Ready to go Mobile? Today's Mobile Landscape: Responsive, Adaptive, Hybrid, and Native
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There are a number of options when going mobile, and it's not slowing down. Why choose one over the other? What are the strengths and pitfalls? What's right for your customers and users? We'll go over each option, with examples of how you can come to the right strategy around your mobile offerings.
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Ready to go Mobile? Today's Mobile Landscape: Responsive, Adaptive, Hybrid, and Native
- 1. Ready to go Mobile? Jeremy Johnson Director of User Experience @
- 2. @jeremyjohnson (yes, we’re hiring)
- 4. WORKED FOR
- 5. WORKED WITH
- 7. Uncover user needs, Design great solutions, and build out solutions to launch.
- 10. *
- 13. email web browsing video music messaging camera
- 23. “What would you like to do on your mobile devices?”
- 25. “Or why Responsive Design is a magic bullet”
- 26. 3 Tips for going Mobile / Responsive
- 27. “Mobile First”
- 29. Limiting feature set (MVP) Simplifying experiences Mobile not an “after-thought”
- 30. “MVP” Most Viable Product vs. Most Valuable Product
- 31. 3 Tips for going Mobile / Responsive
- 32. #1 CONTEXT
- 33. CONTEXT I’m at home I’m on the road I’m at work When you’re at home your usage could be different from when you’re on the road, or at work. Or as research shows - in some cases, like shopping - you could be browsing anywhere and expect the same experience.
- 38. *COUCHING A number of people are reaching for their phone instead of going to their desks, or using their laptops (or even tablets!) when at home on the couch. Where before, we may have made a specific mobile version, with specific mobile tasks or content, today phones are good enough, and many times people expect the same content no matter where they are or what device they’re using.
- 40. How do you create feature parity across devices?
- 41. *SNACKING Remember before smartphones? Waiting in line, waiting for a meeting to start, waiting to pick up our kids, in a drive-thru? Now this is a prime opportunity for short bursts of online activity. I need to pay a bill. What’s on TV tonight? Where are my friends? Does the local store have that dress on sale today? I’m shopping for new insurance. All happening on-the-go, wherever you have the time.
- 42. How do you create content that can be consumed quickly?
- 43. Questions to ask? Does your experience need to work in different contexts? A User’s Location? Time of day? Different devices?
- 44. “Tell me about how you use your devices at different times of the day?” Morning Afternoon Night
- 45. “Tell me about how you use your devices at different times of the day?” Morning Afternoon Night
- 46. Morning Afternoon Night Home Work Outing Process 1 Process 2 Process 3
- 48. Questions to ask? Do you need to shorten your experience? Is this something they’ll focus on? Or something they just need updates for?
- 49. “Will you use these features on mobile?” Yes No Maybe…
- 50. “Map each feature to how much time they’ll spend using it on a mobile device" 1-5mins 20mins 45+mins
- 51. CONTEXT = Determining if your users need all of the things all of the time - and will they need specific interfaces or features when mobile.
- 53. PERSONAS
- 59. “Dashboard” Time on Task Alerts Communication Full Application Order entry Lookup Maps MANAGER AGENT
- 60. “All the Things!” “AT HOME” AGENT
- 61. Speed Accuracy Company Policy Sales Quota AGENT Service Knowledge Complex Trips Packages “AT HOME” AGENT
- 66. #2 PREPARE YOUR CONTENT
- 67. CONTENT Will your content scale to mobile? Do you have legacy content you need to reformat or even rethink? Are your images legible at smaller sizes, are your videos compressed well enough, are your workflows able to move to a smaller screen?
- 68. Is your content ready for mobile?
- 69. RESPONSIVE
- 72. ■ Services / APIs ■ Video compression ■ Content size / compression ■ Vendors (chat, reviews, images, “widgets” etc…) “How about…”
- 75. #3 PROTOTYPING
- 76. CONCEPT What is the best way to create usable, enjoyable, fast experiences for your users or customers? Do you need new services? Does it make sense for all your features? Do you need new mobile specific features? Are your features, UI, workflows ready for mobile?
- 83. “Agile methods like Scrum and XP both rely on a close and collaborative relationship and continual interaction with the customer – the people who are paying for the software and who are going to use the system.” 2001 http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2012/02/agiles-customer-problem.html
- 84. (literally 100s) http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2012/11/list-of-mockupprototyping-tools.html http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/rapid-prototyping-tools#thelist
- 85. are we building the right things? valuable usable enjoyable Is it easy to use? Do they want to use it?
- 86. Keep/Kill Prototype Evaluate (Build) Test (Measure) (Learn)
- 90. 3 Tips for going Mobile / Responsive #1 CONTEXT #2 CONTENT #3 CONCEPT
- 92. Austin / Dallas / Seattle
- 98. We don’t just ask. We observe.
- 99. Concept Validation Contextual Inquiries Usability Study Customer Validation
- 101. http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2012/08/how-user-research-can-help-prioritise-product-requirements/
- 102. I’m ready. What’s next? ■ Do I go native? ■ What about Hybrid solutions? ■ Can I just go web?
- 103. NATIVE. Why Native? ■ Most fluid/fast experience ■ Easier to move to new iOS versions ■ Not dependent on 3rd party APIs ■ More likely to get App Store attention ■ Can use new phone features faster
- 104. HYBRID. Why Hybrid? ■ Less burden on native resources ■ More reuse across properties ■ Use native where it makes sense / use web where it makes sense ■ Reuse some current skill-sets
- 105. HYBRID CAN MEAN… ■ Written in JS, but compiled to native Android & iOS (ex. titanium) ■ Written in C#, but compiled to native Android & iOS (ex. xamarin) ■ Written in HTML/JS but wrapped in native, with some hooks to native functionality (ex. phonegap) ■ Written in native iOS and Android, but with some screens or flows rendered in HTML (ex. using webview)
- 106. Native Component Native Component Web Content (webview) Native Component “…we doubled down on native navigation, while reaffirming our webview-core architecture. In the jump to our 3 [Generation] app, we’re taking our productivity spoils and spending them where they can make a difference.” https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3743-hybrid-sweet-spot-native-navigation-web-content
- 107. WEB. Why Web? ■ Reuse your current base of web developers ■ Have a product reason to have the same experience on a .com ■ Already have a web property ■ Accessed from a URL ■ Reuse across web / app ■ Responsive or Adaptive
- 109. RESPONSIVE Responsive is where you have all the same features of your current site but via breakpoints it “responds” down to different devices. Why Responsive? ■ Customers expect the same content and features ■ One set of templates to maintain ■ Works across a number of devices
- 110. OUR RESPONSIVE APPROACH OUR APPROACH ■ The biggest mental shift in design/dev for responsive is learning to think fluidly. ■ The question "How many pixels wide?" is now a red herring. ■ Instead, you have to think proportionally, and in percentages. OUR TOOLS ■ Sass (and Compass) have been invaluable. / http://sass-lang.com / http://compass-style.org ■ It allows you to have small, topical (S)CSS files, and combine them into larger files that (don't) have media queries. ■ This approach has allowed us to support older versions of Internet Explorer (prior to IE9) as well as modern browsers that do understand media queries. ■ Also, just for front-end templating, Middleman (or Serve) is helpful. It handles Sass compilation, as well as JavaScript minification and concatenation. / http:// middlemanapp.com / http://get-serve.com OUR STACK ■ Irrelevant. Except that Sass (and Compass) require Ruby to compile. ■ Any server-side stack should be able to support a responsive approach.
- 111. RESPONSIVE IS BECOMING MORE MATURE A number of good, solid frameworks (if needed) http://getbootstrap.com/ http://foundation.zurb.com/ A number of good 3rd party solutions (if needed) http://www.highcharts.com/ * We tend NOT to use large frameworks, but lighter smaller components as needed.
- 112. Google: Bad User Experience For Mobile Users May Lead To Ranking Issues “Because at Google we are aiming to provide a great user experience on any device, we're making a big push to ensure the search results we deliver reflect this principle.” https://www.seroundtable.com/google-user-experience-ranking-19278.html
- 114. ADAPTIVE Adaptive is where you have custom templates per device type you want to target. This works best when you have specific features or interactions you want across different devices. Why Adaptive? ■ Custom experience per device / time / location ■ You don’t have the frontend skill-set for Responsive ■ You already have a m.dot site
- 115. ADAPTIVE How do I know what our user’s needs are, and if they’re different? Qualitative Quantitative
- 116. ADAPTIVE ex. “Via observation we found out that your users will only use alerts and limited content when on the go.” ex. “Via data we’ve found that tablet usage increases 200% after work hours, we need to make sure all our features work well on tablets.”
- 117. Concept Validation Contextual Inquiries Usability Study Customer Validation
- 118. Web Hybrid Native
- 119. Web Hybrid Native
- 120. DESIGN
- 121. Fluid Breakpoints #1 #2 #3
- 122. #1
- 123. #2
- 124. #3
- 125. Fluid
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- 131. Start with a fluid grid
- 132. Content Inventory
- 133. Breakpoints for devices (But, keep it fluid) 1 2
- 134. Be thoughtful about your breakpoints and how it works with your content. 1 2
- 135. Tools OUR TOOLS ■ Sass (and Compass) have been invaluable. / http://sass-lang.com / http://compass-style.org ■ It allows you to have small, topical (S)CSS files, and combine them into larger files that (don't) have media queries. ■ This approach has allowed us to support older versions of Internet Explorer (prior to IE9) as well as modern browsers that do understand media queries. ■ Also, just for front-end templating, Middleman (or Serve) is helpful. It handles Sass compilation, as well as JavaScript minification and concatenation. / http:// middlemanapp.com / http://get-serve.com
- 136. Responsive, Live Style Guide
- 137. Device / Browser Testing http://mattkersley.com/responsive/
- 138. Chrome Tools
- 139. Launch & Learn
- 140. The future?
- 157. Thanks! Questions? Jeremy Johnson Director of User Experience @ @jeremyjohnson 214-228-2894 .com @projekt202 jeremy.johnson@projekt202.com