All about SmartWatches

How and why to build watch apps with Brian Pullen @wisebeard

A smart watch is just an under powered phone or a digital watch with a few tricks. -Some smartass

This is the year that smart watches take off

Apple Watch All others

The smart watch has five killer features today

NotificationsTime keepingFashion Fitness Payments

Your phone is ruining your life. -Jonny Ive

Life Get lost in phone

More time for life

Source: @lukew

What if you could make a device that you wouldn’t or couldn’t use for hours at a time?-Apple

People care about little increases in speed and convenience

A change from 6 sections to 2 seconds is an eternity

Your magic key to the world

Some of the best applications that will be created will focus

on hardware

Source: @lukew

SmartWatches are not a stand alone platform rather an extension of mobile

So watches are great, how do I make an app?

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Consolidation will happen quickly

Smartphone, price, features

Let’s design an FITC app

Navigational style

Schedule & eventTables, button styles, handoff

Design tipsEdgeless design

Rounded corners

Large type

Context menusGlobal actions

Custom icon

Long tap

Design tipLimit inputs

Short look

Long lookExtend to phone

Auto dismiss button

Basic styling

ModalsScroll or swipe

Can’t use NFC

Has to close

GlancesStrict layout guides

No interactivity

Single tap

Screen sizesUnique images

Scalable assets

IconsWon’t always have a label

Create various sizes

Pro Tips

Battery is a big challenge

18 hours 7 days 2 days

Data transfer and speed50MB limit, 2mb cache for images. Low energy bluetooth

Animation 8-10 fps for pushed animations

30 fps for app bundle animations

Launch animations are not yet possible

Memory constraints

An interaction could last only five sections, 10 at most.-Apple designers

Don’t create InstagramIt literally takes four taps to “like” a picture

Limited SDKHeart rate

Sound

Taptic

Storage

Motion

NFC

Bluetooth

Watch Faces

Content Context is king

There is no app for thatContext means that rather than opening an app for every

action we can just have the appropriate one available at

the time we need it.

Work & Experimentation

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Lets talk about Smartwatches @wisebeard or email me brian.pullen@twg.ca

Thanks