I begged the powers-that-be to send me to the UX Mobile Immersion Conference (#UXIM) in Denver, Colorado this year. I started submitting requests and rationale in November 2013. Since I got a passive aggressive “nope,” I’m living vicariously through Twitter right now, following #UXIM. There are some amazingly fun and informative tweets coming from the conference right now, my favorites listed below.
Creating apps that are ‘usable’ are the equivalent to food being ‘edible’ ” – Jared Spool
Jason Grigsby: When Responsive Design Meets the Real World
- Jason Grisgby has led us all down a responsive workflow, now he is going to tell us how wrong we all are.
- “I now use progressive JPEGs, the algorithms have gotten better”
- “Answer to responsive tables: “What are you using the table for?” Then plan #RWD around that.”
- “To do responsive web design correctly, you are probably going to need more than responsive web design”
Nate Schutta: Coding Prototypes, Even if You’ve Never Tried
- “If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many meetings is a prototype worth?”
- “Friends don’t let friends use IE 6.”
- “jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.”
Karen McGrane: Adapting Your content for Mobile
- “Print is awesome. You put the words on the paper and they stay there!”
- “Whatever the next big thing is going to be, we are going to have to get our content onto it.”
- “Thinking about where content will ‘live’ on a ‘web page’ is pretty 1999.” – Lisa Welchman via Karen McGrane
- “Imitating paper on a computer screen is like tearing the wings off a 737 & using it as a bus on the highway” Ted Nelson via Karen McGrane
- “We need systems that allow us to create content hierarchy programmatically to better translate into other platforms.”
- “Truncation is not a content strata…”
- “We have to treat content management as UX. Content creators often want to crawl back to Word & a simple WYSIWYG.”
- “The purpose of doing the inventory is not so you have an inventory, it is so you can make decisions about the content.”
- “The user’s goal is not to look at a table. It is to give them the info they need in order to complete a task.”
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