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Trending Time on Google GlassSee what everyone's buzzing about
Hi! I’m @jasonsalas.● Product manager, news
anchor, college football analyst, filmmaker
● Co-author of Designing & Developing for Google Glass
● That Guy who likes Godfather: Part III best
Speaking of sequels...
● Trending Time started as a data-driven watch face
Slides | Code | App
● I enjoy expressing ideas over multiple platforms
● Teaching the “sibling rivalry” differences in Google’s wearable UX
How do we build as wearable devs?
Image credit: Android Central
Porting a wearable app
Porting a wearable app
Surfacing data is only half the equation
Problem: content without context
● Users need to review items causing a trend● Glass isn’t suited for drilling-down at the
pace of social engagement○ Can’t keep up, not real time○ Complex UIs, not microinteraction-oriented
● Existing mobile platforms do this wonderfully○ Don’t reinvent the wheel
Solution: handing-off
Image credit: http://imgarcade.com/1/track-baton-handoff/
Solution: handing-off
● Display trending topics in a GDK live card○ Persistent, accessible, auto-updated, low impact
● Emulate Android Wear’s Open on Phone● View tweets on more-capable platforms
○ Paired smartphone○ Desktop browser○ Glass browser
(Most people don’t dig the Glass browser)
Usage flow
Glassware Flow Designer
Tapping web services (literally)
GDK authentication
Scenario 1: paired phone
Scenario 1: paired phone
Scenario 1: paired phone
Scenario 1: paired phone
Scenario 2: desktop Chrome
Scenario 2: desktop Chrome
Scenario 2: desktop Chrome
Scenario 3: Glass browser
Scenario 3: Glass browser
● Producing great wearable software means knowing when not to use the wearable
● The best wearable apps creatively offload processing to other platforms○ And you can do this with presentation, too!
Takeaways
Roadmap
● Format topics as a glanceable tag cloud
● User-defined trending regions
● Contextual inputs● Send to TV action
Take it for a spin!
github.com/jasonsalas/TrendingTimeForGlass
WaterLogg for Wear WaterLogg for Glass
More cross-platform wearable apps
Our go-to guide for mastering the wearable UX
Much more where that came from
#thankYou@jasonsalas || google.com/+JasonSalas
