Mobile User Experience - Inductive Design Process
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The document discusses mobile user experience (UX) design from a contextual perspective, focusing on how mobile applications integrate into users' lives. It emphasizes the importance of understanding user needs through observation and interaction rather than just soliciting their preferences. Key design principles for mobile include aesthetic integrity, consistency, direct manipulation, feedback, and user control, alongside recommended resources and design patterns.
![“don’t design [just] for yourself”
• You - Your felt experience, as a
human, can provide valuable
information
• Users – empathetic observations,
interviews, usability tests
• Experts – design patterns, design
libraries, large usability studies](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/jenshurley-mobile-ux-patterns-revised-130926113911-phpapp02/85/Mobile-User-Experience-Inductive-Design-Process-11-320.jpg)
Mobile User Experience - Inductive Design Process
- 1. Mobile UX A contextual design perspective For Titanium User Group Jen Shurley. 9.23.2013. jenshurley@gmail.com @jens_cam
- 3. Mobile as a part of someone’s life and environment
- 4. Structure of talk: iceberg • App show (concrete first) • A contextual perspective on UX design • Conversation about design patterns Webb et al 2008
- 5. Starting point: black hole to do list. David Allen - GTD Life Hacker 18 Minutes Real Simple Magazine Family art night cards
- 6. App goals • Reduce cognitive and emotional load induced by long lists of cleaning tasks • Provide randomly selected, limited choice of ridiculously easy goals • Timebox • Don’t optimize everything; choose.
- 7. Tools used • Initial Design – Mocks and Wireframes – Pen and paper. – Google docs for user stories – Adobe Illustrator – (b/c you can build mocks right on wireframes) • Moving forward – TFS for ALM (show user stories) – C#, ASP.NET, host in Azure
- 8. Tap Flow, Wireframe Low High fidelity Sketch Mockup Visual Skins
- 9. This is kind of like using design patterns…
- 10. TFS is the ALM
- 11. “don’t design [just] for yourself” • You - Your felt experience, as a human, can provide valuable information • Users – empathetic observations, interviews, usability tests • Experts – design patterns, design libraries, large usability studies
- 13. Learning about a user’s experience • Go beyond asking users “what do you want us to build?” • Notice: watch how users interact with prototypes, paper prototypes, competing products • Ask: discover their goals, values, the way they organize their thoughts on something.
- 14. Go-to questions As a Contextual Researcher • Under what conditions? • What are the different ways that people see this problem? • “Tell me more about that” (suspend bias) As a Designer • Does is make sense for this app to be simple, or should we provide a richer experience? • Is there hierarchy and differentiation? • How does the design support the function? • How do visual elements relate and work together?
- 15. Learning Resources I have found helpful • Usability.gov • Smashing magazine and ebooks • Lean UX and Lean UX for startups • Josh Clark’s Myths in Mobile presentation http://globalmoxie.com/jhc/prez/mob ile-context-myth-fowd.pdf • A List Apart books
- 16. Questions - design patterns • Your take on x design pattern • Others that are really important • Things you wish designers would take into consideration when designing for mobile
- 18. • https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/document ation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/index. html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH66-SW1 iOS design guidelines Other pattern resources & lists • http://pttrns.com/categories/25-about • http://www.youthedesigner.com/2013/01/09/10-useful-resources-where- you-can-get-best-mobile-ui-design-patterns/ • http://blog.mariuszwozniak.com/post/40090655756/top-10-mobile-ui- design-and-interaction-patterns • http://www.androidpatterns.com/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobiledesignpatterngallery/collections/
- 19. Josh Clark • Mobile Context Recap: • Mobile is not rushed or less. • Complex is not complicated. • Tap quality not tap quantity. • Focus for all platforms. • No such thing as mobile web. • Don’t think app: think service. • Metadata is the new art direction. http://justcreative.com/2011/11/07/future-of-web-design-conference- day-1-review/
- 20. Android Design Principles • – – – – • – – – – – – – – • – – – – – iOS Design Principles Aesthetic Integrity • how well an app’s appearance and behavior integrates with its function to send a coherent message. Consistency • pays attention to the standards and paradigms people are comfortable with and it provides an internally consistent experience Direct Manipulation • When people directly manipulate onscreen objects instead of using separate controls to manipulate them, they're more engaged with their task and it’s easier for them to understand the results of their actions. Feedback • Feedback acknowledges people’s actions, shows them the results, and updates them on the progress of their task. Metaphors • When virtual objects and actions in an app are metaphors for familiar experiences—whether these experiences are rooted in the real world or the digital world—users quickly grasp how to use the app. User Control • People—not apps—should initiate and control actions. An app can suggest a course of action or warn about dangerous consequences, but it’s usually a mistake for the app to take decision-making away from the user.
- 21. patterns http://uxdesign.smashingmaga zine.com/2012/04/10/ui- patterns-for-mobile-apps- search-sort-filter/ Great article about search, sort and filter with lots of examples http://uxdesign.smashingmaga zine.com/2012/06/06/design- patterns-when-breaking-rules- ok/ If I wanted to give a talk on design patterns, I would base it heavily on this! Mobile design principles http://alistapart.com/topic/mo bile-multidevice Collection of articles from respected thought leaders http://alistapart.com/article/or ganizing-mobile Luke Wroblewski’s principles for mobile