DeviantArt, the enormously popular art sharing website, has launched an iPhone version of their site that is everything you would expect from a site full of graphic artists and creative types.
While I don’t have an iPhone, I do have an iPod Touch, I took a run over to the site to see how well it functioned, and I have to say it is one of the best optimizations I’ve seen yet for the mobile version of Apple’s Safari browser. The screens are rich and detailed, easy to navigate, and just a pleasure to use.
If you go in to any of the pieces, you’ll get a tabbed experience that gives you the image, details on the piece, and the comments others have left on the work. Essentially you get all of the features of the site in a very friendly format.
Most sites that say they have come out an iPhone version release just a bare bones version of their site without any real thought to how the users will interact with the site in a shrunken down version. You can clearly see that DeviantART gave theirs a lot of thought, and it has paid off.
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