Designing Moblin for MIDs

Nick RichardsSenior Interaction Designer, Intel

MIDS002

SF 2009

Today we’re going to talk about Moblin

O HAIi’m nick richards

Hi, I’m Nick Richards. I’m an Interaction Designer working for Intel in the Opensource Technology Centre. Prior to that I’ve worked for a number of companies designing all sorts of things on Mobile, Desktop and Web.

This is my cat

MoblinMoblin is all about sharing, sociability and friendliness so I thought I’d tell you a little bit about me so you can see a little bit more about the context I’m coming from. This is my cat Linus. Yes, this does mean that I’m a huge geek.

What are we going to do today

Understand the design process

Understand the power of Moblin

See how you can take advantage

Are you a designer?

How many people here would describe themselves as a designer? Put your hands up and keep them there? Who does a bit of design as part of the other things they do? Awesome. You can put your hands down now.

Do you know what Moblin is?

Moblin is a new, Linux based operating system for netbooks, nettops, IVI and now MIDs.

If you don’t, the good news is - is that I’m going to tell you.

Do you know what a netbook is?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhook/2830322349/http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/corporate/imagebank/notebooks/insp_mini_wt_150ppi.jpg

This is a netbook

You may have heard of them, they’re taking the world by storm. Check out Renee James’ keynote tomorrow for more exciting news.

How about a MID?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhook/2830322349/

This is a MID

MIDs already exist, lots of people - not just intel are making them.

Or a phone?

How many people here would describe themselves as a designer? Put your hands up and keep them there? Who does a bit of design as part of the other things they do? Awesome. You can put your hands down now.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhook/2830322349/

This is a phone

A MID is like those bits of a phone that people actually like using these days. MID means ‘mobile internet device’ so it’s a device where the internet is the most important thing. This is very moblin. Sure, some MIDs may be able to make phonecalls, and some not - but the internet’s the thing.

This is Moblin, for MIDs

Moblinvideo available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCpIeLLoT8 THIS SHOULD BE REPLACED BY THE MID VIDEO IF IT’S READY IN TIME

What makes them different?

MIDs

= Mobile(pocketable)

Netbooks

= Nomadic(bagable)

Moblin

Building

MoblinSo, this is some stuff you should really be thinking about before you write any features. It’s mostly pretty easy stuff that anyone can do, especially the sketching and wireframing.

It starts with a sketch

MoblinThis time we needed fewer sketches than before since we were taking a product we designed and knew well. Normally we do a lot of sketching. Sketching is really important as it’s quick - so you’ve got a lot less attachment to the idea than when you’ve spent loads of time polishing it up.

Then you go to a wireframe

ThusOr two

ThusAdd some snazzy visual design

You’ll notice how this is smaller! This screen is pretty much pixel designed.

Motion is the key

Stay as simple as you can, as long as you can. Agility is vital and you can often pack in more concepts/

Some ideas work... less well

Often, the only way you know whether something works is to test it.

Then iterate the ‘info-motion’

Then you bring it all together.

What makes Moblin different

Myzone for Handsets

ThusWhat’s it made of

Moblin

e-d-s

mojito

ofono

gnome recent documents

.desktop files

gio

gconf

clutter

nbtk

css

magic

This is what the myzone is made of. Lots of different stuff

A load of technical things

So as you can see we use lots of different tech to get to the place we want to be. Clutter! Linux!

Toolbar panels: Zones

You can do more than one thing at a time! Shock!

Moblin UX, a family of design

Netbooks & MIDs: Browser visual tab switcher & zones

You may be familiar with zones from the netbook - we’ve

Notifications panel

A task oriented interface is provided by the notifications panel. We’re really excited by this. It’s a different way of interacting with your machine and works really well to Get Stuff Done.

Your application

http://www.flickr.com/photos/petergiger/3931462820/

Live life in widescreen

Portrait vs landscape

Always be in a consistent state

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theritters/3084728261/

The device may go offline. We may run out of memory. The application may be closed down or the user may lose interest. Save automatically and often.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/msittig/2630364973/

Storage is cheap; connectivity less so

Partial offline states

http://www.flickr.com/photos/msittig/2630364973/

Don’t rely on a keyboard

Virtual keyboard is to be expected. autocomplete won’t work very well

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wetwebwork/2565783762/

ThusExpected context of use

Mobile, moving. Personal.

A toolbar acts on a context

Moblin

A sidebar switches context

Moblin

Simple, simple, simple

Most of our work is removing buttons and cognitive load.

Always have personality

If your app connects with people then they’ll forgive a lot. A little personality goes a very long way BUT - be warned - it’s hard to localise.

Adapting your desktop application

ThusNetbook UI

Moblin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ksyz/3817875682/

New UI, please

Look at this desktop UI being shoved onto a mobile device.

MID UI

Drawing it all together

Moblin is for MIDs, netbooks, nettops and IVI

We’ve got world leading tech like Clutter

Design is very important for differentiation

Design principles for you to steal

useful places to go“Developing Moblin Applications” Wed 5:15pm - MOBS003

moblin.orgclutter-project.orgdesignintheopen.ning.com

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