In this study, Joseph Dickerson, User Experience Architect at Fortune 500 company Fiserv, details how users engage with their mobile devices everyday and discusses representative personas that reflect this usage.
4. Some comments from one of our interview subjects
I love my phone, it does everything I
need it to do.
I could not think about using another
one.
Its perfect for me.
Talking about an iPhone? Or another
smart phone?
No.
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5. On Mobile Devices
Acceptable Experiences vs. Rich Experiences
History dont repeat, but it sure does rhyme. Mark Twain
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6. On Mobile Devices
Identified three primary device types
≒ Dumb Phones
≒ Not-so-smart phones
≒ Smart phones
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12. Design Criteria
Support the Immediacy of Now
Support legacy devices
Follow device design standards
Support Fitts Law
First, do no harm
Content matters
Make it appealing and useful to increase repeatability
Provide downloadable apps that (securely) cache data
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