1. Trending Time
on Google Glass
See what everyone's buzzing about

2. Hi! I’m @jasonsalas.
● Product manager, news
anchor, college football
analyst, filmmaker
● Co-author of Designing
& Developing for
Google Glass
● That Guy who likes
Godfather: Part III best

3. Speaking of sequels...
● Trending Time started as a
data-driven watch face
Slides | Code | App
● I enjoy expressing ideas over
multiple platforms
● Teaching the “sibling rivalry”
differences in Google’s
wearable UX

4. How do we build as wearable devs?
Image credit: Android Central

5. Porting a wearable app

6. Porting a wearable app

7. Surfacing data is only half the equation

8. Problem: content without context
● Users need to review items causing a trend
● Glass isn’t suited for drilling-down at the
pace of social engagement
○ Can’t keep up, not real time
○ Complex UIs, not microinteraction-oriented
● Existing mobile platforms do this wonderfully
○ Don’t reinvent the wheel

9. Solution: handing-off
Image credit:
http://imgarcade.com/1/track-baton-handoff/

10. Solution: handing-off
● Display trending topics in a GDK live card
○ Persistent, accessible, auto-updated, low impact
● Emulate Android Wear’s Open on Phone
● View tweets on more-capable platforms
○ Paired smartphone
○ Desktop browser
○ Glass browser

11. (Most people don’t dig the Glass browser)

12. Usage flow
Glassware Flow Designer

13. What makes this work?
Pushbullet API

14. Tapping web services (literally)
GDK authentication

15. Scenario 1: paired phone

16. Scenario 1: paired phone

17. Scenario 1: paired phone

18. Scenario 1: paired phone

19. Scenario 2: desktop Chrome

20. Scenario 2: desktop Chrome

21. Scenario 2: desktop Chrome

22. Scenario 3: Glass browser

23. Scenario 3: Glass browser

24. ● Producing great wearable software means
knowing when not to use the wearable
● The best wearable apps creatively offload
processing to other platforms
○ And you can do this with presentation, too!
Takeaways

25. Roadmap
● Format topics as a
glanceable tag
cloud
● User-defined
trending regions
● Contextual inputs
● Send to TV action

26. Take it for a spin!
github.com/jasonsalas/TrendingTimeForGlass

27. WaterLogg for Wear WaterLogg for Glass
More cross-platform wearable apps

28. Our go-to guide for
mastering the
wearable UX
Much more where that came from

29. #thankYou
@jasonsalas || google.com/+JasonSalas