Watch This Face

Our presentation on the philosophical design differences between watchOS and Android Wear from YOW! Connected 2015.

Transcript

2. Hi!
5. So.
6. Computers are on your wrist now.
7. How do you deal with that?
8. We’ll be talking about Apple Watch and Android Wear
9. Apple and Google see the watch in different ways
10. How Apple Sees the Apple Watch
11. An extension to the iPhone
12. How Google Sees Android Wear
13. Another way to access search
14. These are not incompatible views
15. Fast access to what the user cares about
16. What does a smart watch mean?
17. Much more intimate than phones
18. Instantly accessible
19. Discreet notifications
20. Phones are platforms for software
21. Watches are devices
22. Watches blur the line between hardware and software
23. Users like spending time with phones
24. Users hate staring at their wrists DISGUSTING
25. The watch should be glanceable HEY LOOKIT
26. Shared Design Patterns
27. Watches are personal communicators
28. Not “person-to-person” but “watch-to-person” hi
29. A good conversation
30. A good conversation is relevant
31. Use user’s context
32. Location
33. Time
34. Sensors
35. A good conversation is considerate
36. Frequent notifications are annoying
37. Watches notify by tactile feedback
38. Tactile feedback is a request for attention
40. Frequent tapping is awful
41. Users only want to know about relevant information
42. Expose preferences for notification types
43. - BUT -
44. Users don’t go looking for preferences
45. Users shouldn’t go looking for preferences
46. “It just works”
47. Suggest and Demand
48. Infer the user’s preferences NICE.
49. From user activity
50. From user context
51. A good conversation is valuable
52. Interactions are lightweight
53. 5 seconds per interaction
54. Be clear with text
55. Use graphics to save on reading
57. Continuing activities on the phone
58. Handoff
59. Unique Design Patterns
60. Nothing is entirely unique
61. Android Wear is about guessing what the user wants
62. Show driving time to work! Show next meeting!
63. watchOS is about extending your iPhone apps
64. Info Info Info Info
65. Glanceable content
66. watchOS splits content into apps, glances and complications
67. Apps are like iPhone apps, but smaller
68. Glances are quick summaries of important content
69. Complications are the bits on the watch that don’t tell the time
70. Context stream
71. Halfway between a notification and a glance
72. Thing you should know Next thing you should know Another thing you should know
73. Ambient mode
74. Interactive Mode Ambient Mode
75. Voice-driven UI
76. Actions need confirmation
77. Let’s look at an example!
78. Foursquare
79. “Where’s the best X near here?”
80. Most common destinations get the most space Useful but less common gets less space
81. Quick summaries of possible candidates
82. Clear text Elaboration on visuals Quick “do I want to go here” element
83. Summary of position plus fast access to detailed map
84. Only the most critical info
87. Minimal complexity and Maximum usefulness
88. What have we learned?
89. Watches are not small phones
90. Be a considerate conversation partner
91. Most everything is the same on different platforms
92. But be aware of the differences that do exist
93. Always remember:
94. The watch is not the focus
95. The user is the focus
96. Make some great apps
97. @thesecretlab secretlab.com.au
98. secretlab.com.au/books