I gave this session at Flash Camp 11 in San Francisco

1. Designing for Mobile
Garth Braithwaite

2. Show and Tell
Something you love
On your person
Not your phone
Hold it up

3. Who are you?
Developers
Designers
Managers

4. Where do you work?
Freelance
In house
Agency
Product

5. Who am I?
Senior Experience Designer (Adobe XD)
Podcast Host (RIA Radio) (Nerd Radio)
Co Author (Flex 4 Cookbook)
Twitter (@GarthDB)

6. Designing for Mobile

7. Designing for Mobile
Mobile Myth
Walking the Line
Be Your User
TEST TEST TEST

8. Mobile Myth

9. Mobile Myth
Deploy Everywhere
Multi-Platform Development
Libraries (BFF)
Multi-Platform Design
Visual Style Guide
Not CSS (kinda)

10. Mobile Reality
Screen Size
Screen Resolutions
Hardware

11. Mobile Myth Conclusion
Don't ever honestly say or think
design/develop once deploy everywhere
Unless you need to coax a manager to let
you make an app

12. Walking the Line
Brand you app to be yours
READ: different from every other app out
there

13. Walking the Line
Be familiar
READ: like the OS people have come to love

14. Be Your User
Empathy

15. Be Your User
Spend time with platform
Talk with the user
Spot annoyances

16. TEST TEST TEST
Emulator
On devices
Prototype
Paper prototype

17. TEST TEST TEST
Emulator
Simple solution
Inherently flawed
Hardware inconsistency
Touch gestures
Size

18. TEST TEST TEST
On Devices
LiveView Screencaster
http://www.zambetti.com/projects/liveview/

19. TEST TEST TEST
Paper Prototype

20. Conclusion
Efficient workflows != Shortcuts
You are good
You want to make good stuff

21. Fin.