{"id":1839,"date":"2011-02-22T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2011-02-22T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:19:15","slug":"basecamp-mobile-thought-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/basecamp-mobile-thought-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Basecamp Mobile Thought Process."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">T<\/span>wo must-read articles from <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\">37signals<\/a> on designing and developing Basecamp Mobile. Posts like these are the reason people have such tremendous respect for the boys from Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2778-design-decisions-basecamp-mobile-ui\">Design Decisions: Basecamp Mobile UI<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the first challenges was simply how to take the Basecamp design  and make it work on a much smaller screen. It needed to look like  Basecamp and be familiar to people who have been using the desktop  version for years. We wanted it to perform like a native app but we  didn\u2019t want it to look like one, it was far more important that it  looked like Basecamp.<a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2771-providing-great-user-experience-with-feedback\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2771-providing-great-user-experience-with-feedback\">Providing Great User Experience with Feedback<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Feedback is an essential part of software user interface design. It\u2019s  especially true when designing applications for current mobile devices.  Tapping a touch screen is less precise than clicking with a mouse. Touch  screens also lack the tactile and auditory feedback of a physical key  or button. Slow, unreliable cellular data access adds to the confusion. A  user might wonder: Is the app broken or do I have a poor connection?  Was my tap registered or did my fingers miss that tiny button? Making  sure users get clear feedback in response to their actions and to  changes in state or conditions is key to a great software experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two must-read articles from 37signals on designing and developing Basecamp Mobile. Posts like these are the reason people have such tremendous respect for the boys from Chicago. Design Decisions: Basecamp Mobile UI One of the first challenges was simply how to take the Basecamp design and make it work on a much smaller screen. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[33,100,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}