Designing and Delivering Life Content

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Why web designers should be interested in designing content-based native (and Web) mobile apps for people with big ideas.Because it's been happening for 500 years...

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Designing and delivering

Life Contentfor anyone who needs it(wherever they need it)

Kristofer LayonSXSW 2011

Moab, Utah

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The graphic presentation of content started 12-15,000 years ago

Mesak Settafet, Libya

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Why were they made?

• storytelling

• wayfinding

• life content

Why were petroglyphs made?

Printing PressJohannes Gutenberg1441

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The world’s most popular tablet has been around for 500 years already.

Martin Luther1483-1546

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And here’s the world’s first mobile app developer. The app was the Bible, translated from Latin to German.

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The marriage of tech and content. This is not a new idea... and it’s always been about content more than tech.

Martin Luther

• democratized content

★ through translation and increased access

• made life content mobile

PhotographyJoseph Niépce1826

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Film / Motion PicturesEadweard Muybridge1878

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PhonographThomas Edison1899

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“Multimedia”

• 19th century innovations

• barely over 100 years old!

• foundation of our work today(SXSW is about all of it, right?)

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London Underground MapHarry Beck1931

The 20th century brought us graphic design: making complex data and stories more simple and elegant.

Apple ISteve Wozniak and Steve Jobs1976

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Apple IIApple Computer, Inc.1977

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MacintoshApple Computer, Inc.1984

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Apple’s been doing mobile devices since 1984...

PowerBookApple Computer, Inc.1991

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...trying to get it right...

MacintoshApple Computer, Inc.1993

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Dudes... not quite there...

iTunesApple Computer, Inc.2001

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*ding* It’s about content, isn’t it, Apple?

iPodApple Computer, Inc.2001

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So now we need a pocket computer for our life content.

January 9, 2007

• Apple Computer, Inc. becomesApple, Inc.

• new focus on life content

iPhoneApple, Inc.2007

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This pocket computer just has a better screen. And a Phone app.

Mobile applications

• storytelling

• wayfinding

• life content

ArtAlphabetAesthete Software, LLC2009

My first app was content I could design. It was my only app idea.

ArtAlphabetAesthete Software, LLC2009

The opportunity to design native apps with Web Standards.

The only development framework featured on Apple.com. I was sold.

(Android version launched last fall)

Web Standards

• HTML

• CSS

• JavaScript

The pillars of today’s Web. But it’s now about more than the Web layer. Web Standards can inform other layers of the Internet, too --- like native apps and app store content.

OrthoAnatomyAesthete Software, LLC2010

OrthoAnatomyAesthete Software, LLC2010

Web Standards

• Aren’t just for the Web…

• …also for other layers of the Internet

★ Email, Twitter, App Stores

My book’s goals

• Provide better documentationfor Xcode and NimbleKit

• Cover app design from A-Z

• Orient you to distribution(iTunesConnect + App Store)

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