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Closing Panel at HTML5TX Conference

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Closing Panel at HTML5TX ConferenceTheme: Where has HTML5 come with the diversity of devices

Panelists: Christopher Schmitt, Ryan Joy, Burke Holland,  Estelle Weyl, Joe McCann, Mike Taylor

What is future-friendly?

Joe: being future-friendly with the web is supporting mobile, but a better strategy is a content strategy for all devices and where they are used. It’s okay to think of web browsers as end points, but your content should be able to live in all environments.

Desktop. Laptop. Smartphone. Tablet. Phablet. Xbox. PS Vita. Smart TVs.  That’s a lot of places your content can live.  Building specific experiences for each one of these simply doesn’t scale.  Let’s find out why and how to tackle such an enormous problem.

Being “”Future Friendly”” is not necessarily just a visual or interaction design decision, but an architectural decision as well.  Furthermore, being “”Future Friendly”” is not about the web or native:  it’s both and more.

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Adaptive Images for Responsive Web Design

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by Christopher Schmitt at HTML5 Texas Conference, Austin, Texas (Deck)

“The open web doesn’t stop at our desktop. Smart phones and tablets not only contain more computing power and better browsers than the computers that started the Internet economy, they have better displays.In this session presented by Christopher Schmitt, we will work through tips and tricks to develop future friendly images in our sites and apps.”

Adaptive Images in Responsive Web Design

Think about the iPad, which presents so many design challenges. It can be wi-fi only or 3G, so bandwidth issues can be present. It has retina, so there can be display issues. When you design for web, you want to have great-looking images, but how do we get higher resolution images to those devices.

Why don’t we ask the browser? http://www.usearagentstring.com/ Available since the first browser Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), but browser put tons of stuff in the user agent string and can be spoofed. Instead of asking the browser, we do feature testing.

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Waze Gets You There

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Waze community driving app helps drivers on the roadWaze is a community driving app that makes commuting easier. I’ve been a Wazer, using the Waze driving app, for a couple of years now and it has become part of my daily routine. According to Waze, they are all about contributing to the common good out there on the road and by connecting drivers to one another, they “help people create local driving communities that work together to improve the quality of everyone’s daily driving.” Waze is all about avoiding the frustration of sitting in traffic or running into a police trap and wants to help shave five minutes off of your regular commute by showing you new routes that you never may have discovered otherwise.

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Killer App Design with Javascript and HTML 5

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HTML5 and Complex Web Apps

Web 2.0 vs HTML5 apps

Web 2.0

  • Dynamic content
  • Database driven
  • Social applications
  • Stupid name
  • “The Internet is more than lame dancing genies and hit counters!”

HTML5 Apps

  • Interactive content
  • Real-time
  • Task-oriented
  • Cool logo
  • “You can have a desktop experience in your browser”
  • Not trying to replicate a desktop software experience.

HTML5 – New Markup (separating functionality and presentation in the DOM with data-* attributes)

Amazing JavaScript APIs

Application Architecture

Lots of tools available that will allow for a more robust application development process.

  • Moving state to the client
  • Wep app Kool-Aid: MVC/MVVM, pub/sub and the module pattern
  • Your application as an API

Don’t do it alone

Toolkits, precompilers, boilerplates, and more

For the enterprise-y among you

Testing, IDEs and other developer tools

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Search on Mobile Devices: The Next Frontier

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Moderator:
Sundeep Kapur, Digital Evangelist, NCR Corp.
Speakers:
Lynne Kurdziel, Founder & CEO, Luminate Marketing
Angie Schottmuller, Founder, Interactive Artisan

Lynne Kurdziel of Luminate Marketing
Lynne Kurdziel of Luminate Marketing

how mobile is changing content and what it means to business

Lynne Kurdziel

Top 5 impacts of mobile on business and non-profits

  1. localization
  2. immediacy – we can provide timely content that would be less useful if you had to wait
  3. shareability – you can share anything with anyone at any time
  4. media mobility
  5. divergent platforms – challenge of variability in what users have available

You can use mobile to streamline business processes and and create quick marketing media. User generated content and a streamlined data collection process creates freshness for SEO. What does conversion look like for ministries and non-profits? Donations, support, partnerships.

Non-profits are using apps to be able to share their mission and receive donations anywhere.

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Luke Wroblewski – Designing Mobile Web Experiences

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UIE Web App Master’s Tour – Seattle, Washington – May 24, 2011

Convincing Clients to Care

Luke Wroblewski - Designing Mobile Web Experiences
Luke Wroblewski - Designing Mobile Web Experiences

Prediction in 2009 that smartphones would outsell PCs in 2012, it happened in 2010.

Home usage of PC since 2008 has decreased 20%

November 2010 – visits to web-based email sites decreased 7% and people accessing email on mobile devices increased 36%

Twitter – 40% of all tweets are sent via mobile; 16% of new users start on mobile. Top 2 Twitter mobile clients – twitter.com, m.twitter.com, sms

Facebook – 33% of users use mobile via Facebook mobile website, and clients on phones

Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013

Shift from what was the personal computer (PC) to what is the personal computer (smart phone).

Capabilities & Constraints

Capabilities

Location Systems: GPS, WiFi, Cell Tower Triangulation

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Josh Clark – Mobile Apps: Native or Web-Based?

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UIE Web App Master’s Tour – Seattle, Washington – May 23, 2011

Josh Clark (author of TapWorthy) – Mobile Apps-Native or Web-Based
Josh Clark – Mobile Apps-Native or Web-Based?

Josh Clark, Author of TapWorthy

Mobile Apps

Mobile is growing quickly, with many platforms (many cultures)

App design needs to take mobile culture into accounts, how to develop for a iPhone user vs Android user, etc.

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Blackberry still has 40% of the global enterprise

  • Text-centric
  • low browser activity (blackberry browser has sucked until recently, when they adopted webkit)
  • how does your app fit into a text heavy culture

iPhone

  • active
  • high browser activity
  • spenders (big buyers – 70% of ebays mobile commerce is iPhone; eBay accounts for 25% of mobile commerce)
  • older, wealthier
  • according to OKCupid, iPhone users have more sex

Android

  • it’s about the technology
  • it’s about tools and features
  • customization
  • cutting edge
  • technically-proficient, customized