Web Intents/Actions - UX Challenges

Glenn JonesWeb Intents Design Push – Brighton, UK25 Feb 2012

Web Intents/Actions UX Challenges

I encourage everyone working on web actions to focus on user

motivations and their experience on your site first and foremost.

Tantek Çelik - http://tantek.com/2011/220/b1/web-actions-a-new-building-block

Social Proof

Just an idea!

Just an idea!

Just an idea!

Social Proof

• Is losing social proof an issue?• Is it just an issue for like/share?• Can we provide social proof for web intents?• What patterns of social proof would work with

web intents?

Authoring experiencefor publisher

Progressive enhancement to aid adoption

How do we replace one with the otherwithout breaking people’s sites

If web intents = false

else

Progressive enhancement

• What if the verb/action is not supported• How can we mix and match• How can we enhance the user experience

once web intents are available in a browser

Thank you

@glennjoneshttp://glennjones.net

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