What you can Learn from a 4 Year Old about Ponies and Mobile UX

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“People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,”Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tocaboca/5523596357/

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Project One:Brewer’s Web RelaunchResponsive Web Design

Create a desktop and mobileUser Experience that capturesthe lifestyle of the brand

Allows users to participate in contests and give-a-ways easily regardless of platform

Optimized site elements for mobile

Project Two:Mobile AppPush Promotions

Brand related games

Create a User Experience that captures the lifestyle of the brand

App to update content seamlessly for the user

Users:Mobile

Using app in various settings

Specifically bars & outdoor events

Out with friends

My Little Pony copyright Hasbro Toy Company

Solution:

Substitute content with ponies

deep dive

Find out everything you can about ponies.

Each pony is unique.(personal i ty and behavior)

Just like your Users

“People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,”Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tocaboca/5523596357/

11 - 6 - 4

13 - 9 - 7Born during

evolving techtechnology is gesture based

Born 1 year before the iPhone

Mobile UX is a balancing act

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constraints

andbehaviour

s

capabilities

and needs

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fitts’s law

Fitts's Law is a model of human movement which predicts the time required to rapidly move to a target area a function of the distance to the target and the size of the target.source: Wikipedia

Small Touch Target = Big Problems

Small Touch Target = Big Problems

Sources: Apple HIG & MIT Touch Lab

Small Touch Target = Big Problems

Small Touch Target = Big Problems

Pro Tip: A Touch Template helps design Interactions

Touch Zones: LukeW

Touch Zones: LukeW

If it looks like a button, it better be a button.

skeuomorph vs. flat

Sources: Apple Developer HIG

DON’T

Keeping the Child in Mind: Press versus Tap

Keeping the Child in Mind: Press versus Tap

onRelease vs. onPress

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Simple solutions are elegant.

You will never hear, “Hey, where’s the slide out menu?”

You will hear, “Your menu doesn’t work! #fail”

content

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NaturalRecall

Performance is Design

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performance is design

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Test in the Wild

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Test in the Wild

Drop the WiFi

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Test in the Wild

Test using “one bar”

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Help the Sad Butterfly Find the Ponies

If a 4 year old can find the ponies

so can your user

Thank you!

Questions?

@andrewsmyk