UX – User experience *All content in this presentation is personal opinion. User Experience is any aspect of a person's interaction with a given system, including the interface, graphics, industrial design, physical interaction, and the manual. -wikipedia Matthew Miley PS GISP CT Consultants

If you take the red pill. You will have to think about UX. Morpheus: “You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” (AKA become a developer) You will have to think about UX with the way computing is now. Kids grow up with iPads now (NOT MS WINDOWS)

Design software/webpages for your audience! This is scary to normal people!

Content before Chrome Show the absolute minimum users need to accomplish their mission!

BAD Don’t allow for IDing of a million layers

GOOD Don’t have a million layers!!!! You decide on base mapping!!

Advice for beginners Become a SQL guru. Become a Python guru. Develop native applications for whatever platform is most practical. In most cases, there isn't a 1 size fits all HTML 5 solution!

Reason why native is better for us. Location services (higher accuracy GPS) 3-axis gyroscope 3-axis accelerometer Digital compass Ambient light sensor. Design for known screen ratios.

I use an iPad everyday and I never use HTML 5 APPs. (tried many) Remember when the Facebook app for iPhone sucked?

More Ref. & Demo Question: Matt, why didn’t you take design into consideration when making this power point? Answer: To lazy.