The author takes a look at state retention across platforms, and delineates best practices.

1. The state of state.
Product Development Insights Conference
Friday 30 March 12
@tyahma
An argument for why applications and web
sites should represent the last-seen view
when a user returns.

2. The state of state
If you leave your bed messy . . .
You have gone to work. You have left your
bed in a state of disarray. When you return.

3. You expect it to stay
messy.

4. This is unnatural
behavior.

5. Why do I want the
settings page when
I open Google
Voice?

6. Take me where I was.

7. This application was bombing in iOS5.
Critical state fails.

8. Feed readers.

9. Who made the bed?

10. You expect it to stay
messy.

11. Who is doing it
right?

12. Instapaper is
pitch perfect.
I am where I was.

13. Chrome: Just as I left
it when reopened.

14. Don’t follow the
concept off of a cliff.

15. This isn’t exactly
where I left off, but
there is context

16. Constraints include
device memory
and laziness.

17. Organizing
principles for state
in web products:
Framework
retention

18. Organizing
principles
for state in
mobile
products:
persistence
out of the
app.

19. Organizing
principles for state
in iTV products.
Same as mobile.

20. What is the cost of
user frustration?

21. When talking about
state in your companies,
lay some groundwork.

22. If you leave your car
doors open, they
should stay open.
Thank you. I am here all week. Tell your friends.