Presentations about mobile

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Gabriel White — Sensing context in mobile design

Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 25 1.40pm.

Gabriel White PortraitMainstream mobile devices are being loaded with sen­sors. These devices can be used to cre­ate expe­ri­ences that are tai­lored, adap­tive and respon­sive to the way peo­ple live and work. Location-​​awareness allows devices to respond to place, net­worked address books enable socially rich com­mu­ni­ca­tion expe­ri­ences, and motion and ges­tural sen­sors empower design­ers to respond to con­text of use. All these ele­ments are cre­at­ing a ’sen­si­tive ecosys­tem’; mobile devices that adapt grace­fully to con­text and use.

This pre­sen­ta­tion will explore some of the design and tech­nol­ogy trends that are shap­ing design for mobile devices, show exam­ples of devices and ser­vices that are start­ing to take advan­tage of these trends, then explain how design­ers need to rethink design prob­lems to take advan­tage of this tech­no­log­i­cal ground-​​shift.

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Pete Ottery & Tim Lucas — Developing for iPhone

Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 25 11.45am.

Tim Lucas Portrait Peter Ottery PortraitThe release of Apple’s iPhone brings new oppor­tu­ni­ties for web sites and web apps on hand­held devices, though not with­out its share of chal­lenges and best practices.

Tim and Pete will look at the best exam­ples out in the wild and share their expe­ri­ence cre­at­ing iphone​.news​.com​.au — one of Australia’s largest news sites, news​.com​.au, tai­lored to the iPhone.

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Oliver Weidlich — The mobile web user experience — we’re starting to get it right!

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008.

Oliver Wiedlich PortraitHistorically the mobile web has been a ter­ri­ble expe­ri­ence, but things are start­ing to change. Really! We are now at the point that the mobile web is becom­ing eas­ier to access, both on-​​deck & off-​​deck, there’s use­ful & tai­lored ser­vices out there, and killing some time on the train home doesn’t cost more than your weekly train ticket. We’ll check out the lat­est and great­est in the world of mobile web and what makes them dif­fer­ent from the oth­ers. We will also cover the impor­tant things to keep in mind for mak­ing a bet­ter mobile web cus­tomer experience.

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Brian Fling — Mobile web design and development

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.

Brian Fling Portrait

Mobile tech­nol­ogy is poised to rev­o­lu­tion­ize how we gather infor­ma­tion. By 2010 half the pop­u­la­tion of the planet will have access to the inter­net through a mobile device, mak­ing the mobile web an essen­tial part of our lives. Yet the mobile indus­try has few if any resources to help would-​​be mobile devel­op­ers from div­ing in other than applied expe­ri­ence from within the industry.

Brian Fling dicusses the mobile ecosys­tem in Canada and abroad, how you go about devel­op­ing an inte­grated mobile web strat­egy, mobile design and devel­op­ment prin­ci­ples and best prac­tices, and most impor­tantly, prac­ti­cal tech­niques and infor­ma­tion to start cre­at­ing mobile web­sites today.

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John Allsopp & Dave Shea – Where’s Your Web At? Designing for the Web Beyond the Desktop

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.

John Allsopp Portrait Dave Shea Portrait Since the advent of per­sonal com­put­ing, we’ve been tied to one place — typ­i­cally sit­ting at a desk, with a key­board and mouse, and in iso­la­tion. Even the advent of the web and the wifi-​​enabled lap­top hasn’t much changed this quar­ter cen­tury old par­a­digm. But with the rise of mobile phones and devices like the Nintendo Wii and PSP fea­tur­ing first class web brows­ing, our expe­ri­ence of the web will change dra­mat­i­cally over the com­ing years. In this con­text, which design and user expe­ri­ence pat­terns and tech­niques we’ve devel­oped over the last 15 years hold up? And… which break?

In this ses­sion, Dave Shea and John Allsopp con­sider the chal­lenges we’ll face as the web devolves onto a myr­iad devices, and the web is “always on” wher­ever we are.

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Kelly Goto — Designing for Lifestyle

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007.

Interaction design is no longer lim­ited to the web. The con­cept of user expe­ri­ence is being rede­fined as mul­ti­ple deliv­ery meth­ods of social and busi­ness inter­ac­tion merge into our lifestyles. As design migrates from the web to mobile devices we carry and inter­act with on a daily basis, our approach must also shift into cycles of design and research cen­tered around the way peo­ple actu­ally live.

In this enlight­en­ing ses­sion, design ethno­g­ra­pher and web vet­eran Kelly Goto dis­cusses the evo­lu­tion of Web, hand­held, and prod­uct inter­faces and their cul­tural impact. Learn how com­pa­nies are uti­liz­ing ethnographic-​​based research to con­duct rapid, immer­sive stud­ies of peo­ple and their lifestyles to inform the use­ful­ness and via­bil­ity of inter­faces both online and offline.

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Cameron Moll & Tantek Çelik — Design and Coding at the Cutting Edge

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

Hear micro­for­mats founder and cus­to­dian Tantek Çelik paint on the broad can­vas, talk­ing about moti­va­tions, use cases, exam­ples, and benefits.

Cameron Moll says the web is a volatile medium that changes end­lessly, but one thing remains con­stant: a demand for design­ers who are dis­ci­plined in graphic design the­ory, human com­put­ing prin­ci­ples, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­niques. Oh, and CSS, acces­si­bil­ity, and (soon) mobile devices, too. How does one stay abreast?

Hear one of the web’s most dis­ci­plined design­ers share his advice for mas­ter­ing fun­da­men­tal user inter­face prin­ci­ples, good vs. great design, communication-​​centric approaches, and mobile web devel­op­ment, all with the hope of pro­duc­ing mean­ing­ful inter­faces that deliver a reward­ing user experience.

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Rob Manson and Alex Young — E is for everywhere

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Alex Young PortraitRob Manson PortraitIn 1998 the American Dialect Society voted “e-​​” (as in elec­tronic) as the “word of the year”. This sig­ni­fied how impor­tant the inter­net had become in our world. Almost 10 years later we’re under­go­ing an even larger change. Only this time the “e-​​” pre­fix stands for “every­where”. Mobile con­tent, ser­vices and com­merce are chang­ing the way we com­mu­ni­cate, work and do busi­ness. And these changes are build­ing upon the already mas­sive rev­o­lu­tions brought about by the inter­net — only faster and made more per­va­sive. This pre­sen­ta­tion will look at the strate­gic issues fac­ing man­agers and devel­op­ers as they strive to adapt to this lit­er­ally “mov­ing” target.

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Mark Pesce — Mob Rules

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Mark Pesce PortraitSometime shortly after Web Directions South con­cludes, some­body (prob­a­bly a some­body in the “devel­op­ing” world) will become the three bil­lionth mobile phone sub­scriber. Good for the providers, of course — but the effects of the net­work on human social orga­ni­za­tion are far more pro­found. From the dhows of Kerala to the cities of China to the beaches of Cronulla, we’re all com­ing into con­tact with — and learn­ing how to mas­ter — the sub­tle skills of spon­ta­neous self-​​organization which are the essen­tial fact of life on the net­work. We can get in front of this spree of self-​​organization — or get run over by it. Either way, mob rules are the new laws of busi­ness, pol­i­tics, and culture.

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Laurel Papworth — Social networks and mobiles

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Laurel Papworth PortraitIt’s not just about email and Twitter: indus­try ana­lysts agree, vir­tu­ally every online social net­work appli­ca­tion will develop a mobile fea­ture in the next year or two. From Flickr pre-​​installed on Nokia phones to an up-​​to-​​date map of your bud­dies loca­tions, mobile devices are ready to come pre-​​loaded with new friends for you to play with. Before you tune out to lis­ten to music tagged and deliv­ered to your mobile by your social net­work, or press SEND on a sting­ing cri­tique of the Web Directions din­ing hall food to restau­rant review mobile sites, why not attend an infor­ma­tive yet fun ses­sion about the lat­est and great­est in GPS and loca­tion based ser­vices con­nect­ing online com­mu­ni­ties on your mobile? For those who want to focus on the busi­ness model not the technology.

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John Allsopp — Trends and predictions in web technology

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

John Allsopp PortraitWeb design­ers and devel­op­ers are a very prac­ti­cal bunch, often too busy with today’s chal­lenges and work­loads to find time to keep up with devel­op­ments over the hori­zon. In this ses­sion John Allsopp looks at what trends that are impor­tant for web design­ers and devel­op­ers and inno­va­tors gen­er­ally — what future ver­sions of browsers have in store, what devices peo­ple will be using to access the web, and more. A per­fect com­ple­ment to Bert Bos’s focus on com­ing web stan­dard technologies.

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Brian Fling — Web 2.0 + Mobile 2.0 = ?

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

Brian Fling PortraitWeb 2.0 rede­fined how we look at web­sites. Mobile 2.0 is redefin­ing how we look at mobile. What hap­pens when you add these two seem­ingly sep­a­rate worlds together? Is it the mash-​​up of all time, or some­thing dif­fer­ent alto­gether? Will it cre­ate an unholy union or can the merger of these two prin­ci­ples rede­fine how we look at infor­ma­tion? In this ses­sion we will explore what Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 mean and what hap­pens when they come together. We’ll dis­cover what we can learn from both and apply it to the work we cre­ate today.

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Kelly Goto — Designing for Lifestyle

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2006.

Kelly Goto Portrait

Interaction design is no longer lim­ited to the web. The con­cept of user expe­ri­ence is being rede­fined as mul­ti­ple deliv­ery meth­ods of social and busi­ness inter­ac­tion merge into our lifestyles. As design migrates from the web to mobile devices we carry and inter­act with on a daily basis, our approach must also shift into cycles of design and research cen­tered around the way peo­ple actu­ally live. In this enlight­en­ing ses­sion, design ethno­g­ra­pher and web vet­eran Kelly Goto dis­cusses the evo­lu­tion of Web, hand­held, and prod­uct inter­faces and their cul­tural impact. Learn how com­pa­nies are uti­liz­ing ethnographic-​​based research to con­duct rapid, immer­sive stud­ies of peo­ple and their lifestyles to inform the use­ful­ness and via­bil­ity of inter­faces both online and offline. See the slides and hear the podcast »