Training Details

Overview

Today, everyone seems to be developing products for mobile. But can people use these products? This course provides you with an understanding of the essential building blocks and unique constraints involved in creating UIs for mobility – including proper interaction models and effective navigation schemes for your mobile product.

Benefits

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Understand common mobility usage and user behaviour patterns
• Develop business and user requirements
• Obtain user task data to inform your mobile design
• Learn the DOs and DON’Ts of mobile design
• Understand and apply mobile design principles for a variety of mobile devices:
  • Feature phones
  • Smart phones (e.g., Blackberry)
  • Touch phones (e.g., iPhone)
• Decide whether to create a mobile app or website
• Know where to find – and how to apply –  mobile design patterns

Who should attend?

• Product Managers
• Software developers
• Web developers
• Application developers
• Information architects
• GUI designers
• QA personnel
• Visual interaction designers
• Project managers
• Market researchers

Course Outline

• Introduction: Mobile design approach
  • Mobile landscape and
  • Known user behaviours
• Business requirements
  • Mobile web vs. app
  • Relationship between mobile app to the web brand/experience
  • Hands-on exercise
• User Requirements
  • Types of users
  • Mobile goals, tasks, context
  • Hands-on exercise
  • Making design decisions and trade-offs
• Development considerations for mobile
  • Platforms
  • “walled garden” vs. open
  • Restricted inputs and networks
  • Physical devices
  • Interoperability
• Interaction Design
  • Do’s and dont’s
  • Design principles
  • Prototyping methods
  • Mobile design patterns, libraries and standards
  • Mobile input methods
  • Hands-on exercise
• Usability Testing
  • Why? How to test mobile apps and/or websites
  • Testing with physical devices
  • Hands-on exercise
  • Test recommendations and design implications
• Summary and Q&A