3. Nick Finck
Blue Flavor
‣ Principal & Director of User Experience
‣ Over 15 years of experience working in the web field
‣ Has worked with Adobe, Boeing, CBS, Cisco, CitiGroup,
Comcast, Fandango, FDIC, HP, IBM, and Microsoft
‣ Co-organized and curated more than 10 national and
international web conferences & events
‣ BlueFlavor.com
‣ Judged the Webby’s and several other web awards
‣ NickFinck.com
‣ Founder of Digital Web Magazine
‣ Google “Nick”
‣ Expertise in information architecture, interaction design,
and user research
4. Outline
‣ Some bullshit about me
‣ Re-thinking computing
‣ Some technical examples
‣ A deep dive into mobile
‣ Really cool shit
20. “ In ergonomics, Fitts's law is a model of
human movement which predicts the time
required to rapidly move to a target area,
as a function of the distance to the target
and the size of the target.”
Description of Fitts’s Law
Wikipedia
24. Developing for the Mobile Context
• XHTML
✓ Well formed
✓ Semantically correct
✓ Highly optimized
• CSS
✓ Handheld media type (sometimes even screen media type)
✓ Highly optimized
25. http://nytimes.com http://app.getleaflets.com/nyt/
NYTimes.com NY Times on Leaflet
Minimum 30 Seconds to lo load 796kb Maximum of 7 seconds to lo load 30kb
plus requests to multiple servers