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1. graceful degredation
• been around for awhile
• could work for some instances
• many sacrifices (from a CX perspective)
• ‘backward’ approach (?)
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2. progressive enhancement
• build up an experience from the baseline
• work in an adaptive / responsive manner
• target sizes not devices*
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“Honestly, our team is kind of
bored of talking about responsive
design. It should no longer be
considered a special feature, it’s
how any self-respecting website
should behave in 2012.”
- Bobby Solomon,
TheFoxIsBlack.com and Disney
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3. Mobile First... v.2012
• Understand your user +
• Content focus +
• Contextual relevancy +
• Progressive enhancement +
• Responsive design
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things to consider with a
Mobile First strategy:
• research is your friend
• analytics are your friend
• hardware specific features, might not be your friend
• many delivery options
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considerations:
• Mobile Web vs. Desktop Web
• Responsive Web vs. Mobile Web
• Web App vs. Native App
• Wrapped Web vs. Native App
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Native App
Wrapped Web
Web App
expensive
Desktop Web
cheap
Responsive Web
Mobile Web
basic functionality
inflexible flexible
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a true story.
A global, Mobile First approach in action!
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bullshit... kinda’!
• Agile UX could / should be the goal but...
• ‘Don’t fly a plane without wings.’
• Opportunity for ‘cornering’ and ‘redo’ is great at this stage
• “Any fidelity wireframe is the right fidelity wireframe.”
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take aways:
• Design challenge big... tech challenge not as big
• Focus on users
• Focus on context
• Mobile First
• Explore many options in wireframes
• Test, test, test!
• Consider native, wrapper, or HTML (or combo)
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workshop!
• Designing Elegant UX Across Devices and Platforms
• 9-5 Wednesday
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Erik Loehfelm
EVP of User Experience, Universal Mind
@eloehfelm
erik.loehfelm@universalmind.com