Wearables Europe 2015 - Designing for Wearables
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This document discusses designing apps for wearables. It notes that wearables have limited screens and input methods, so apps need to distill important information, use defaults, and focus on short tasks without scrolling. Notifications should be context-aware and filter out irrelevant messages. Testing wearables is difficult and requires analyzing real-world usage. The UCL Digital Business Labs facility allows collaborating on and testing wearable, mobile, and IoT applications across many devices.
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Wearables Europe 2015 - Designing for Wearables
- 1. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL Designing, Testing and Collabourating with Wearable Apps Niall Roche @niallrocheGet in touch n.roche@ucl.ac.uk
- 2. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL Mobile Developer - pretty much every platform! Lecturer in Distributed and Mobile technologies Tech Led at UCL Digital Business Labs Tec Tech Trainer Mentor at
- 5. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL Wearable Web too much content output to a tiny screen trying get too much input - keyboards don’t work existing mental models applied to a new interaction type take what we have now and make it smaller while not reducing the set of features mindset of the designers & clients who did not understand the limitations of the platform and how it should be used
- 6. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL distill the important nugget of information simplify and packaging appropriately design around short focused activities without reliance on input & scrolling, using sensible defaults figure out how to do more with less glances to represent small units of relevant content think of the entire journey - wearable to device
- 7. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL consider battery - offload to devices or cloud wearables are not smaller smart phones Context is King use information is already known about the user and what can be gathered about location and agenda inputs available, angle gesture pressure
- 8. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL • number of notifications and interruptions a Smart Phone inform us about and how that has changed behaviours • what important to that user at that moment, in that location, in their social or work context • otherwise it may be just a distraction • filtering should extend beyond notifications and help to reduce noise
- 10. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL Notifications Presented to User Potential Notifications user in a meeting
- 12. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL #NoUI the best design is invisible hardware is in general harder to tweak on the fly that software iterations are more costly
- 13. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL testing this is hard, really hard, research is so important Validate assumptions metrics and analyse in the wild testing
- 14. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL Phones - Tablets - Beacons - Wearables - Smart Glasses - IoT The largest open Device Lab in London with 300+ devices.
- 16. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL why physical device labs? remote testing can look but can't get feel remotely mobile apps were standalone or connect to servers increasingly they now connect to ‘things’ device compatibility, connectivity, reliability,security network conditions, distances and interference
- 17. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL dev kits and prototypes for other companies to play with it hosting events and meetups, Wearable Wednesday iBeacon Hackathon, bluetooth meetup groups host your hackathon? future of retail demonstrators and fashion
- 18. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL Designing, Testing and Collabourating with Wearable Apps Niall Roche @niallrocheGet in touch n.roche@ucl.ac.uk Thank You
- 19. @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL @UCL_DBL Gather detailed use analytics to learn and iterate with the help of our UX Consultants and connect directly with users hoping to become App Ambassadors. App Lab Push your app out UCL’s 45,000 staff and students.
Editor's Notes
- DBL help startups with digital businesses not limited to UCL, but to the greater London community W3C Wearable Web Group
- Occasionally Connected / Disconnected High Latency & network congestion Low or varying Bandwidth Battery Issues Storage Restrictions Processing Restrictions
- last talk will covered UI in more detail Tizen and LG Web OS, browsers on wearables - browsers on phones was crazy too mindset of the designers but with the clients who did not understand the limitations of the platform and what you should use it for
- difference between 4.5 inch and 7 inch smartphone and tablet. Both are in reality fundamentally different devices not just in the physical screen size differences. understanding the user's context this is far more important on a wearable device than it ever was for a smart phone
- don’t delivery every single message, be selective
- Internal trigger (like an emotional need) wake up, going on lunch, leave work, finish a meeting (not just scheduled finish of meeting)
- deciding what and how to notify the user and when is hard, observing how and when the user accesses notifications is key time of delivery of message + time read + actions taken. Machine Learning can play a huge role here in addition to what the user prefers and does
- importance of trialling an building the right product harder to fix silicon than it is code Nir Eyal - The more closely a product can couple the external trigger (like a notification) with the internal trigger (like an emotional need), the more likely the user is to respond
- publishing guidelines in this area with CTIA based on workshops at MWC
- Collabouration why get involved build an ecosystem around device labs and collabourative and testing spaces and communities return on investment for dev kits and prototypes if you want other companies to play with it hosting events and meetups, Wearable Wednesday iBeacon Hackathon, bluetooth meetup groups host your hackathon Device Lab can manage your device loan programme for you in London and the UK. As our Device Lab is mobile so we can take the devices to those driving innovation get your kit into the lab, don’t be the missing device when startups look for kit to play have the devices and the test community playbrush and antix Snap Fashion future of retail at the dandy lab