Mobile Content Discoverability

Discoverability Marketing your mobile content Prepared for Social Media Club of KC by Little Springs Design 22 June 2010

You have mobile content... Now what? 2

Who am I? Mobile UX 3

Barbara Ballard In the beginning • Phones • Web • Services • <brands> 4

Barbara Ballard More recently • Little Springs Design • Designing the Mobile User Experience • Design For Mobile http:// www.design4mobile.com • <brands> 5

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Discoverability Are app stores enough? 7

App stores as discovery App stores! • Easy to get in • Revenue sharing • “Open” • Discoverable 8

App stores as discovery App stores? • Easy to get in (maybe) • Revenue sharing (smaller) • “Open” –(not really) • Discoverable (for a while) 9

App stores as discovery Walled garden 10

App stores as discovery Gates in the garden wall 11

Discoverability Beyond app stores 12

Beyond app stores App stores • 200,000 apps • Dozens of stores • Not social • Have to be searching • Weak recommendation engines 13

Beyond app stores Discovery engines • Recommendation engines • Social, somewhat • Passive and active discovery 14

Beyond app stores Onto the wall 15 Joe Pemberton

Beyond app stores Onto the table Samantha Herdman 16

Beyond app stores Onto the building? 17

Beyond app stores Onto the street Augmented reality 18

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Beyond app stores The Weather Channel Mobile Web 3.0 Concept of Design Document S Out of the app A Architecture & Design > v Maximized Page 1 Wrapper elements The wrapper is the set of elements that surround the content on a set of pages. It is not precisely the template, but items • Share this, like that are reusable from page to page. Weather.com 66202 this, Tweet this, home is consistent onbranding The masthead after the page, and has all pages Section > Page Title 168x28 and the current location as a field the user text this, emailselect. This does not get knownon can entry unless the page has no focus 6:1 Med Ad Unit this,... location. Page content... If titles are short enough to support it, add ...page content the section title to the page. Sections will show only the one title. This is not a • Apps and web clickable breadcrumb. Send this page to a friend 0 Weather.com Home Advertising is slightly larger than currently * Add this page to Home * Remove used, and aligned to the right to clarify that it is not the same as the core (left- # Up to [Section] aligned) content. Help Settings Below the content are a set of links visible Send us your comments on all maximized portlets. The links available Use metric units on administrative pages are not the same. Ver en español Each of these will be preceeded with an 168x28 icon, and a label for the accesskey, if 6:1 Med Ad Unit available. Actions should be included when ©1995-2008 The Weather Channel the link is not clear, or if it acts as a switch Interactive, Inc. to the current page. Left Right The category list, or a sitemap, is not visible on each page. 20

Beyond app stores Oh yeah. Banners. • Better click-through rate than desktop • Match your ad network to your brand 21

Beyond app stores Principles • The URL works (no • Apps support social & matter the context) physical • Web supports apps • Reduce barriers to content • SMS supports web • Social works with Web & SMS 22

You have mobile content... Market it 23

Barbara Ballard Little Springs Design 1901 Massachusetts, Suite B Lawrence, Kansas 66046 United States www.littlespringsdesign.com www.design4mobile.com barbara@littlespringsdesign.com @barbaraballard www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraballard +1 785 . 838 . 3003 24

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