<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Here's an interesting challenge for the young folk learning about interface design for small devices. It relates to U1O3KK10 for next year: "characteristics of effective user interfaces for mobile devices..."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">The smartwatch is a recent development that raises very interesting questions about interface constraints. For example...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/08/google-just-made-smartwatch-faces-actually-useful/">http://www.wired.com/2015/08/google-just-made-smartwatch-faces-actually-useful/</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">If you need some quiet time one day in unit 1, get your kids to design a smartwatch interface that gives maximum information, readability and accessibility in a space of only about 3.5cm diameter.</font></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">That might keep them quiet for a while.</div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div>Mark Kelly<br></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZV04xVUpCaVJTbHc&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZaG9iYzlkRTE2YkVkS2x0Mk4vM1Fja3BYdFYwPQ"><br></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZN1ZEdkJ3aHdLUjA&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZcENFZ21BMmczdy9FRzcvSmgrQ2w3d2M4Nkl3PQ"><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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