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How mobile payments will change your life
“A day in the life”
A day in the life for a modern consumer living their life through advanced mobile functionality experiences.
Tag: mobile
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iOS Casino App for the iphone
TL;DR; While the gambling industry continues to boom despite global financial woes, a reliance solely on branding through splash screens has its limitations. This post dives into why your home screen deserves more attention. Showcase promortaionl content, search (as navigation maybe?) and Quick Links as crucial building blocks, including introducing the popular hamburger icon for primary navigation and transform your home screen into landing page(s) into a powerhouse of usability and brand identity.
Brief
Next to essentials like food and water, one of the only other industries not effected by the world financial situation is gambling. In fact the industry is booming. There are many UX challenges in designing the perfect game play experience, catering for the green fingered punter all the way through to the seasoned veteran is a difficult balancing act.
Plus, as mentioned, in these more straighten times, to be conscious of not forcing the gambling experience on to the more vulnerable.Splash screen
Modern smartphone don’t need 2-3 seconds to start up, so the original notion of the start-up or splash screen is now redundant. But brands love to position their logo ‘front of stall’ so for this reason, this screen is important. Keep it simple and remember, if you can’t get your brand message over in 2-3 seconds, think about a re-design.
Home
This is the heart of the application, the place to show off what you have to offer – the ‘showcase‘ if you like. So make it impressive, make it big and try your best to impress.
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Mobile best practice for registration – Put the users needs before technology
User Registration on Mobile
Watch the animated version hereI have recently been involved in both high-level concept generation through to territory specific text changes in the exiting world of User Registration. These are my top 5 tips to help you streamline your process or find some inspiration.
1. Do not turn-off your client
Very early on you begin to realise that you, as a UX designer answering to Business and shakeholders alike, should avoid providing a dry and labour-intensive solution to what is a tedious process. This will inevitable put off, or turn off, potential new customers from the start. So, as they walk through your virtual door, try to present a broken-down and achievable process where they can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Don’t forget : Break your offer into bite-sized chunks
Regulations possibly dictate that your customers will need to supply certain information. If so, have them supply that information up-front. That way you, as a caring and customer-centric company can temporally capture that info and call them back should they drop-off. Then you can ask ‘Is everything allright? Can we help you further with your registration?”
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What’s your favourite wire-framing style?
Pick your battles, know your styles
Whether for desktops, on a tablet or the this mythical idea of a mobile internet (there is only one web to experience – but that a different post!) the modern UX-er should be skilled in the art of wire-framing. The style you use should come from the answers to these three things:
- Process – From low-fidelity through to fully functioning prototypes is the sure-fire route to excellence. In reality, how often does this really happen. If you have enforce a process, I would insist on the sketching and on the final design stages.
- Resources – I have sat in top-level boardroom meetings in the most stylish settings in the capital, tea and coffee from all over the world. Clearly, resources were not a factor here – so you would be expected to know Azure inside out and be expected to roll-out full functioning Fireworks prototypes. You may even get some business heads thinking your protoypes were so good , it’s a done job!
- Quick turnaround – Picture the scenario, your stakeholder is looking for a quick – fix. You have fought your corner but there are no requirements, no analysis, no nothing. Always try to push for more than a few scribbles on the back of napkin but sometimes it is more productive just to get on with it.
Depending on the answers to these issues will depend on the wireframing style you deploy
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iOS Splash Pages – What’s the deal?
Every app needs an app icon and a launch image. This presentation concentrates on the all important Splash Screen
Sometimes you have to just stick on the headphones, crank up the tunes and grind through the dullest part of your iOS project. And that’s slavishly grind out the assets for all the iOS family, particularly the Splash Pages.
Here, for the splash screens I have broken down as follows:
- Size for iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation)
- Size for high-resolution iPhone and iPod touch
- Size for iPhone and iPod touch
- Size for high-resolution iPad
- Size for iPad
For your iPhone
There is basically three sizes for portrait mode, for the most recent iPhone 5 or iPod Touch 5th Generation (as of present 2013), for the iPhone 4 and 4S users out there and for you laggards, the iPhone 3 users.
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Top 10 tips on improving your mobile gambling offer
Mobile gambling, if you’ve watched any live commercial sporting event, is big business. Mobile gambling is at the forefront, keep my Top 10 points in your UX Playbook when designing for this sector
Hard Skills:Journey Mapping
Research
Visual Design
Soft Skills:Empathy
Collaboration
Critical Thinking
Recently, I have been both at the coal-face and negotiating with stakeholders to define what makes a great gambling offer. Here is my Top 10 tips on improving your mobile gambling offer.
1.0 Make it beautiful
Implement design rules is also a top tip. For example, instituting a one-size fits all font size policy across your offer can not only eliminate lengthy design discussion each time a new element is introduced but also guarantee legibility on the small screen.
2.0 Minimalist approach
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