It seems so obvious that tap targets on mobile devices should be discreet tappable regions on the screen. But sadly that’s not always the case, even on mobile websites and apps from major content creators. One of the main uses…
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Float Mobile Symposium at Techweek 2012
Yesterday I attended the Float Mobile Symposium at Techweek 2012 and heard a few interesting speakers. Here are my notes: Designing for Device Independence Size on-screen elements using physical units (points), and not pixels. Differences in pixel density make pixel-based…
HoverBar for iPad
Some tech products just look so sexy. That’s how I feel about HoverBar from Twelve South, a really sharp add-on that uses a clamp to attach your iPad to an iMac, another external monitor, or a table top. I first…
HCI 530: Usability Issues for Handheld Devices
I just completed my latest DePaul University graduate HCI course: Usability Issues for Handheld Devices. I want to share one of the papers I wrote, a brief survey of automotive telematics and the associated usability issues and related regulatory frameworks.…
Tagged with: Mobile, Telematics
Posted in Graduate School, Interaction Design, Mobile, Research, Usability
Posted in Graduate School, Interaction Design, Mobile, Research, Usability
Adobe Shadow Device Mirroring
I recently started using a new tool for testing website designs across different mobile device screens without the hassle of having to refresh each browser I’m using. Adobe Shadow is a free tool from Adobe that allows you to mirror…
Luke Wroblewski on Mobile Inputs
This week I attended Luke Wroblewski’s day-long workshop on Mobile Inputs at the UX Immersion 2012 conference. Here are my notes: Mobile Input Controls New mobile inputs are not just disruptive — They introduce completely new ways of doing things…
Tagged with: Design, Mobile, Usability
Posted in Conferences, Gestural Interfaces, Interaction Design, Lean UX, Mobile, Prototyping, Sketching, User Experience
Posted in Conferences, Gestural Interfaces, Interaction Design, Lean UX, Mobile, Prototyping, Sketching, User Experience
Mobile UX Design With Rachel Hinman
This week I attended Rachel Hinman’s day-long workshop on The Mobile Frontier at the UX Immersion 2012 conference. The conference, a new gathering arranged by User Interface Enginnering, featured deep dives on mobile and agile development. Here are my notes:…
Tagged with: Design, Mobile, Usability
Posted in Conferences, Gestural Interfaces, Interaction Design, Lean UX, Mobile, Prototyping, Sketching, User Experience
Posted in Conferences, Gestural Interfaces, Interaction Design, Lean UX, Mobile, Prototyping, Sketching, User Experience
Respect Users’ Data
One of the immutable tenets of designing mobile user experiences is to respect (and protect) your users’ data. This means, among other things, saving form data as users move from screen to screen and eliminating the need for them to…
Target Brand On Target Across Platforms
A recent discussion at work about how responsive web design could lead to brand consistency across platforms by repurposing and restyling shared content in a device-appropriate way got me thinking about how companies ensure common brand treatments in our multi-device…
Safari Reader Improves Mobile Browsing
One of the little-mentioned features in Apple’s new iOS 5 is the addition of Reader in Mobile Safari. Reader, which was introduced in desktop Safari last year, allows a user to click a button in the browser address bar to…
Tagged with: Apple, Design, iPhone, Mobile, Usability
Posted in Interaction Design, Mobile, Usability, User Experience
Posted in Interaction Design, Mobile, Usability, User Experience
