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The Principles of UX Choreography

40 points by sriku 11y ago

thomasfl 11y ago
The term "UX choreograpy" is good, but "functional animations" seems easier to sell to clients if you're a UX designer There has been several blogs about UX mentioning Disney lately. This one is the best so far.
brador 11y ago
Anyone know what they're using to make those iPhone screen gifs?
- pmontra 11y ago
  I wish they were GIFs. Actually the are .ogv which I can't see on my Android tablet (and probably neither on iOS). I had to go to the computer to see them. To answer you're question: I have no direct experience but check this http://www.apptamin.com/blog/capture-iphone-ipad-screen-video/ http://www.apptamin.com/blog/capture-iphone-ipad-screen-vide...
- toddmorey 11y ago
  Not very well known, but iOS screen recording is now baked into the Quicktime app: http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/record-iphone-screen-quicktime/ http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/record-iphone-screen-quicktime/ From there, you could export the results to a variety of formats. For gif, check out the app GifBrewery.
paulojreis 11y ago
I'm not going to argue against the benefits of choreographing user interface elements, as I deeply believe in it. However, it saddens me (quite a lot) to see all UX articles saying and assuming "this is best for the user", "the user thinks/works this way", "this will clarify", without ever presenting the minimum piece of evidence to support such claims. Isn't/shouldn't UX be truly user centered and user focused? If so, why do we insist on centering everything around our preconceptions and common sense ideas, instead of actually grounding it on data collected from and with real users?
mhomde 11y ago
Nice article! I think the biggest UX issues in current mobile OS is gratuitous animations and lack of cohesiveness. Many have transitions that are too long and too much. It's like drinking overly sweet soda, the first sips are nice but you don't want to drink a whole bottle. Animations should be inverse in scope to how often they are displayed. There's also a tendency of "teleporting" you between pages without a clear spatial navigation structure. Material tries to be fancy by morphing pages to tie pages together but I still think a more linear and clear page navigation would be easier to grasp.
- dhimes 11y ago
  For me it's the ads that require a high level of concentration to not click. CNN's mobile is awful (web site is getting worse too, for that matter). I generate several false clicks every time I'm on the site. The advertisers are getting soaked I'm sure. Even if CNN refunds a certain percentage of clicks, unless that percentage is upwards of 100% of mine, the advertisers are paying for unintentional clicks. As a user, it really sucks to try to scroll to see more of an article only to be taken out of the article to your browser.

40 points by sriku 11y ago

The term "UX choreograpy" is good, but "functional animations" seems easier to sell to clients if you're a UX designer There has been several blogs about UX mentioning Disney lately. This one is the best so far.

brador 11y ago

Anyone know what they're using to make those iPhone screen gifs?

pmontra 11y ago
I wish they were GIFs. Actually the are .ogv which I can't see on my Android tablet (and probably neither on iOS). I had to go to the computer to see them. To answer you're question: I have no direct experience but check this http://www.apptamin.com/blog/capture-iphone-ipad-screen-video/ http://www.apptamin.com/blog/capture-iphone-ipad-screen-vide...
toddmorey 11y ago
Not very well known, but iOS screen recording is now baked into the Quicktime app: http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/record-iphone-screen-quicktime/ http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/record-iphone-screen-quicktime/ From there, you could export the results to a variety of formats. For gif, check out the app GifBrewery.

paulojreis 11y ago

I'm not going to argue against the benefits of choreographing user interface elements, as I deeply believe in it. However, it saddens me (quite a lot) to see all UX articles saying and assuming "this is best for the user", "the user thinks/works this way", "this will clarify", without ever presenting the minimum piece of evidence to support such claims. Isn't/shouldn't UX be truly user centered and user focused? If so, why do we insist on centering everything around our preconceptions and common sense ideas, instead of actually grounding it on data collected from and with real users?

mhomde 11y ago

Nice article! I think the biggest UX issues in current mobile OS is gratuitous animations and lack of cohesiveness. Many have transitions that are too long and too much. It's like drinking overly sweet soda, the first sips are nice but you don't want to drink a whole bottle. Animations should be inverse in scope to how often they are displayed. There's also a tendency of "teleporting" you between pages without a clear spatial navigation structure. Material tries to be fancy by morphing pages to tie pages together but I still think a more linear and clear page navigation would be easier to grasp.

dhimes 11y ago
For me it's the ads that require a high level of concentration to not click. CNN's mobile is awful (web site is getting worse too, for that matter). I generate several false clicks every time I'm on the site. The advertisers are getting soaked I'm sure. Even if CNN refunds a certain percentage of clicks, unless that percentage is upwards of 100% of mine, the advertisers are paying for unintentional clicks. As a user, it really sucks to try to scroll to see more of an article only to be taken out of the article to your browser.