Apple Watch / Smartwatch UX: 7 Guidelines for greater AppsThorsten Jonas
Do not mistake a smartwatch for a small smartphone.
Which content belongs on your wrist — and which does not?
How is good user experience on a Smartwatch defined and how do you achieve a great user experience on a smartwatch?
We worked on different projects for Apple Watch and Android Smartwatch for the past months. From these projects and from personal use of the devices we derived seven guidelines for a greater App experience on Smartwatches.
UPDATE: Find the german version here:
http://de.slideshare.net/tjonas/20150424-cellular-smartwatchguidelines-47366106
A Cognitive Approach to Ecosystem DesignAndrea Picchi
UX Poland
Warsaw (Poland), April 24 2015
Until recently, design models for online products considered only the computer or mobile phone as a standalone platform. In our increasingly connected world, people own multiple kind devices and are already using them together, switching between them, in order to accomplish a single goal.
These devices relate to one another in a variety of ways, and together can form powerful ensembles that can better assist people in achieving their goals. This is a new scenario where designers need to start looking at multiple devices as part of a bigger ecosystem, rather than treating them as single entities.
In this session we’ll see how in this ecosystem, devices can relate to one another in a variety of ways, and how in this scenario, the context can play a fundamental role in every user experience session.
It's About Time - Lightning talk for UX DesignersJeremy Johnson
Before designing for the Apple Watch (or any smart watch), you should know the history around the medium you're designing for. This was a quick 5 minute talk on some of the basics of what makes a watch tick.
1. 구글 글래스(Google Glass)
1-1. Google Glass 디자인
1-2. Google Glass 기능
1-3. Google Glass UI 살펴보기
1-4. Google Glass 관련특허 및 기술
2. 애플 아이워치(Apple iWatch)
2-1. Apple iWatch 개요
2-2. Apple iWatch 관련특허
2-3. Apple iWatch 관련제품
3. UX 기술 트랜드의 변화
4. Smart Glass & Watch UX 미래전망
Presented at UXPA 2015 in San Diego
From the conference program:
Let's go zero to wireframe with wearables!
Wearables can be tough to understand and design for, especially if you don’t have experience with the hardware. In one evening we’ll get you up to speed on wearable technology. We’ll talk about two trends, context and continuity, and focus on how those trends will impact the user experience of screen-based wearables. Then we’ll spend the rest of our time getting hands-on by wire framing a smart watch app.
In this workshop we will:
+ Explore the world of wearables, and hone in on smart watches.
+ Explore the challenges that come along with screen-based wearables - specifically context and continuity.
+ Get hands-on with smart watches - wireframing a smart watch app with feedback and discussion.
You’ll leave this workshop with the skill and knowledge you need to get started designing the UX for smart watches.
Microsoft’s HockeyApp - Mobile Application Testing Toolsara stanford
Microsoft’s HockeyApp - the leading service for mobile crash analysis. For app distribution for developers who are developing apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phone
Apple Watch / Smartwatch UX: 7 Guidelines for greater AppsThorsten Jonas
Do not mistake a smartwatch for a small smartphone.
Which content belongs on your wrist — and which does not?
How is good user experience on a Smartwatch defined and how do you achieve a great user experience on a smartwatch?
We worked on different projects for Apple Watch and Android Smartwatch for the past months. From these projects and from personal use of the devices we derived seven guidelines for a greater App experience on Smartwatches.
UPDATE: Find the german version here:
http://de.slideshare.net/tjonas/20150424-cellular-smartwatchguidelines-47366106
A Cognitive Approach to Ecosystem DesignAndrea Picchi
UX Poland
Warsaw (Poland), April 24 2015
Until recently, design models for online products considered only the computer or mobile phone as a standalone platform. In our increasingly connected world, people own multiple kind devices and are already using them together, switching between them, in order to accomplish a single goal.
These devices relate to one another in a variety of ways, and together can form powerful ensembles that can better assist people in achieving their goals. This is a new scenario where designers need to start looking at multiple devices as part of a bigger ecosystem, rather than treating them as single entities.
In this session we’ll see how in this ecosystem, devices can relate to one another in a variety of ways, and how in this scenario, the context can play a fundamental role in every user experience session.
It's About Time - Lightning talk for UX DesignersJeremy Johnson
Before designing for the Apple Watch (or any smart watch), you should know the history around the medium you're designing for. This was a quick 5 minute talk on some of the basics of what makes a watch tick.
1. 구글 글래스(Google Glass)
1-1. Google Glass 디자인
1-2. Google Glass 기능
1-3. Google Glass UI 살펴보기
1-4. Google Glass 관련특허 및 기술
2. 애플 아이워치(Apple iWatch)
2-1. Apple iWatch 개요
2-2. Apple iWatch 관련특허
2-3. Apple iWatch 관련제품
3. UX 기술 트랜드의 변화
4. Smart Glass & Watch UX 미래전망
Presented at UXPA 2015 in San Diego
From the conference program:
Let's go zero to wireframe with wearables!
Wearables can be tough to understand and design for, especially if you don’t have experience with the hardware. In one evening we’ll get you up to speed on wearable technology. We’ll talk about two trends, context and continuity, and focus on how those trends will impact the user experience of screen-based wearables. Then we’ll spend the rest of our time getting hands-on by wire framing a smart watch app.
In this workshop we will:
+ Explore the world of wearables, and hone in on smart watches.
+ Explore the challenges that come along with screen-based wearables - specifically context and continuity.
+ Get hands-on with smart watches - wireframing a smart watch app with feedback and discussion.
You’ll leave this workshop with the skill and knowledge you need to get started designing the UX for smart watches.
Microsoft’s HockeyApp - Mobile Application Testing Toolsara stanford
Microsoft’s HockeyApp - the leading service for mobile crash analysis. For app distribution for developers who are developing apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phone
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IndexedDB - An Efficient Way to Manage Datasara stanford
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The size of the data generated in the world explodes. Data is being constantly gathered by various sources. The Data keeps increasing many folds every day. Technology gears up to combat BIG DATA
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Enforced usage of mobile devices everywhere starting from small scale to large base organizations. Companies are offering mobile devices to officers, staff, field staff and so on
ember is a JavaScript web application framework running on the client side. It is open source used to develop single page applications. There is a reduced need for writing code with ember’s handlebars integrated templates
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Material Design in the Google I/O App. Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. Android now includes support for material design apps. To use material design in your Android apps, follow the guidelines defined in the material design specification and use the new components and functionality available in Android 5.0 (API level 21) and above.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Flux is an application architecture for building User Interfaces (UI). A data flow application architecture created and used by Facebook for client-side web applications. React JS is An open source JavaScript library for building user interfaces
Interaction Design - A Heady Mix of Thingssara stanford
One of the newest paradigms in the design of Software,Websites,Apps. Predicts the intent of the user and makes simple and complex tasks equally enjoyable
IndexedDB - An Efficient Way to Manage Datasara stanford
A web browser standard interface for a local database of records Holds simple values and hierarchical objects. An API for client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data Exhibits High performance. Storage and retrieval done through keys or indexes
The size of the data generated in the world explodes. Data is being constantly gathered by various sources. The Data keeps increasing many folds every day. Technology gears up to combat BIG DATA
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Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Enforced usage of mobile devices everywhere starting from small scale to large base organizations. Companies are offering mobile devices to officers, staff, field staff and so on
ember is a JavaScript web application framework running on the client side. It is open source used to develop single page applications. There is a reduced need for writing code with ember’s handlebars integrated templates
ember enables automatic updates of templates on data change .The increase in reusability by the use of common idioms increases productivity
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Introduced with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS) is a popular framework which lets you write queuing / message based applications in the database itself. It gives native support for such applications in the engine and makes life easy for the developers in creation of dependable applications which are utilizing the database engine components to talk within separate databases, without much of complicated communication.
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In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
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Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
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Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
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- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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Smart Design for Smart Technology – UI/UX Design for the Wearables
1. Smart Design for Smart Technology – UI/UX Design for the Wearables
News, News and more news. The convergence of Fashion and Technology started way
back in 2014, and the news never stops pouring in. An interesting fusion of Materials,
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Electronics, Human Intelligence and Biometrics, this
industry transforms and takes design to a completely new pedestal.
Always the newsmaker; and now categorized to creative technology, UI/UX Design of
Wearables is a matured discipline today.
Interesting announcements for products launched or prototypes proposed have made it
to the headlines all through 2014 and early 2015.
Android Wear based Smart Watches keep coming in every other day
Apple Watch announced with a bang creates a furor
Mondaine launches Swiss made Smart Watch with analogue face
Sony launches an Augmented Reality eyewear SmartEyeGlass
Google Decides to put in more research into Google Glass and withdraws sales
temporarily to improvise
Montblanc debuts for the wearables by adding a smart band to its analogue watch
straps
Apple wins patent approval for wireless virtuality headset, which would probably
mount the iPhone in front of the eyes to augment
2. The Challenges for this unique User Experience
The designers metamorphose their design from a simple traditional web or a mobile
design to offer a completely new User Experience with the wearables design. This new
discipline is in fact creating a design that amalgamates the use of the wearables with the
other devices the wearable is likely to interact with, typically the smartphones and the
tablets.
Wearables present challenges unlike other traditional design projects. It would require
designing of an amazing user experience which is appealing and at the same time
minimalistic. Unconventional hardware features like vibration, voice controls and
connectivity need to be blended in into a completely different User Experience. Smart
Designing ideas are the call of the day for the design of the apps that run on the
wearables.
Interesting apps could become more accessible and hence usable on the wearable
devices as we would be constantly wearing them, rather than fetching and using them.
A thoughtful approach at the onset of the product design of the wearables helps in
combating the challenges for this completely different design focus.
The User Interface & Gestures
The user interactions are made quite simple and the meaning of gestures are all
set to change. Moving on from pinch, swipe, tap to the new gestures round the
block are Force Touch & Taptic Technology. The smart notifications for the
Wearables are again based on human senses since the screen space is less, or
none (like the health bands) the use of fingers is limited to minimal.
Display Restrictions
A single small display cluttered up with yet smaller visuals might put off the user.
The UIs can be swipable multiple screens. Better design approach is achieved
when the Wearables become accessories of larger devices like phones and tablets
and the UX itself encompasses a family of devices, large and small rather than
remain limited to a single device alone.
The need of a Harmonious UI/UX
Since the UX migrates from one device to another and back and forth, the UIs
should be harmonious with each other. The colors, the elements and the gestures
should exhibit consistency across devices to allow seamless switching between the
wearables and the smart phones or tablets.
Actions being done while using the device
3. The uniqueness of the Wearables is that the user would definitely be on the move
while using them and the UI and UX design should be actions based. The user
could be cycling, running, walking or even driving while the UX unfolds. Audio
based inputs and outputs might be more suitable for this design rather than video
or text.
The Environment of the User
Notifications and alerts need to be a bit different for a wearable. Since the user is
constantly on the move, he could be in an extremely noisy surroundings or in a
silent zone.
In any case, it makes more sense to have personal notifications like tap, vibrate or
buzz.
Designing Newer and Newer Wearables
With innovative ideas hitting the market every other season, the Wearables are the most
discussed and probably the most researched amongst the technologies today.
Revolutionizing what we wear, how we wear and why we wear it at all, this design
technique puts a lot of onus on the designers and the engineers to work in tandem to
each other to offer smart, novel, useful devices exhibiting style and purpose thus
enticing the users.
Ingenious thinking and purposeful technology coupled with intuitive designs is going to
take the wearables to the unknown and the unheard of. Smart Watches need no
introduction and we are already talking of contact lenses, eyewear, fitness bands and
many more that are in the pipeline.
Activity trackers, guides, diabetics monitors for insulin levels, music controls, QR
code scanning, or replying to a text message with voice or digital information conversion
with glasses over natural field of vision are only a few of the commonly known tasks
implemented on wearables. An open mind and a broader vision is bound to include more
such tasks into the portfolio.
User Experience – Driving the Wearables
User expectations and imaginations are very important issues to be considered in
designing the UX; making it a combination of art, technology, psychology and cognitive
sciences.
UI/ UX gives a definite focus to recreate real life experiences enhanced with technology.
4. A good design team, especially when it comes to designing the UI/UX for the very new
wearables, guess the sequence of user interactions between the combinations of devices
that the user chooses to use the wearables with, by creating scenarios, predicting
navigational preferences and impersonating user behavior.
The insight into the importance and usability of the features to the user of the wearables
established thus helps to create a consistent user experience.
A satisfying UX is a good mix of various aspects as in any UI/UX design and also in the
design of the wearables.
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