Guest lecture for QUT 1st year IT unit "IFB103 - Designing for IT" (http://goo.gl/7lr6CS) Presented by Jimmy Ti and Tony Wang

1. The Journey of
Creating Mobile Apps
Jimmy Ti
Tony Wang

2. 391 PaX
QUT Nav

3. Great design is about
making decisions
App Design!
as!
Conversations with Users
There’s a thousand “no’s”
for every “yes”

4. App Design!
as!
How do we decide?
Conversations with Users

5. App Design!
as!
Users
Conversations with Users

6. App Design!
as!
Conversations with Users
Observe

7. App Design!
as!
Conversations with Users

9. App Design!
as!
Conversations with Users
Talk to Users
(Focus group)

10. App Design!
as!
Conversations with Users

11. Thank you!
!
App Design!
as!
!
Conversations with Users
jimmy.ti@qut.edu.au
@jimmyti
Plan your killer features.

12. Sketch it on Papers

13. Transform it to High-Fidelity

14. App Design!
as!
Conversations with Users
Iterate, iterate, iterate...
(Rapid prototyping)

19. App Design!
as!
Conversations with Users
User Testing
(Usability testing)

20. User Testing
• Find 2-3 chimpanzee layperson
App Design!
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• Hand them the appwith Users
Conversations
• Watch how they use the app
• Ask them to “think aloud”

21. App Design!
as!
Conversations with Users
Dog-fooding

22. Dog-fooding
as much as
• Use the app App Design! possible
as!
ways
• In as creative as possibleUsers
Conversations with
• Find bugs
• Streamline interaction flow

23. Road to Public Releases
• 7 versions before release to public

24. It’s not an easy task
!
Worth it when you see the
App Design!
as!
smile on yourwith Users face
user’s
Conversations
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28. Thank you.