Topic: Mobile

Coding Prototypes, Even if You’ve Never Tried

What You’ll Learn

• The Why of jQuery Mobile
• The Accessibility of jQuery Mobile
• The Value of jQuery Mobile

Explore the Possibilities of Ultra-Contextual Design

What You’ll Learn

• Establish context for user experiences via empathy map
• Evaluate whether sensor-informed context makes sense for your users
• Use journey maps to drive sensor-informed context
• Ask for more data without alienating users

There Are No Buts in Progressive Enhancement

What You’ll Learn

• A comprehensive overview of the devices people are using
• A more precise definition of “smartphone”
• A framework to see experiences as a continuum
• A game plan to increase the accessibility and availability of your projects

When Responsive Web Design Meets the Real World

What You’ll Learn

• There is no connection between form factor and input
• We can’t detect input until someone uses it
• Aiming for “touch” as the input is a good starting point
• Designing for user needs and usage works across form factors

Rethinking Mobile Tutorials

What You’ll Learn

• How to use five simple principles to build effective tutorials
• Why sexy designs and feature-driven bells and whistles leave your users feeling unsatisfied and underserved
• Why it’s futile to tack on a tutorial after the fact, and how to use terminology and statistics to sell stakeholders on effective designs right from the start
• How to use “first time through” experiences to drive the overall voice and style of your app

Screen Time: Multi-Device Design

What You’ll Learn

• Why understanding screens—their sizes, input types, and modes of use—is necessary before designing for them
• Why awareness of big picture trends—like high resolution and widescreen—is important to content quality and layout
• How to manage thorny issues like “the fold” using vertical media queries
• How to account for multiple input types like mouse cursor, keyboard, and touch
• How to take into account different user postures, viewing distances, and environments in your designs

Mobile Research Techniques: Beyond the Basics

What You’ll Learn

• Conduct mobile research in the lab
• Do mobile research in the field
• Deepen your research with long-term studies
• Choose and use participants—for optimal results

Choosing Which Mobile Experience to Build

What You’ll Learn

• Find out why mobile is something your company can’t afford to ignore
• Hear the pros and cons of various approaches, including the implications of each
• Get key mobile stats that will give your team fuel to make better, faster UX choices
• Ask questions of your stakeholders — ones they’ll actually be able to answer

Doing “Pocket Research” to Learn About Your Users’ Lives

What You’ll Learn

• Choose the right mobile methods to answer deeper UX questions
• Set up a diary study, experience sample, and SMS and voice-based survey
• Identify physical space triggers, and use them to gather more user data
• Build research into your process without breaking the bank

Defining Your Mobile Content Strategy

What You’ll Learn

• Identify what content you want to publish on mobile versus desktop
• Create an editorial workflow that’s realistic for your team and CMS
• Edit content to make it easier to read on all devices
• Add structure to your content to make it more flexible

Adapting to Different Forms of Input

What You’ll Learn

• There is no connection between form factor and input
• We can’t detect input until someone uses it
• Aiming for “touch” as the input is a good starting point
• Designing for user needs and usage works across form factors

Dissecting Design

What You’ll Learn

• Improvise solutions—and make it a habit—right out of the gate
• Focus on the people involved, rather than the process itself
• Solve problems in whatever medium you’re most comfortable using
• Make refinements at the very end using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Mobile Behavior and Design Trends

What You’ll Learn

• What’s going to make your whole company focus on mobile
• How people interact with their mobiles device
• To think about how people are using your designs on mobile
• How you can design for this new reality and even create experiences that translate from mobile to laptop to TV

Responsive Web Design Workflow

What You’ll Learn

• Start with the content
• Establish UX flows and styles in text
• Create and present web-based mockups
• Keep styles in-check

Designing Across Devices with Progressive Enhancement

What You’ll Learn

• Create experiences without technological constraints
• Stop assuming users are just like you
• Make a content­-first approach work
• Establish a solid strategy for planning

Mobile Flowidity

What You’ll Learn

• What’s disruptive to flow in mobile design
• Why we should be thinking about experience rather than tasks
• How you can make sure your users aren’t losing flow because of things your design forces them to do or not do

Content in a Zombie Apocalypse

What You’ll Learn

• Accommodate a growing number of mobile-only audiences—and how data shows how they behave
• Fight the "every mobile user is like me" assumption that plagues mobile design
• Make content accessible, navigable, and publish-able across multiple devices
• Create a mobile content strategy that works for the people in your organization—and your users, too

Mapping Emotion to Experience

What You’ll Learn

• The unconscious side of the user experience
• How to map emotion to experience—and work it into your team’s daily practice
• Focusing on product design within the context of the customer’s life
• Why contextual research doesn’t need to be so hard

One Design to Work Everywhere

What You’ll Learn

• The reasons you don’t need separate designs for different devices
• A single framework that unifies all the variations in the computing and mobile market
• Emerging multi-device design principles, patterns, and considerations
• Common questions asked of multi- device designs—and answers, too

Organizing Mobile Web Experiences

What You’ll Learn

• How to organize your content and services for mobile users
• Why you should design for content first, navigation second
• Effective ways to layout navigation menus on mobile screens
• How to choose between multi-device design solutions like responsive design & device experiences

Solutions for A World of Countless Devices

What You’ll Learn

• Dig into responsive web design
• Consider the angle of view
• Handle touch events and hover
• Create within Carrier Controlled Constraints

First-Person User Interfaces

What You’ll Learn

• The evolution of user interfaces—from punch cards to GUIs, NUIs, and now FPUIs
• The power of navigating space and augmenting your immediate surroundings
• Apps that interact with nearby objects, locations, and people
• Components and structures used to create first-person apps

Prototyping a Responsive Design

What You’ll Learn

• Create working prototypes for multiple screens
• Show the client what they are getting and how it will work
• Reduce misfires between design and development
• Make prototyping a part of the design process

Mobile-First Responsive Design

What You’ll Learn

• Jump into responsive design for mobile
• Clean out your closet
• Make designs load faster on mobile devices
• Optimize your images for mobile viewing

Content Strategy for Mobile

What You’ll Learn

• Expand from desktop to mobile publishing
• Approach content with a mobile mindset
• Model content for awesome mobile viewing
• Maintain and govern your mobile content

UX Design in the Mobile Frontier

What You’ll Learn

• Understand the landscape of our Brave NUI World
• Consider continuity in your mobile experience design
• Achieve comfortable computing beyond the desktop

It’s a Great Time To Be a UX Designer

There’s never been a better time to be a designer. After years of wishing we’d have the recognition and appreciation for the value we bring, we’re now highly sought after for our talents and skills. A growing number of organizations have seen success through great design, from Apple to Cirque de Soleil to the White House. Others now want to get the same results. The demand for great designers has never been better.

Yet, as the proverb says, "Be careful for what you wish for, lest it become true." Now that everyone expects us to deliver great things, are we ready? While we’re presented with more opportunities than ever, we also have increased challenges.

Organizing Mobile Web Experiences

What You’ll Learn

• How to organize your content and services for mobile users
• Why you should design for content first, navigation second
• Effective ways to layout navigation menus on mobile screens
• How to choose between multi-device design solutions like responsive design & device experiences

The Enterprise Mobility Revolution

What You’ll Learn

• Ways to take advantage of four types of enterprise mobility
• The trap of creating a mobile version of your intranet
• How to identify the top things staff need from their mobile device
• Where to start when creating a next-generation enterprise mobility strategy

The Mobile Frontier

What You’ll Learn

• How to think about and create experiences that span and scale across multiple devices
• Where natural UIs go beyond what we can do with traditional graphical UIs
• Ways to traverse the chasm between gestures and mouse-based interactions
• Moving from efficiency and tasks towards providing a sense of comfort and connection

The How and Why of Responsive Web Design

What You’ll Learn

• Adopt a responsive approach to design
• Start designing flexible designs
• Manage different kinds of fixed-width media in a flexible layout
• Understand what media queries are and how you can use them
• Adapt your workflow to better accommodate a responsive product