Monday 16th November London
Scott Weiss
Technology Manager, User Interface
Symbian Foundation

Schedule

• 09:00 Registration
• 09:30 Morning Session
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Afternoon Session
• 16:30 End of Workshop

Day Overview

This workshop will span six hours of presentations and discussions,intended to bring product marketers and designers up to speed on theavailable technologies, with frank round table talks about designstrategies, challenges, and opportunities. Four sessions will bepresented, informing delegates deeper and deeper into the methods fordesign for the latest UX technologies: touch, mobile trackballs, andAJAX.

UX Design Intro & Review

User Experience design is evolving to include seduction and persuasion.This first session will review first principles of user experience design:>ul>

• Personas (taking user segments and turning them into"real" people)
• Scenarios (taking use cases and turning them intouser stories)
• Storyboards (creating comic book-style visual stories tomake concepts more realistic)

Mobile AJAX

AJAX on the desktop enables designers to specify exact placement ofgraphics, to have widgets interact on the same screen without serverround trips, and for animated, interactive UIs in web-enabledapplications. This session digs deeper into what AJAX technologies areavailable to the developer, and how to approach design from aseductive and persuasive perspective.

Touch

Touch has revolutionised mobile phones, from iPhone to Androidto Pre and beyond. This session covers how designers andproduct managers can envision and create products thatleverage the technology in innovative and compelling ways, todelight and invigorate customer uptake. An introduction to theengineering technologies will be followed by a set of UIprinciples with video examples.

Trackballs

User interfaces that leverage touch or a five-way directional keypadhave a certain set of design standards, but what about trackballs?Gaming, productivity applications, and basic interaction capabilitiesof the phonebook, messaging, and call management require differentapproaches to input, navigation, and data entry. This session exploresdesign, documentation, and user research strategies to understandhow this technology can be effectively deployed.

Discussions & Exercises

Throughout the day, group discussions will clarify concepts and bringideas home to delegates. Short, group exercises will not only makelearning styles more interesting, but further deepen learning. Scott willalso share video clips from custom usability research preparedspecifically for this workshop. Delegates will be given electronic copiesof slides as a takeaway, along with a wrap-up document sent by emailas a follow-up.