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Interactive Primer Notes: Facebook’s Breaking Change

On January 1st 2012, The Facebook Markup Language will no longer be supported. What does this mean for you and your Facebook site? Thomas and Dan, two web developers at The Nerdery will walk you through how to test whether these changes will affect you and what to do if they will.

To access the library of past Nerdery Primers, check out vimeo.com/groups/nerderyprimers. Stay tuned to blog.nerdery.com or send an email to primers@nerdery.com to learn how to participate in upcoming sessions.

Interactive Primer Notes: New Facebook Features

Intro to User Research Recap

Intro to User Research – A Nerdery Interactive Primer

User Experience (UX) design cannot be accomplished without proper context and empathy for those who’ll interact with an app or website. Our next webinar is about how our UX team applies user research as part of our scientific approach to develop better interactive experiences tailored specifically for their intended audiences.

Nerdery UX gurus Zack N and Mike J will discuss how knowledge is power when it comes to understanding user needs, goals motivations and frustrations. We’ll cover:

• research methods: contextual inquiry/contextual observation; usability testing; surveys; card sorting; stakeholder/user interviews; site-search and web analytics
• where user research fits into the interactive design process (hint: beginning; during; after; ongoing…)
• the difference between user research and marketing research (other than we don’t do the latter)
• science!

Designing for Development: 2011 Edition

It’s amazing how much has changed in the design and development world in a little over a year after our last Designing for Development webinar.

Interactive Primer Notes: Mobile UX

I got a lot of great feedback from yesterday’s Mobile UX Primer that I decided to post the presentation video and slide deck today instead of next week. Below the slides are links to the sources for the stats and links to the GUI templates for the various mobile operating systems.

If you have a question that you would like answered, tune in to tomorrow’s webinar at 3:15 p.m. CST.

Show Notes

Sources for choosing a target OS

• StatCounter GlobalStats
• US Smartphone Statistics – Q1 2011 Overview
• Top 10 Cell Phones

Sources for the most popular phones on the market

• 2011 Compare Best Smartphones
• Best smartphones

Source for most popular tablets on the market

• Sure, the iPad has 82% Market Share, But Will it Last?

OS UI Guidelines

• UI Guidelines for mobile and tablet web app design

OS GUI Templates

• GUI Stencils, Wireframing Kits and Sketching Templates for iPad App Designers
• Handpicked Mobile GUI Design Resources
• Mobile GUI

Source for the total number of apps

• Number of apps : Apple vs Android vs Blackberry vs Windows!

Interactive Primer Notes: Embedded UX Makes Good UX

Much like chocolate and peanut butter, User Experience Designers and Interactive Developers just go together. Mike and Nick gave us a glimpse into their processes and explained how UX works at The Nerdery.

Your Facebook Q’s Have Been A’ed

You set up your Facebook questions and our unstumpable developers Konr, Dan, and Jon knocked them down. The video below is spliced together from the Tuesday and Thursday sessions which explains quick wardrobe and host changes.

Overnight Website Challenge in the News

Were you still asleep at 9:40 am? Maybe you were watching your favorite Saturday morning cartoons. If so, that means you missed our nerds Mark and Kris, along with Dana from GiveMN.org, talking to Eric Perkins from Kare 11 about the upcoming Overnight Website Challenge. It’s really too bad that you missed it because you will never be able to watch it again.

Wait… My editor is telling me, due to what can only be described as a technology miracle, the video has be posted to the internet and is able to be watched right now. Let’s go to the tape.

We’ll see you next weekend. Web pros and nonprofits, that means you should start resting up now.

Interactive Primer Notes: Flash’s Honor Has Been Defended

These are the men who will fight for Flash’s honor. Ben and Anand laid out the facts and explained where Flash currently is the better option for your interactive projects.

Our next Interactive Primer is next week and we’re answering your questions about Facebook. Be sure to RSVP and send us your questions.