Statistics used in this chapter were taken from many sources, notably Vision Mobile’s “The Mobile Industry in Numbers” at http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2012/10/infographic-the-mobile-industry-in-numbers/ and Cisco’s “The Internet of Things” at http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-internet-of-things-infographic/.
You can find a good primer on the IoT in The Next Web’s article “Why 2013 Will Be the Year of the Internet of Things”: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/09/the-future-of-the-internet-of-things/.
David Storey wrote a great post about the non-smartphone mobile web, “See your site like the rest of the world does. On the Nokia X2-01,” at http://generatedcontent.org/post/31441135779/mobileweb-row/.
The best article I’ve read on designing for mobile devices, and from which I quote in this chapter, is Jonathan Stark’s “The 10 Principles of Mobile Interface Design”: http://www.netmagazine.com/features/10-principles-mobile-interface-design/. Jason Grigsby’s excellent article “Responsive Design for Apps” is a good primer for designing for multiple screen dimensions and capabilities: http://blog.cloudfour.com/responsive-design-for-apps-part-1/.
UX Magazine’s article by Brennen Brown, “Five Lessons from a Year of Tablet UX Research,” has some great findings on how people use tablets: http://uxmag.com/articles/five-lessons-from-a-year-of-tablet-ux-research/.
A good starting point for Anna Debenham’s research on games console browsers is an A List Apart article “Testing Websites in Game Console Browsers”: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/testing-websites-in-game-console-browsers/.
Jason Grigsby (again) gave an excellent talk, “The Immobile Web,” on developing for TV. The video is at http://vimeo.com/44444464/, and the accompanying slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/grigs/the-immobile-web/.
For the full research on multi-device usage, see Google’s blog post “Navigating the New Multi-screen World” at http://googlemobileads.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/navigating-new-multi-screen-world.html.
Making your websites Future Friendly is always good: See http://futurefriend.ly/.