I attended Webstock 2010 held in Wellington in mid Feb. So inspired by the conference, I did a presentation about it at my work Redvespa Consultants. This is the material for my presentation. The first 8 slide is done by Warren who attend the mobile design workshop, and the rest of it was drew from my memory and 60 pages note. Enjoy.

1. Webstock
Day 1 – social networking, facebook, group-think, interactions
Day 2 – entrepreneurship and start-up learnings
Sites of interest
www.webstock.org.nz
www.mobiledesign.org
www.nzherald.co.nz keyword ‘webstock’
Rives:
www.shopliftwindchimes.com
www.ted.com/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons.html

2. Designing Mobile Experiences

3. Stages of Mobile Experience Design

4. Balance
Business Goals
Technical Goals
Sweet Spot
Mobile channels need to
use all 3 learning types:
User Goals
- Kinesthetic
(hand-eye movement)
- visual
- auditory

5. Considerations – mobile vs non-mobile
- The time the user has
- Data charges
- Speed and rendering time  efficiency of interfaces (websites have got
lazy)
- Screen size
- Main principle – keeping things simple

6. Devices
Average project is USD 40k per device per project
Mobile: not just cellphones and iphones – also e-readers, tablets, and
household devices with sim cards
Porting: PC  iphone  Android etc etc  costs$!
Can’t support everything

7. E-Readers
Changing form factor – short ownership period
Kindle
One device, owned for a longer period, but different APPS updated over tim
iPad

11. "Fall in love with something
that is made with love"
- Mike Brown

17. Yes, we can!!!

18. Design a website that can
have a conversation with
your users.

23. Why build a start-up?

24. To change the world

25. Build a organization of last
value

26. Make customers life better

27. 3 shallow believes

28. We know what customers want

29. We can accurately predict
future

30. Advancing the plan is progress

32. Getting the feedback and build
the expectation of changing
- Daniel Burka

33. Do not waste time predict
everything

34. Listen to your user

35. Got it out there, add
sophistications later and keep
revisiting

37. Software should be up-lifting
- Amy Hoy

38. It’s all about U!!!

40. Note the evenly distributed
streams of water down both
the front and back of my
shirt. This is a skill you just
can't practice
- Mike Davidson

42. 10 tips for entrepreneurs

43. Hack the press

44. Connect with the community

45. Leverage your user base to
spread the word

46. Analyze your traffic