Download - User-Centric Design of Series 40 Apps
Series 40 Touch and Type Webinars 2012
UX for Location Based Services
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Overview
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• What to take into account when designing for mobile • Methods to estimate your own location • Transform technical data into information for people
• Basics • Showcase ”Radar”
• Series 40 UX design tools • Take home messages
UX considerations
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Three mobile mindsets: - bored - microtasking - local
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(Josh Clark)
Your application’s target audience is on the move, not in the comfy chair.
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Your application will be used with thumbs only.
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Use the fastest UI component, not the fanciest one.
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Do not overload your screen.
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Allow privacy.
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Location estimation
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Cell ID might not represent the nearest mobile network antenna.
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Time Difference of Arrival and Angle of Arrival require special networks.
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TDOA AOA
AOA and TDOA work indoors but always with limited precision.
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GPS might require too long time for the first fix – too long for the impatient.
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Wi-Fi triangulation can work locally indoors and with high precision.
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Landmarks and urban marks can offer precise location data.
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Dead reckoning is only as good as the initial lock and errors sum up.
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RFID tags can deliver a high accuracy for an initial lock or for refinement.
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RFID tags also work as electronic leashes.
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For other navigation methods it might be a long way into the phone.
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Combine navigation methods for fast aquiring and refining navigation.
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Showcase RADAR
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Assumptions for a new feature:
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Main use cases: - Send an image link to somebody located close to you - Choose 1 or 2 recipients out of multiple
Available data: - Dynamic distance to other people - Dynamic direction to other people - Phone connection to other people
This sounds like a Radar.
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Learn to step back and observe the whole thing. What does the user need?
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Do not overload the screen.
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Transfer raw location data into a simple context – not a fancy context.
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The left shows an area with many people, the middle shows the representation in a phone, but the phone screen is too small to show all the content and something has to be cropped, the right image shows a simple list.
Transfer raw location data into a simple context – not a fancy context.
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The left shows an area with many people, the middle shows the representation in a phone, but the phone screen is too small to show all the content and something has to be cropped, the right image shows a simple list.
Utilize relative positions and orientation to sort results.
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Tina and Jo are in front of me, so they are likely to be the ones I am interacting with, Qing and Tom are behind me, so thet are not likely to talk to me but somebody else.
Test early and often. Fail fast and cheap.
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Series 40 UX design tools
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Create high fidelity paper prototypes with Illustrator, Fireworks or Inkscape.
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Create a launcher icon for a positive first impression (AI, PS, Inkscape).
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Take a look into the style guides to maintain Series 40 look and feel.
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The UX checklist helps you avoid the most common design mistakes.
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Take home messages
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Your application’s target audience is on the move, not in the comfy chair.
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Learn to step back and observe the whole thing. What does the user need?
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Use our services to improve the overall rating of your application.
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Links
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http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Library/Design_and_UX/#!designing-for-nokia-platforms/designing-for-series-40-touch-and-type.html - Style guides - Icon creation - Stencil sets http://www.developer.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/515ca91b-1160-4841-a1f7-ca821c21b81e/UX_Checklist_for_Series_40.html - UX Checklist
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Credits
•Anne Kivimaa •Sanna Häiväläinen •Sami Ronkainen •Philip Wamsley
Thank you.
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