Find out how to build real world user experiences using Adobe's newest products: Flash Catalyst and Flex Gumbo. I'll explore some best practices and pitfalls to watch out for in these early beta tools while building a prototype application from design through deployment. The audience will leave with an understanding of what these tools provide in their current builds, how they can be leveraged in the designer/developer workflow and some best practices for how to leverage their functionality in their own designs. I will provide all the source code and design notes for the application that we'll build.
3. What’s Experience Design?
‘The physical engagements between people, design,
computers (web technologies), and processes through
which the activation of a brand takes place.’
4. What’s Experience Design?
‘The physical engagements between people, design,
computers (web technologies), and processes through
which the activation of a brand takes place.’
Also termed UX or User Experience Design
5. What’s Experience Design?
‘The physical engagements between people, design,
computers (web technologies), and processes through
which the activation of a brand takes place.’
Also termed UX or User Experience Design
Multi-discipline: information architect, graphic design,
interaction design, cognitive sciences, usability
engineer, etc...
6.
7. • 8GB Flash Drive
• 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 ppi
• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
• Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC,
MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple
Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
18. Typical Deliverables for an XD Pro
Project objectives
User needs - What problem are we solving?
Application de nition statement (big picture)
19. Application de nition statement for iPhoto:
“Easy to use digital photo
editing, organizing, and
sharing app for casual and
amateur photographers.”
- John Geleynse,
User Experience Evangelist, Apple
20. Application de nition statement for iPhoto:
“Easy to use digital photo
editing, organizing, and
sharing app for medical
imaging professionals.”
- John Geleynse,
User Experience Evangelist, Apple
21. Typical Deliverables for an XD Pro
Project objectives
User needs - What problem are we solving?
Application statement
22. Typical Deliverables for an XD Pro
Project objectives
User needs - What problem are we solving?
Application statement
User Personas
23. Persona: Fred Fish
Fred Fish, Director of Food Services Background information
> Fred works at Boise Controls, a mid-sized manufacturer Fred grew up before computers and the Web were popular. He’s picked
of electronic devices used in home security systems. up enough to get by, but he’d rather use a cutting board than a keyboard.
> He supervises the chefs at each of the six sites and He started as a cook in a small restaurant and worked his way up to chef
oversees cafeterias and catering services. in a larger kitchen, then chef/manager of a small chain, and now works
> Not a big computer user, Fred can send email and use at Boise Controls. He’s a good manager and has seen many of his cooks
spreadsheets, but often needs help from his assistant. and chefs move on to their own restaurants, which pleases him.
> Personal: 55 years old, married, three grown children, Sometimes he prepares menus on his computer, but he might also write
Masters degree from Johnson & Wales University. them on paper and give it to his assistant to distribute.
“I’m a chef. Let’s get out of the office and into the kitchen!”
Key goals meal. They spend time in the kitchen On a good day, he can drag in some clip art
exploring each new dish. and do some formatting with fonts.
As a manager, Fred doesn’t get his hands
(literally) dirty the way he used to. He stops in When they settle on the quarterly menu, he He always had problems sending a message
at all the Boise Controls sites and sticks his sends the information out to the chefs, without the attachment, or an attachment
fingers into things once in awhile to stay in assistant chefs, site managers and his own with no message. That’s annoying and
touch with cooks and cooking. boss. embarrassing. That was one of the things
keeping him away from computers.
He wants to learn his computer tools, but not Some days, he asks his assistant to format the
at the expense of managing his people or menus. Other times he’ll do it with the new EZWRite seems to have some features to help
kitchens. EZWrite system they just installed on his with that. Anytime he writes something like
Macintosh laptop. “…the attached menu…” the program
Preparing & distributing menus prompts him if he doesn’t attach something. If
At the start of every quarter, he meets with the He’s figured out a lot of it, but not all of it. there were a Nobel Prize for software, he’d
head chefs and plans out the next quarter’s “One day,” he thinks, “someone has to figure nominate the people who designed this.
menus. That’s one of his favorite things out a way to reuse a menu layout so I don’t
because each chef gets to demonstrate a new have to start from scratch each time.”
Photo from Flickr, some rights reserved
source: http://www.user.com
24. Typical Deliverables for an XD Pro
Project objectives
User needs - What problem are we solving?
Application statement
User Personas
25. Typical Deliverables for an XD Pro
Project objectives
User needs - What problem are we solving?
Application statement
User Personas
Flow diagrams
26. Typical Deliverables for an XD Pro
Project objectives
User needs - What problem are we solving?
Application statement
User Personas
Flow diagrams
Wireframes
27. Typical Deliverables for an XD Pro
Project objectives
User needs - What problem are we solving?
Application statement
User Personas
Flow diagrams
Wireframes
Prototypes - Low Fidelity > High Fidelity
36. Enter Flash Catalyst!
Disclaimer:
I don’t work for Adobe.
I’m working on assumptions based on the MAX build.
Current application build doesn’t entirely support my
proposed approach.
43. The XD Pro’s Work ow with Catalyst
‘Boxes and Arrows’ in Catalyst
44. The XD Pro’s Work ow with Catalyst
‘Boxes and Arrows’ in Catalyst
Low delity prototypes in Catalyst
45. The XD Pro’s Work ow with Catalyst
‘Boxes and Arrows’ in Catalyst
Low delity prototypes in Catalyst
Iterate through higher delity prototypes in Catalyst
46. The XD Pro’s Work ow with Catalyst
‘Boxes and Arrows’ in Catalyst
Low delity prototypes in Catalyst
Iterate through higher delity prototypes in Catalyst
Catalyst to CS4 for introduction of styling and theme
47. The XD Pro’s Work ow with Catalyst
‘Boxes and Arrows’ in Catalyst
Low delity prototypes in Catalyst
Iterate through higher delity prototypes in Catalyst
Catalyst to CS4 for introduction of styling and theme
CS4 to Catalyst for high delity prototypes
48. The XD Pro’s Work ow with Catalyst
‘Boxes and Arrows’ in Catalyst
Low delity prototypes in Catalyst
Iterate through higher delity prototypes in Catalyst
Catalyst to CS4 for introduction of styling and theme
CS4 to Catalyst for high delity prototypes
CS4/Catalyst/Flex round-trip very high delity
