Designing For Offline

Designing for
Oﬄine Experiences
Designing for Oﬄine Experiences @strevat

I’m Steven Trevathan.
Head of Design at Mariana
@strevat

Context

Traveling with limited connection

You may have low battery

Prepaid plan

Orbiters

Commuting to work

Vacationing with family

Trying to process a payment

Product

Offline First.
http://alistapart.com/article/offline-first
&
offlinefirst.org

Borrows from Mobile First &
Responsive Design methodologies

- design for the most challenging and
constrained environments

- progressively enhance the experience
for fully connected environments

1) Oﬄine experiences improve
speed and enjoyment in high-
connectivity centers

2) Oﬄine experiences are
accessible and dependable in
low-to-no connectivity centers

3) Oﬄine experiences improve average
user experiences by simply being a
universally dependable product.

Dependability

It can’t be an after thought

oﬄinestat.es

What works?

Focus on your core interaction.

Respond Optimistically?
~tread lightly~

Placeholder/Skeleton UI
~the shape of content to come~

Take it seriously.

Your product will work.

Your customers are happy because
their product works.

A better UX will come with it, giving
the product contour and making it
more forgivable by better setting
expectations with users.

Process

You will still design your
experiences centered around your
core interactions and core value

Your process isn’t changing,
save for one leading question.

How should our core product
value be experienced oﬄine?

Like Mobile First & Responsive
Design, you make it part of your
contextual design process

- reliable

- consistent

- fast

- higher valued

Community

Quarterly Oﬄine UXDC Collaboratives

Slack
offlinefirst.org/chat
Offline Newsletter
offlinefirst.org/news
Medium
medium.com/offline-camp

Art by Bruce Riley
https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/17036157@N03/sets

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