Rachit and Adit Shukla of Two Toasters gave a presentation about UI/UX best practices for building location based apps. What UI elements are most important for location based apps, and how do they work together? What types of user experience should we be building for?

1. UI/UX PATTERNS FOR LBS
APPS

2. Who are we?

3. Why are we here?
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4. What’s the Process we use?
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5. Location Based Search: Point-based vs.
Geofenced?
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6. Location Based Search: Automatic vs. Manual?
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7. Location Based Search Examples
Point-
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Ness Path
Manual Automatic
Kayak Groupon
Geofenced

8. How can I use a Map in a Location Based Search? -
Annotations
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9. How can I use a Map in a Location Based Search? - Overlays
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10. Map Examples
CityPockets –
Stamped – Single Contextual Yipit – Data Rich Target – Simple

11. How do I display location information?
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12. Display Location Examples
BiteHunter –
Yelp – Address NYC Embark – Time Seamless – Miles Directional

13. How can I filter results?
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14. Filter Examples
Airbnb – Simple Viator – List Based

15. What do I do in a Check-in?
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16. Check-in Examples
Path – Share Gowalla – Tag
Publicly Foursquare – Photo People

17. How do I geotag something?
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18. Geotag Examples
Yahoo – Draw Reminders – Predefined
Yelp – Radius Geofence Geofence

19. Resources
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