Michael Lowry, Design Director of Mobile at Fidelity Investments, presented "Every Screen is a Touchscreen" at Harvard ABCD's May 8th 2013 meeting. Summary: The era of the mouse and desktop is quickly fading yet many designers are still approaching user interfaces with dated design principles and patterns. Designers now need to account for a multitude of new device types and input methods. Michael exposes some of the complexities and opportunities of this new world and suggest that assuming all screens are touchscreens is a necessary first-step to a successful web design.

1. All Screens are
Touch Screens

2. Michael Lowry
Mobile Design Director, Fidelity Investments

4. Touch
Driven

5. Touch
Driven
Pointer
Driven

6. Touch & Pointer
Driven

7. Touch & Pointer
Driven

9. “We’ve done
tons of user
testing on this”

10. “and it turns
out it doesn’t
work”

11. “after an extended period
of time, your arm wants
to fall off”

14. Why Apple Will Never Ship a Touchscreen
MacBook

15. Steve Jobs: Touchscreen Laptops Don’tWork

16. Why ‘Gorilla Arm Syndrome’ Rules Out
Multitouch Notebook Displays

17. Touch
Driven
Pointer
Driven

20. Daria Loi
UX Innovation Manager @ Intel

24. Touch No Touch

25. ✓Change settings
✓Create PPT slide
✓Write email
✓Browse
✓Search
✓Online purchase
✓Video calling
✓Crop image
Touch No Touch

27. Hybrid Devices

33. Tablet Convertible Traditional

34. Appropriate Targets Varied Environment
Simple GesturesMinimize Typing
1 2
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35. Appropriate Targets Varied Environment
Simple GesturesMinimize Typing
2
43

36. Appropriate Targets Varied Environment
Simple GesturesMinimize Typing
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37. Appropriate Targets Varied Environment
Simple GesturesMinimize Typing
4

38. Appropriate Targets Varied Environment
Simple GesturesMinimize Typing

41. Primary Control Location

42. Tiny Icon Targets
Tight Spacing
Primary Control Location
Tiny Text Targets

43. Tiny Icon Targets
Tight Spacing
Primary Control Location
Tiny Text Targets
Required Typing

44. Tiny Icon Targets
Tight Spacing
Primary Control Location
Tiny Text Targets
Required Typing
Lots of Scrolling

45. Financial Times

46. Financial Times

47. Do

48. Do

49. Quartz

50. Quartz

51. Pulse

52. Pulse

53. WageWorks

54. WageWorks

55. Deloitte GA

56. BootMetro

57. Fusion

59. Microsoft Store

60. Microsoft StoreJosh Clark

61. Microsoft StoreJosh ClarkLuke Wrorkerlubski?

62. Microsoft StoreJosh ClarkLuke Wrorkerlubski?Evan Gerber

63. pointer

64. voice
touch
pointer

65. voice
neuromuscular
gestures
devices
ocular
brainwaves
touch
pointer

66. Maxims

67. My users will have a choice of
input methods...
Maxims

68. My users will have a choice of
input methods...
Their devices will be biased toward
one of those methods.
Maxims