This document provides an overview of smartwatches, including their key features and limitations for app development. It discusses the Apple Watch and other smartwatch platforms, important design considerations like limited screen sizes and interactions, and challenges related to battery life, data transfer speeds and memory constraints. The document emphasizes the importance of context-aware apps that minimize inputs and extend functionality to paired phones.

1. All about
SmartWatches
How and why to build watch apps with
Brian Pullen @wisebeard

2. A smart watch is just an under
powered phone or a digital
watch with a few tricks.
-Some smartass

3. This is the year that
smart watches take off

4. Apple Watch All others

5. The smart watch has
five killer features today
NotificationsTime keepingFashion Fitness Payments

6. Your phone is
ruining your life.
-Jonny Ive

7. Life Get lost in phone
More time for life
Source: @lukew

8. What if you could make a
device that you wouldn’t
or couldn’t use for hours
at a time?
-Apple

9. People care about little increases
in speed and convenience
A change from 6 sections to 2 seconds is an eternity

10. Your magic key to
the world

11. Some of the best applications
that will be created will focus
on hardware

12. Source: @lukew

13. SmartWatches are not a
stand alone platform rather
an extension of mobile

14. So watches are great,
how do I make an app?

15. Apple Watch LG Watch UrbanePebble Time Moto 360Huawei Watch Pebble Time LG G Watch R
Samsung Gear S Smart Watch 3 ASUS Zen WatchSamsung Gear 2 Garmin Epix Runcible LG G Watch

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17. Apple Watch LG Watch UrbanePebble Time Moto 360Huawei Watch Pebble Time LG G Watch R
Samsung Gear S Smart Watch 3 ASUS Zen WatchSamsung Gear 2 Garmin Epix Runcible LG G Watch

18. Consolidation
will happen quickly
Smartphone, price, features

19. Let’s design
an FITC app

21. Navigational style

22. Schedule & event
Tables, button styles, handoff

23. Design tips
Edgeless design
Rounded corners
Large type

25. Context menus
Global actions
Custom icon
Long tap

26. Design tip
Limit inputs

27. Short look

28. Long look
Extend to phone
Auto dismiss button
Basic styling

29. Modals
Scroll or swipe
Can’t use NFC
Has to close

30. Glances
Strict layout guides
No interactivity
Single tap

32. Screen sizes
Unique images
Scalable assets

33. Icons
Won’t always have a label
Create various sizes

34. Pro Tips

35. Battery is a big challenge
18 hours 7 days 2 days

36. Data transfer and speed
50MB limit, 2mb cache for images. Low energy bluetooth

37. Animation
8-10 fps for pushed animations
30 fps for app bundle animations
Launch animations are not yet possible
Memory constraints

38. An interaction could
last only five sections,
10 at most.
-Apple designers

39. Don’t create Instagram
It literally takes four taps to “like” a picture

40. Limited SDK
Heart rate
Sound
Taptic
Storage
Motion
NFC
Bluetooth
Watch Faces

41. Content Context
is king

42. There is no app for that
Context means that rather than opening an app for every
action we can just have the appropriate one available at
the time we need it.

43. Work & Experimentation
TSN Globe & Mail Octee Pet FITC

44. Lets talk about Smartwatches @wisebeard
or email me brian.pullen@twg.ca
Thanks