Design to-dos

Design To-do’sAnusha Iyer | UX Designer

!@dovetailed_ux | dovetailed.co

!01.07.2014

Understand the contextContext = People, Activity, Situations, Constraints

Understanding leads to insights

Seek inspiration from experiences and life

around you

Seek inspiration from pattern libraries

But don’t copy+paste blindly!

Inspiration + Insights = IdeasKeep your senses peeled for the above

and play, a lot

Look for patterns & aim for convergence

Good design is like summertimeYou don’t layer up!

Remove more, add less

Mobile is madness

Reduce cognitive load Everything need not be visible all the time

Designing for mobile makes you a better designer

Omni-present companion Engaging, distracting

Helpful, annoying

Be light & iterative

Interactivity, challenges and rewards helps learner

engagement

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Everyone enjoys a good story! !

Good design is good story telling

Using metaphors structures content into a good narrative

Understand the context Converge and declutter Go mobile Tell a good engaging story

Summery summary

Nest, the thermostat that learns your patterns

nest.com

Temporary recipe tattoos so your books or tablet devices don't need to know what you've been cooking

fastcodesign.com

Using lo-fi design intervention to generate a social media solutionSpotted on Twitter

Using a metaphor to gamify and make an otherwise info heavy website into engaging narrative for pre-uni teenagers by comparing uni life to adventure and backpacking

Using a metaphor of folded piece of paper (portable like a map) for interaction on a mobile learning app

Ain't no sunshine

Whose light is it anyway?

Are you sure? I'm getting mixed signals here

Several ways of getting to London. Which one would you like? You have all day to decide

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Tab

Thank you

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