Mobile user experience is a new frontier. Untethered from a keyboard and mouse, this rich design space is lush with opportunity to invent new and more human ways for people to interact with information. Invention requires casting off many anchors and conventions inherited from the last 50 years of computer science and traditional design and jumping head first into a new and unfamiliar design space.
In this talk, Rachel will provide:
Insight into how designers and UX professionals can navigate the unfamiliar and fast-changing mobile landscape with grace and solid thinking.
In-depth information on advanced mobile design topics UX professionals will spend the next 10+ years pioneering
Tools and frameworks necessary to begin tackling mobile UX problems in this rapidly changing design space.
5. Even in situations in which a spirit of
exploration and freedom exist, where faculty
“Hey, I’ve got this great idea for an app…”
are free to experiment to work beyond physical
and social constraints, our cognitive habits
often get in the way.
Marshall McLuhan called it “the rear-view
mirror effect,” noting that “We see the world
through a rear-view mirror. We march
backwards into the future.”!
10. Even in in situations in whichaaspirit of
Even situations in which spirit of
exploration and freedom exist, where we are
exploration and freedom exist, where faculty
free to experiment and to work beyond physical
are free to experiment work beyond physical
and social constraints,
and social constraints, our cognitive habits
our cognitive habits often get in the way.
often get in the way.
Marshall McLuhan called called it
Marshall McLuhan it “the rear-view
“the rear-viewnoting that “We noting that
mirror effect,” mirror effect,” see the world
“We see the world through a rear-view mirror.
through a rear-view mirror. We march
We march backwards intofuture.”!
backwards into the the future.”
22. Q:
“I think a lot of web design in the
past five to ten years is actually
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just a reflection of print again.
We’ve been designing for one
context, which isn’t much better
than a PDF document.”
~ Bryan Rieger
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23. Q: “Our obsession with layout
(carried over from print design)
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keeps us from seizing much
bigger opportunities on mobile.”
~ Luke Wroblewski
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28. Q: Suchman’s theory of mutual
reconfiguration suggests a person’s
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capacity to act (their agency) is
reconfigured when it comes into
contact with another thing or person -
that human action is constantly
constructed and reconstructed
from dynamic interactions with the
material and social worlds.
51. “Right now many designers end up
focusing a lot of energy on the overlying
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view – the whole template and look and
feel. But the smaller the screen gets, the
less that stuff matters.
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One of the most important things we’ve
started looking at is writing and working
with APIs rather than designing ‘pages’
for one context.”
~Stephanie Rieger
52. “For so much digital content, there is
no good metaphor to render anymore
– the content is just information, text
and images – so new approaches to
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interaction and visual UI design are
needed.”
~Mike Kruzeniski
84. Mobile Experiences Unfold
Patterns for how mobile experiences unfold
and progressively reveal their nature
1 The Nested Doll Pattern
2 The Hub and Spoke Pattern
3 The Bento Box Pattern
4 The Filtered View Pattern
89. Mobile Experiences Unfold
Patterns for how mobile experiences unfold
and progressively reveal their nature
1 The Nested Doll Pattern
2 The Hub and Spoke Pattern
3 The Bento Box Pattern
4 The Filtered View Pattern
94. “The most profound technologies
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are those that disappear.
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They weave themselves into the
fabric of everyday life until they
are indistinguishable from it.”
~ Mark Weiser
The Computer for the 21st Century
101. “I like cuddling up in bed with
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Netflix on the iPad instead of
sitting in front of the TV. It’s more
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comfortable to go to bed with a
movie the same way I used to go
to bed with a book”
~ Norbert
iPad Study Participant
102. “It’s almost like my blankie…
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I curl up in bed with it, or on the
couch. I usually have it with me,
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regardless of extenuating
circumstances ”
~ Erin
iPad Study Participant
111. Tasks are about completion…
Possibilities are interactions that
accrue over time…
111!
112. Tasks are about completion…
Possibilities are interactions that
accrue over time…
… or facilitate
exploration…
112!
113. Tasks are about completion…
Possibilities are interactions that
accrue over time…
..or are about
… or facilitate SENSING
exploration… INTENT!
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