The document discusses various techniques for designing mobile applications, including:
- Drawing app ideas and wireframes on paper before implementing them digitally.
- Considering human interface guidelines, the user experience, and what users can realistically do within a short time frame using one thumb.
- Defining the app purpose and intended users through traditional UX methods like site maps and identifying key nouns and verbs.
- Designing for mobile users rather than just mobile devices, such as allowing landscape orientation.
- Understanding the user's situational context in terms of where they are, who they're with, what they're doing, and when, and ensuring the app provides a useful result for that context.
2. Big Design, Small Screen
• Get some gray sharpies and
• App Idea
tracing paper.
• DRAW
• Error state: what happens when
• HIGs - Human Interface Guidelines
something goes wrong?
(Apple)
• Can user do “x” with two minutes
• User Experience Guidelines (Apple)
and one thumb?
• Who is this app for?
• Draw it 3 times before going to the
• The device doesn’t know what to do
computer.
until you tell it.
• Design for the mobile user, not the
mobile device.
• Turn the app sideways; literally.
• Turn the app sideways; not literally.
• What do we know about the user?
• They are SOMEWHERE with
SOMEONE engaged in SOMETHING
at some TIME, and they expect a
result.
• Define app w/ traditional UX
methods.
• Site Map/User Flow
• Nouns and Verbs
• Do it once, then do it again and
6. Developers are from Vulcan,
Designers are from Wonderland
Meyers Briggs Type Indicator
Dichotomies:
Extraversion
(E)
(I)
Introversion
Sensing
(S)
(N)
Intuition
Thinking
(T)
(F)
Feeling
Judging
(J)
(P)
Perception
Spock (Developer): ISTJ
Alice (Designer):
ENFP
7. Spock to Alice: Alice to Spock:
• Brainstorming session • Design conversation in a
• Users goals structured way
• Qualitative and emotive details • Frame within context of the
• Show how specific parts relate project requirements
to overall whole • Back up research or data
• Show different examples • Snow how larger pieces breaks
• Show a prototype down into details
• Talk about it in person • Show examples of similar
patterns on the target platform
• If pictures or talking isn't
working, try words
8. In general: 7 Suggestions:
• Explain yourself 1.Respect
• Ask questions 2.Dance to the same beat
• Listen after you ask the 3.Communicate
questions 4.Think global
• Look at it form the other 5.Show me yours...
person’s perspective 6.Sh*t happens
• Don't take it personally 7.Lather rinse and repeat
• Assume best intentions
9. Do’s and Don’ts of
Cross-Platform Mobile Design
Do share
Do stay true
Don't share to share
Don't overdue branding
Do rest (API)
Don’t neglect presentation
Don't back down
Popular cross platform tools:
• Titanium
• Mono
• PhoneGap
• Xamarin
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