Designing the Ultimate User Experience
- 2. • Design lead and Sr UI/UX Architect, Professional Services, Appcelerator • Digital Media Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, CE • Office hours
- 5. • Filters • Pattern-Hungry • Rooted in Extremes
- 6. • The in-action refinement and optimization of hindsight • We know what we need today to help us understand what we will need tomorrow • We live in a time where it is extremely convenient to collect and connect data
- 8. • Apps, like any product, are experience packages • We must consider end-to-end • From chemistry, to ingredients, to recipe, to cake (is not a lie), to delivery, to nomnomnom
- 9. • Necessary convergence in technology, where convenience meets resources, but we aren’t yet resource limitless • Personal user comfort and usability testing
- 12. • Understanding the problems of others helps us gain insight in to the human condition • The more we do this, the better we are at spotting patterns; learning what people fundamentally want and need • Ask questions
- 13. • In user-centric design, you must consider the user, each step of the way • Enrich with value • Keep it authentic and honest • User value (needs), profiles, and stories help us to define the overall, core experience
- 14. • Mobility has made technology very personal • Driven by convenience and truly unique experiences • Users are now more aware than ever before
- 15. • Asymmetrical balance between familiarity and innovation • Skeuomorphism and real life, material metaphors • Compliment with concierge-like services and mechanisms
- 16. • An awesome experience does not equate to success • Investing in awesome experience is always a positive for the user • Average-to-poor user experience will continue to have an ever- increasing, negative impact on business success
- 19. • Design for mobility, first • Consider product target platforms • Asymmetrical balance of mainstays and new stuff • Preventing design compromise should be a super high priority
- 20. • Avoid data and context overload • Make content meaningful and accessible to what the user is currently doing and what they currently need • Navigation and interaction will be largely dictated and influenced by core experience
- 21. • We should always strive for fun and memorable experiences • Constantly reinforce the pleasure that is derived from inputs and outputs
- 23. • Increased flexibility • Platform-specific • Improved differentiation
- 24. • Interaction commitment • CLEARLY identify primary contexts, secondary contexts, and detail contexts • Avoid primary/secondary and detail cross-context • The path should be simple to traverse in either direction
- 25. • Visualize information architecture and design into a format that a user can understand • How can we allow for the interesting display of and interaction with data? • These are the more obvious opportunities
- 29. • …not equal • …limited • …diverse, offering opportunities to learn
- 30. • Make platform the star • The platform is your go-to-guy out in the field • Empower the platform to successfully deliver consistently awesome experiences to your customers
- 31. • Experience equality is providing the best experience possible, given the constraints of the environment • Everyone is accountable for platform experience
- 32. • Closely study platform user interface guidelines • Not every documented convention is best for every experience; known or unknown • Break some rules