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Discover expert advice on choosing a winning mobile application strategy from Isobar North America's Senior Consultant, Bryan Maleszyk. Learn how to understand your users, set goal-oriented designs, add value efficiently, prioritize mobility, respect privacy, enhance findability, measure accurately, and think big while starting small.
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zen & the art of mobile application strategy bryan maleszyk senior consultant, isobar north america/molecular
here are 9 recommendations to help. choosing a mobile application strategy can be challenging.
1 understand your users.
not a captive audience. • Who they are. • Where they will be. • When they will be there.
Nikon Learn & Explore • Amateur/new photographers • Visual learners • Brand-agnostic
2 be goal-oriented.
results-oriented design • Yelp wants users to contribute reviews. • Their app provides the ability to draft reviews while at a restaurant.
3 add value everyware.
mobicomp is changing the way we do some very fundamental things.
the many forms of ubiquitous computing are indistinguishable from the user’s perspective and will appear to a user as aspects of a single paradigm: everyware. - Adam Greenfield
it doesn’t take long for a user to forget about the medium and focus on the message.
? mobile web app platform- specific app
mobile web app Easier to develop Location services Local data storage possible Build once, run (almost) everywhere
platform- specific app Rich media High quality graphics Offline access iPad?
4 design for mobility.
5 privacy, please.
6 be findable.
Your app here... Search
7 measure once. measure twice.
8 think big.
9 start small (and fail often).