This Week in Mobile Web Development (#143)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly February 1, 2017   #143 Brian Rinaldi recommends Ionic 2.0: Framework For Building Mobile Apps with Angular — Ionic 2.0 comes with new cross-platform components with Material Design support, a native features plugin system, and enhanced performance. Official Ionic Blog Brian Rinaldi recommends Google Introduces API for Testing 'Mobile-Friendliness' — You can now test whether Google thinks your site is “mobile-friendly” via an API, allowing you to automate the process. Google Sponsored Build your gem of an app on our jewel of a server. Linode: Simple. Reliable. Powerful. Fast. — Create your ultimate app using the cloud’s fastest, most scalable, powerful and reliable SSD servers: Linode. Use promo code MOBILEWEB20 for a $20 credit. linode Brian Rinaldi recommends Chrome on iOS is Now Open Source — Up until now, Chrome for iOS was not part of the open source code on the Chromium project. Ashley Carman Holly Schinsky recommends Today's Mobile App Development Landscape — The array of choices in the mobile app world, both native and Web-based, can lead to a paralysis in decision making. See how one company analysed their options. CabbageApps Brian Rinaldi recommends Ionic 2 Brings Performance Improvements and New Native Plugin System — An overview of the significant changes in Ionic 2. James Chesters Brian Rinaldi recommends We Built A PWA From Scratch, This Is What We Learned — Technical lessons/tips picked up from a team building their first PWA. Hjörtur Hilmarsson Peter Cooper recommends Building a Morphing Hamburger Menu with CSS — A developer saw an attractive hamburger menu expansion effect and set out to replicate it with CSS only. Luis Manuel Brian Rinaldi recommends Making 'input type=date' Complicated — A look at 'input type=date' that leads to discussion of whether widgets on all browsers should behave the same. Peter-Paul Koch Holly Schinsky recommends Getting Started with Ionic 2 by Building A Markdown App — A getting started guide to Ionic 2 by walking through the creation of an editor where you can type Markdown and switch to a rendered view. Amit Merchant Holly Schinsky recommends Syncing with Couchbase in an Ionic 2 App using PouchDB Nic Raboy Brian Rinaldi recommends Mixed Content and Responsive Images — Images defined in a ‘picture’ element on an encrypted page (i.e. https) will not load if they are served from an unencrypted context (i.e. http). Jonathan Snook Holly Schinsky recommends The Underestimated Power of Color on Mobile — Important points on color in apps, and how to choose colors/contrasts for the best usability. Nick Babich Brian Rinaldi recommends What’s Up with Firefox, The Browser That Time Forgot? — A look at what happened at Mozilla in recent years and how it plans to revitalize Firefox (including mobile versions). Walt Mossberg Holly Schinsky recommends React Navigation for React Native — A flexible navigation library including customizable views for React Native and routers for any platform. React Navigation Holly Schinsky recommends A React Native + Salesforce Mobile SDK Sample Application — A sample Employee Directory/Org Chart app built with React Native and the Salesforce Mobile SDK. Christophe Coenraets Holly Schinsky recommends cordova-plugin-native-keyboard: Fancy Messenger Style Chat Keyboard for Cordova Apps Eddy Verbruggen Holly Schinsky recommends Simple Ionic2 App Using Ionic.io Auth and MobX To Manage Authentication State Aaron K Saunders Brian Rinaldi recommends What Are Your Thoughts On Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? — An open (and civilized) discussion on the pros and cons of AMP. dev.to() Curated by Brian Rinaldi and Holly Schinsky for Cooperpress. Cooperpress is located at Office 30, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Update your email address or stop receiving MWW here

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Ask the UXperts: The UX of Onboarding — with Dr Paul Sherman

What exactly is onboarding and why is it so important?

Onboarding is the process of getting people to adopt your application or service – in short, to use the thing you’ve made.

We all go through an onboarding process of some description on a regular basis, and according to Dr Sherman, getting it right is quite literally a matter of survival (for your product).

In this session, we’ll explore some common patterns and break them down to figure out what works and what doesn’t. We’ll look at some of the key principles of successful onboarding, and learn what to avoid.

If you want your product or service (or that of your employer) to survive, then this session is not one to be missed.

The Details

• Where: Our dedicated ‘Ask Paul’ Slack channel (You’ll need to request an invitation if you haven’t yet joined our Slack channel)
• When: 5pm Wednesday 15 February PST or Midday Thursday 16 December AEDT (or find out what time that is for you)

Meet Dr Sherman

Dr. Paul Sherman has worked in user experience since the days of dial-up.

He conducts user research and user experience design for mobile, web and desktop in many domains, including accounting; banking; e-commerce; financial planning and portfolio management; healthcare; mobile gaming; mobile device hardware and software; network, server and cloud application security; tax preparation; and travel, among others.

He also creates and teaches graduate courses in user experience research and design at Kent State University, where is he is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the User Experience Design Master’s program.

 

How to Ask Your Questions

If you can’t make the live session but have questions, we’d love to collect them ahead of time and we’ll ask Paul on your behalf. You can ask them in the comments below. We’ll publish the responses (along with the full transcript) in the days following the session.

Here are a few question ideas to get you started:

1. What are some of the common mistakes or misconceptions when it comes to onboarding?

2. Is there a critical time period in which users need to complete the onboarding process if it is to succeed?

3. What are some examples of products or brands that have got this right?

How does Ask the UXperts work?

These sessions run for approximately an hour and best of all, they don’t cost a cent. We use a dedicated public Slack channel. That means that there is no audio or video, but a full transcript will be posted up on here in the days following the session.

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Minimal and mysterious One Pager for Venture Capitalists, 3KVC. The flow of content (storytelling) that ends saying they are looking for rare aliens (special startups) is just perfect.

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