Android Design: Beyond the Guidelines (short version)

A high level overview on putting your companies brand front and center, and how to approach unique and modern design in your Android applications.

Note: This deck was originally composed with animated content on almost every screen. Unfortunately, animated content is not available on SpeakerDeck as of the time of publishing this deck.

Transcript

1. A N D R O I D D E S I G N : B E Y O N D T H E G U I D E L I N E S P U T T I N G Y O U R B R A N D B E F O R E T H E S Y S T E M
2. K E V I N G R A N T A N D R O I D E N G I N E E R
3. O U T L I N E • S AY Y E S • T H I N K D I F F E R E N T LY • B E A D E S I G N L E A D E R
4. S AY Y E S
5. “Wouldn’t it be great if…”
6. “What do you think about…”
7. – E V E RY D E S I G N E R E V E R “How hard would it be to…”
9. N O B O D Y L I K E S S O M E O N E W H O I S D W I G H T A L L T H E T I M E .
10. • Designers aren’t trying to ruin the product (just your life) • Requests are usually reasonable • Even the unreasonable requests are still doable • Remember - You’re designing the app for your company (or client), not for Google.
11. T H I N K D I F F E R E N T LY
14. – S O M E P E O P L E I N T H I S R O O M “But I can’t design good”
15. – S A LVA D O R D A L Í “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
16. G E T I N S P I R E D B Y A P P S Y O U L O V E
17. T H I S I S Y O U R J O B
18. B E A D E S I G N L E A D E R
19. E V E RY T H I N G S TA R T E D O U T A S S O M E O N E S I D E A
20. “Wouldn’t it be great if…”
21. V I E W PA G E R S O M E O N E S I D E A
22. D O U B L E - TA P T O Z O O M S O M E O N E S I D E A
23. P U L L T O R E F R E S H S O M E O N E S I D E A aw no snaps =(
24. W H AT A B O U T T H E D R A W E R ? shoutout https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu
25. • Junk Drawer • Trash Drawer • Sloppy Design • Doing your interface wrong
26. J / K I T S A G O O D I D E A
27. S R S LY
28. – R I G H T LY S K E P T I C A L A U D I E N C E “Im hearin’ a lot of talk…”
29. S W I P E B A C K (before it was cool)
30. “Sir, that interferes with the drawer pattern.”
31. “That’s very wasteful on your applications memory footprint.”
32. “That’s not how Android is supposed to work.”
33. I T S A W E S O M E so w/ever
34. O U T L I N E • W E S A I D Y E S • W E T H O U G H T D I F F E R E N T LY • W E B E C A M E D E S I G N L E A D E R S
35. Your apps will be remembered by the rules you break
36. T H A N K Y O U kevinthebigapple.tumblr.com @kevingrant5 kevingrant@tumblr.com T U M B L R . C O M / J O B S