Decoding design(ers) tinkerform
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The document discusses the evolution of Android from its inception in 2003 to its widespread usage today, highlighting its impact on entrepreneurship and accessibility for over 2 billion users. It emphasizes the challenges faced by designers and developers in collaborating effectively, revealing significant communication gaps and workflow issues. The conclusion suggests establishing design and technology jams to bridge these gaps and improve the integration of design with technology.
Decoding design(ers) tinkerform
- 4. When they come together...
- 10. Let’s talk about Android
- 11. Android - A timeline 2003 Andy Rubin: smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner’s location and preferences. 2005 Google acquires Android. The decision was made to use Linux as the basis for the Android OS, and that also meant that Android itself could be offered to third-party mobile phone manufacturers for free. 2007 Eric Schmidt : Today’s announcement is more ambitious than any single ‘Google Phone’ that the press has been speculating about over the past few weeks. Our vision is that the powerful platform we’re unveiling will power thousands of different phone models. 2017 2 Billion+ People using the Android Platform ~2017 Designing/Developing for the next billion
- 12. Because of Android, 2 Billion people, from the city to the villages, access financial institution, healthcare services, information, education, news, commerce, work management tools, entertainment & more!
- 13. An Anecdote : Impact at the baseline There’s always a top and then there’s a baseline. Some people try to raise the bar at the top and take science, arts etc forward. Then you have people working at the baseline. If you take the baseline up by the slightest notch, you have elevated the status of humanity.
- 14. I think Android has been elevating the humanity baseline successfully over the years and it’ll continue to do so. People sitting in this room have played a hand in THIS. An Anecdote : Impact at the baseline
- 15. Android has fueled Entrepreneurship Out of all the time I have worked with startups (around 30-40) over the last few years, almost all of them started with Android. It’s the best testbed for the validation of an idea.
- 16. The complexity that comes with Android! It takes so long to optimize it for so many devices & resolutions!
- 17. The complexity that comes with Android! Then research shows that people don’t lift their thumbs beyond the bottom one third part. WTF! We had to invent a “lifesaver” button at the bottom.
- 18. The complexity that comes with Android! Then there’s the UI pattern claimers that demand us to use such and such patterns in such and such way. What if my context demands a new UI pattern? What if I can use it to solve a unique problem?
- 19. Experience with Developers The first time I was called to review a developed version of my design What I gave as Design What I got called to review...
- 20. Experience with Developers It kept on going the same way for every project ,except a few times. In the meantime, my Design skills were improving but what finally reached to the people was not what I wanted What I gave as Design What I got called to review...
- 21. Experience with Developers Only recently I spoke to few devs, yaar what problems do you face while working with designers? And then she started with… you guys don’t manage your assets well; i am expected to extract them at times when i don’t even know your tools; you keep on using new colors outside of the palette - every new design has a different shade of grey; if it’s a global product you don’t tell us how it supposed to look for other languages; you don’t give us design for all resolutions; you don’t even know what constraints dev has; you design fancy stuff and then we are given little time to code it; you upload design and don’t notify us; you come only at the final review stage; sometime the design changes in between & we are still expected to deliver on the deadline; sometimes the product guy comes and says oh i don’t like this change this; you don’t give us animations; you don’t give us all states; you don’t give us the error screen; i have to do parts of your work along with building the functionality and getting the data on the screen!!!
- 22. Experience with Developers So I went on a guilt trip for a few hours… I was like fuck! i have been making developer’s life so difficult for so long. knowingly or unknowingly.
- 23. The barrier between Designers & Developers That’s when I figured {it was really a no brainer by then!} there such a huge divide between tech and design. We don’t even know each other well. We solve problems for others but we aren’t able to solve the ones among us? I think this should be the biggest agenda on any designer or developer table right now.
- 24. I think it boils down to acknowledging 3 things: Design & Development learning Silos Tools Dialogue The barrier between Designers & Developers
- 25. Beyond the barrier How would we interact with AI? How would we interact with context aware solutions? How would we interact with self driving cars? How would we make technology assisting the ones who really need it {inclusion}. How would we deal with the issue of ethics? How would we deal with virtual spaces immersive than reality? How would we solve the problems arising by time spent with screens?
- 26. Let’s start with... Design & Technology Jams. A Tool that bridges the handoff gap.
- 27. Prakrithy Pradeep prakrithy@tinkerform.com Co-founder, Co-chair and Program Director, Hexagon Bangalore Faculty, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology | UXR, Tinkerform Vivek Sahi vivek@tinkerform.com Co-founder, Tinkerform