wearables europe 2015 - designing for wearables
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Designing, Testing and Collabourating with Wearable Apps
Niall Roche
@niallrocheGet in touch n.roche@ucl.ac.uk
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Mobile Developer - pretty much every platform!
Lecturer in Distributed and Mobile technologies
Tech Led at UCL Digital Business Labs
Tec Tech Trainer
Mentor at
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Wearable Web
too much content output to a tiny screen
trying get too much input - keyboards don’t work
existing mental models applied to a new interaction type
take what we have now and make it smaller
while not reducing the set of features
mindset of the designers & clients who did not understand
the limitations of the platform and how it should be used
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distill the important nugget of information
simplify and packaging appropriately
design around short focused activities without
reliance on input & scrolling, using sensible defaults
figure out how to do more with less
glances to represent small units of relevant content
think of the entire journey - wearable to device
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consider battery - offload to devices or cloud
wearables are not smaller smart phones
Context is King
use information is already known about the user and what
can be gathered about location and agenda
inputs available, angle gesture pressure
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• number of notifications and interruptions a Smart Phone
inform us about and how that has changed behaviours
• what important to that user at that moment, in that
location, in their social or work context
• otherwise it may be just a distraction
• filtering should extend beyond notifications and help to
reduce noise
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capture usage
informationinfer
behaviour
apply Machine Learning
get user preferences
adjust notification
settings
Intelligent Notifications
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#NoUI
the best design is invisible
hardware is in general harder to tweak on
the fly that software
iterations are more costly
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testing this is hard, really hard,
research is so important
Validate assumptions
metrics and analyse
in the wild testing
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Phones - Tablets - Beacons - Wearables - Smart Glasses - IoT
The largest open Device Lab in London with 300+ devices.
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why physical device labs?
remote testing can look but can't get feel remotely
mobile apps were standalone or connect to servers
increasingly they now connect to ‘things’
device compatibility, connectivity, reliability,security
network conditions, distances and interference
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dev kits and prototypes for other companies to play with it
hosting events and meetups, Wearable Wednesday
iBeacon Hackathon, bluetooth meetup groups
host your hackathon?
future of retail demonstrators and fashion
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Designing, Testing and Collabourating with Wearable Apps
Niall Roche
@niallrocheGet in touch n.roche@ucl.ac.uk
Thank You
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