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
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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Samsung Gear S Smart Watch 3 ASUS Zen WatchSamsung Gear 2 Garmin Epix Runcible LG G Watch
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
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
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
TSN Globe & Mail Octee Pet FITC
Lets talk about Smartwatches @wisebeard or email me [email protected]
Thanks