goo (maybe not)

You might notice that Google changed their favicon image which you see on your browser addressbar this week. Here is NTT Resonant’s portal site “goo“‘s icon, goo is one of the biggest portal in Japan, though the gap to the leading Yahoo/Google is big, goo is ranked at 10th among Japanese websites in Alexa traffic.… Continue reading Google copies icon from Japanese portal goo (maybe not)