User Experience Design Consultant Shares Tips for Global App Characteristics
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2. Linguistic background
Founder of Pureplexity – digital agency
Responsible for User Experience Design
External consultancy for Windows 8
Projects for Thomas Cook, Quick, Mercedes
Benz, … .
3. GLOBAL APP CHARACTERISTICS
• Interaction
• Focused
• Belongs to the user
• Needs to solve a problem / be
useful
• Mobile use
4. A good consistent Experience
Define the goal of the app
Strategise the content
Build Information Architecture
Identify the brand
5. DO MORE WITH AUTHENTICALLY LEVERAGE THE PRIDE IN
CONTENT FIRST LESS DIGITAL WIN AS ONE BRAND CRAFTSMANSHIP
6. Keep a USER-centred approach, keeping the
SITUATION into account.
Learning curve
Added value for user
Informing vs utility
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11. Think beyond guidelines & templates
Extended reach: tablets, phones but also
laptops, PC’s…
Not only mobile apps, but touch apps in
showrooms, musea, … .
Together, this forms the Metro style app silhouetteA silhouette provides an anchor for the eyes
You can tell right away that these are Metro style apps. The consistent top, left, and bottom margins forms a ‘C’ shaped silhouette, along with the intentional “peeking” of more content on the right indicate the panning direction (horizontal, and there is more content on the right).