Sound, The Silent Partner in User Experience

These are the slides from my first tech talk at Snow*Mobile 2014.

Transcript

1. Sound: The Silent Partner in
   User Experience
   Janie Clayton-Hasz
   

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3. –Jeremy Olson, 2011 Apple Design Award Winner
   “Audio is a vast, unexplored territory with a few
   pioneers.”
   

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4. Apple’s iPod Nano
   

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5. Battle of the Client Apps
   

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6. Demo
   • https://github.com/RedQueenCoder/
   SystemSoundServicesDemo
   

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7. Programs For Sound
   • Garage Band
   • Logic
   • Reason
   • Pro Tools (expensive!)
   

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8. Sites to find sounds
   • Sound Snap
   • Audio Jungle
   • FreeSound.com
   • Apple Loops
   

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9. Things to keep in mind
   • Use sparingly!
   • Use your app a lot to see if the sound gets annoying
   • If possible, run through a low-pass filter
   • Make sure you have the legal rights to your sounds
   

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10. http://RedQueenCoder.com

    @RedQueenCoder
    

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