10 tips to a great mobile website by wayne chen
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10 Great Tips To Get You Started With Your Mobile Website Project. Perfect for marketers and product managers who wants to maximize their time and avoid pitfalls.TRANSCRIPT
¡ All your friends have one ¡ More than 5% of your site
traffic is mobile ¡ More than 10 customer
complained ¡ You boss said to get it
done ¡ You want to grow your
vertical ¡ You are pumped that your
company is adapting!
© 2012 -2013 Wayne Chen! Wayne @PocketSquareMedia.co!
¡ These tips have been selected to help you as you go through your mobile website design.
¡ Understand that every website is different § Business type § Content § Customers § Graphics § Engagement purpose
© 2012 -2013 Wayne Chen! Wayne @PocketSquareMedia.co!
¡ Find out what your website is running on § Is it scalable?
¡ What kind of content exist on your website? § Structure
¡ Graphic asset inventory?
¡ Spend the necessary time to go through your assets
¡ Map out what you want to do in the short-‐term and for the future
¡ How much time will it take you?
¡ What resources or budget will be available to you?
¡ Get executive buy-‐in
¡ What devices are used to access your website?
¡ How do you design for those screens? § iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry
§ Size of each group
¡ What do they want? ¡ What do you want to show?
¡ What makes them want to visit your website?
¡ How much time is spent on mobile versus web?
¡ Define the use cases of the site visitor
¡ What tasks are being carried out on your website?
¡ Are they in the subway or at the office?
¡ Understanding user context will go a long way
¡ Visitors expect to perform similar tasks on mobile
¡ Provide a desktop link ¡ Don’t overwhelming visitors with a ton of content and mobile drill downs
¡ Optimize your core content
¡ Adjust display of content, layout and graphics
¡ Interactions should be “touch/tap” not “click”
¡ Leverage features of the device
¡ Tailor the experience
¡ Use your in-‐house developers
¡ Leave Flash if you use it on your website
¡ Leverage JavaScript/CSS
¡ There is a trade off with HTML5 or going mobile
¡ Perform ACID test ¡ Web/Mobile Browsers
¡ Stick to OS UI guidelines to avoid confusion
¡ Look & Feel are important to mobile device users
¡ Understand the difference
¡ Responsive design is the backbone to your mobile design
¡ Define the number of columns (not excel sheet)
¡ Fixed spacing is preferable for content heavy sites
¡ Make your site modular
Contact information ¡ Wayne Chen ¡ [email protected] ¡ www.PocketSquareMedia.co
© 2012 -2013 Wayne Chen! Wayne @PocketSquareMedia.co!