Universal Mind’s multi-device initiative
We at Universal Mind are starting our Multi Device initiative showcasing enterprise applications with a consistent user experience on various devices. We created a sample application that was designed to work on several devices iPad, iPhone, Android, Web, and Kiosk (Blackberry, HTML 5 and Silverlight coming soon). Coming from a UX perspective there were a lot of challenges as we went through our UX process.
We wanted a way to showcase all the devices in a quick way so we created a short video reel of all the devices.
I have some screen shots of the persona’s, wireframes and design framework below.
Persona samples
Wireframe samples
Design Framework samples
Update: I have all of the assets uploaded to a flickr set here http://www.flickr.com/photos/38944900@N03/sets/72157624177210361/
You can read more about here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20100615/bs_prweb/prweb4137874
Nice work guys! App(s) are awesome. Video is awesome.
Great work! I recently was introduced to a project where data was referenced from a phone onto a different platform and to not bridge the familiarity of the source UI (while being mindful of input differences, of course) really struck me as a missed opportunity. The balance of consistency and context is met nicely with your new initiative.
Nice work (again!). What kind of tools do you use to build the same application on Android and IPad?
Carlos,
The iPad, iPhone and Android are natively built, Obj-C for the apple stuff and Java for the Android. The only Flash/Flex used is in the web application and the multi-touch Kiosk. The big challenge was building a consistent feel and keeping the UX for each device consistent with user familiarity.
Thanks
Hi Joe,
Native UI or Consistent UI is one of my main concern at this moment. Our company is developing desktop applications on top of Adobe Air and we’re starting mobile development. Air on Android looks promising but isn’t clearly bullet proof. IPhone and IPad is a very interesting market, and here in Portugal it’s growing and growing and growing… It’s really hard, for a small company, to have developers with Objective-C knowledge and Java and Air, etc… We were expecting that the Openscreenproject iniciative could help us, in order to make one single development for all platforms, but we’re loosing hope.
Your post is really great. Thumbs up for you and Universal Mind!