Pathway #1: Network efficient UX design
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Working rural & remote with the Lumia 2520
The path led me over a small hill. To the right were fields ploughed into undulating patterns and to my left a haze blanketed the North Sea. There’s a bench up here, miles from the nearest town, wide enough to serve as a makeshift desk and s…
A predictably better user experience
Microsoft Research has suggested a method to overcome the latency which can hamper the user experience of network-hosted services, such as connected Xbox games. The DeLorean approach relies on predicting user behaviour so that servers can calcula…
Recognising a moment of mobile progress
Yesterday I was able to watch a live stream of Google’s IO keynote from San Francisco on a Blackberry Q10 travelling at up to 70 mph as a passenger in a moving car through the rural East of England.
It represented one of those watershed mom…
Retro trend calls out poor voice experience
Blackberry has announced the re-availability of the Bold 9900, a 3 year old, USD 449 device running the previous generation of Blackberry software, but renowned for its battery life, voice call quality and keyboard. Meanwhile, there are a …
Customers measure overall performance
Users with a 4G subscription are more likely to give their handset a higher satisfaction rating than users of the same handset who do not have access to the faster network. According to data gathered by On Device Research, the top 5 handsets were …
MEX Sessions: Tom Godber on creating network efficient UX
Tom Godber gave this May 2011 talk at MEX on designing network efficient experiences. Building on his own experiences of creating efficient apps, he talked about the balance between placing low load on inherently unreliable wireless networks …
Prioritising relative speed
YOUi Labs‘ CEO Jason Flick was clear about his priority when we met at Mobile World Congress: speed. His company provides a cross-platform layer which enables designers to build interfaces in Adobe After Effects, transpose them with a minimal amo…
Speed
Perception of speed has a defining role in adoption of new technology, customer satisfaction and utility. When presented with multiple digital touchpoints, users gravitate towards and prioritise those which offer the lowest latency.
Consider, …