W9 L1 - Mobile Design UI

Question 1

What are some design considerations

Answer 1

• Platforms
• Screen size
• Input method
• Computing power
• Output
• User/device location awareness
• Network connectivity

Question 2

What are the design principles for mobile

Answer 2

1. Design for Interruption
2. Design for Continuous Experience
3. Self-sufficient Design
4. Make use of phone features*
5. Consider Screen Opportunity Cost
6. Minimise Interaction Cost

Question 3

what is Design for Interruption

Answer 3

• Designing for speed and recovery
  
  • Save state often
  • Remember filled in values
• Allow users to save state
• Email to self
• Favourites if logged in
• Preserve a good level of history (forgiving)
• Allow stop, restart, resume with little effort
• Provide gesture based interaction to enhance speed
• Avoid less familiar gestures

Question 4

what is Design for Continuous Experience

Answer 4

• Multi-platform
• Personalisation
  
  • Use cookies to remember user information or where
    users were the last time they used the application
    
    • Bookmarks
    • Colour palette
      Links to Consistency for design principles

Question 5

What is self-sufficient design

Answer 5

Don’t ask users to go elsewhere (for information, to complete task)

Question 6

What is use phone feature

Answer 6

can only do this with native, hybrid

Question 7

What is consideration of screen opportunity cost

Answer 7

Including a design element = give up space
Leave out a design element = give up functionality
Everything you have on the screen takes up space

Question 8

What is minimise interaction cost

Answer 8

• The effort a user has to make in order to interact with your interface
• waiting, typing, scrolling, clicking, reading, looking for info
  –> smart keyboards, allow certain characters or symbols to be entered
  Remember: interaction and UX are inverse