Android Design: Beyond the Guidelines (short version)

A high level overview on putting your companies brand front and center, and how to approach unique and modern design in your Android applications.

Note: This deck was originally composed with animated content on almost every screen. Unfortunately, animated content is not available on SpeakerDeck as of the time of publishing this deck.

Transcript

1. A N D R O I D D E S I G N :
   B E Y O N D T H E G U I D E L I N E S
   P U T T I N G Y O U R B R A N D B E F O R E T H E S Y S T E M
   

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2. K E V I N G R A N T
   A N D R O I D E N G I N E E R
   

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3. O U T L I N E
   • S AY Y E S
   • T H I N K D I F F E R E N T LY
   • B E A D E S I G N L E A D E R
   

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4. S AY Y E S
   

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5. “Wouldn’t it be great if…”
   

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6. “What do you think about…”
   

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7. – E V E RY D E S I G N E R E V E R
   “How hard would it be to…”
   

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9. N O B O D Y L I K E S
   S O M E O N E W H O I S
   D W I G H T A L L T H E
   T I M E .
   

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10. • Designers aren’t trying to ruin the product (just your life)
    • Requests are usually reasonable
    • Even the unreasonable requests are still doable
    • Remember - You’re designing the app for your
    company (or client), not for Google.
    

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11. T H I N K D I F F E R E N T LY
    

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14. – S O M E P E O P L E I N T H I S R O O M
    “But I can’t design good”
    

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15. – S A LVA D O R D A L Í
    “Those who do not want to imitate anything,
    produce nothing.”
    

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16. G E T I N S P I R E D B Y
    A P P S Y O U L O V E
    

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17. T H I S I S Y O U R J O B
    

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18. B E A D E S I G N L E A D E R
    

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19. E V E RY T H I N G S TA R T E D O U T A S
    S O M E O N E S I D E A
    

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20. “Wouldn’t it be great if…”
    

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21. V I E W PA G E R
    S O M E O N E S I D E A
    

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22. D O U B L E - TA P
    T O Z O O M
    S O M E O N E S I D E A
    

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23. P U L L T O
    R E F R E S H
    S O M E O N E S I D E A
    aw no snaps =(
    

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24. W H AT A B O U T T H E D R A W E R ?
    shoutout https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu
    

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25. • Junk Drawer
    • Trash Drawer
    • Sloppy Design
    • Doing your interface wrong
    

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26. J / K I T S A G O O D I D E A
    

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27. S R S LY
    

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28. – R I G H T LY S K E P T I C A L A U D I E N C E
    “Im hearin’ a lot of talk…”
    

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29. S W I P E B A C K
    (before it was cool)
    

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30. “Sir, that interferes with the drawer pattern.”
    

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31. “That’s very wasteful on your applications
    memory footprint.”
    

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32. “That’s not how Android is supposed to work.”
    

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33. I T S A W E S O M E
    so w/ever
    

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34. O U T L I N E
    • W E S A I D Y E S
    • W E T H O U G H T D I F F E R E N T LY
    • W E B E C A M E D E S I G N L E A D E R S
    

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35. Your apps will be remembered
    by the rules you break
    

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36. T H A N K Y O U
    kevinthebigapple.tumblr.com
    @kevingrant5
    kevingrant@tumblr.com
    T U M B L R . C O M / J O B S
    

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