mobile
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#ModevUX: Multiscreen Design @ Ebay
→: #ModevUX: Multiscreen Design @ EbayNot just about different screens, focusing on holistic experience of getting inspired about a product, transacting, receiving. hopefully a good enough experience that you’ll come back again again. If you focus on moments and not how they are all connected, things are going to break down pretty quickly. 40% of ebay transactions go across multiple…
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I Used To Make Apps
→: I Used To Make AppsIn my copious amounts of spare time, I’m been playing with iOS lately (some actual coding posts coming soon, I hope). It’s fun, how quickly I can pull together a framework for an app. The satisfaction of something appearing, that didn’t used to be there. It’s that feeling of making. I miss it. I miss the…
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ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise Scale
→: ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise ScaleTalk from Capital One on moving their 2,500 page site to be mobile optimised. My Takeaway They drove mobile traffic up from 4%, to 40% in a year. My main shock here was that anyone was seeing mobile traffic as low as 4% in mid-2013. Given general internet trends, mobile traffic much below 40% is…
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It’s Not Me, It’s You: When Users Break Up With Their Apps
→: It’s Not Me, It’s You: When Users Break Up With Their AppsThis is an edited version of my notes for a section of my iOSCon Distractedly Intimate talk. You can find the rest of it here. With thanks to Denise who helped me construct this narrative for my talk. We’re makers here, right? And what we make is experiences that take place on the user’s devices, their iThings.…
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5 Reasons to Build a Native App
→: 5 Reasons to Build a Native AppNotifications This is a really common reason to want users to have a native app, but the question is – do users actually want alerts for this product? And if so, how many? For example news apps – they could sent an alert for every new story but that would be excessive! It’s important to be selective.…
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Responsive Web Design – GGD Sydney, August 2013
→: Responsive Web Design – GGD Sydney, August 2013Daphne Chong talked about a recent project. Usually been backend, but recently did a new an interesting site for twitter and the elections. First time looking at responsive design, found it really interesting. Example of the Sydney Morning Herald. As you make the view port smaller, you have to scroll. If you pre tent to…
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Distractedly Intimate: Your Users on Mobile
→: Distractedly Intimate: Your Users on MobileWe Are In Love Touch Have you noticed, how people hate their computers, but love their phones? Truly, it is our most intimate device – we share every moment of our day with it, we sleep with it, we capture special, and not so special moments with it, and it is our constant connection to…
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Multiple Cellphones: How I Balance my Usage Across Both
→: Multiple Cellphones: How I Balance my Usage Across BothI have carried multiple cellphones for about 2 years now. I think as a mobile developer, it’s important to be familiar with both the major platforms (iPhone and Android) and I find the context helpful regardless of which platform I am working on. Currently, I carry an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 5. My Nexus…
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Presenting Gives Me Nightmares, but I Still Do It: Here’s How
→: Presenting Gives Me Nightmares, but I Still Do It: Here’s HowI get very nervous presenting, although it’s something I do relatively often. This is not out of enthusiasm for getting up on stage, but rather because I find myself in the position of being the least unwilling engineer. After my last presentation I was told that I didn’t need to be nervous, because I was…