User Centered

(Update: edited number 5 below...)

I can't wait for mobile widgets.

Currently, to find out weather info on my phone, I have to:
1)Select my browser from a phone menu
2)Select "bookmarks"
3)Scroll to weather.com bookmark
4)Select Bookmark
(of course, you'd have to type the URL if it's not bookmarked)
5)(optional)enter zip code or city information
6)Read Current temp...Click on appropriate forcast (I always use the "hour by hour"), navigate page as necessary...(back/forward, links etc...)
-hopefully, steps 5 and 6 are optimized for mobile devices.

With widgets on a mobile, I'd like to:
1)Select the widget from my phone menu.
1a)(Optional) enter zip code or city information
2)Read current temp and hour-by-hour all together.

I think the difference, even if it's only one step saved, is quite welcome in the mobile area. Phones are not the speediest processors of our multimedia requests. It seems to take forever just to load a browser and get a google page up. Any steps taken to alleviate the process and reduce input seem to be a great way to go. Widgets could help out there quite a bit by taking the overhead of the browser away from the user and just focusing on the activity at hand.

I like have a browser to browse the web of course, but when I think to myself "Should I walk home from work today, or take the bus?" on my way out the door, I want that answer quickly.

Of course, I could use Google SMS, but you get the point- the more activity centered tools we have at our disposal, the better.