Readme.README: Optimizing Legibility on Mobile Devices

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50 Minute Talk
Scheduled: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 from 3:00 – 3:50pm in Celestin A

One Line Summary

App and mobile platform developers with UI/UX design experience welcome. Moderate technical experience expected.

Abstract

Mobile users’ attention is measured in “glance time”—because split seconds separate an attentive user from a distracted one, and a happy user from a fatigued one. Designing for readability involves far more than just increasing the text size; fortunately the mobile Linux stack makes it practical to deploy a product that is legible in adverse conditions and eye-pleasing when fully engaged. This session will explore the research on UI readability, from driver distraction in IVI systems to high-DPI displays, then examine the current state of mobile Linux with regard to legibility. Finally, we will discuss concrete steps that app developers and platform vendors can take to improve their UI readability on phones, tablets, and other devices—with sacficing design originality.

Speaker

  • Nathan Willis

    LWN.net

    Biography

    Nathan Willis works as an editor at the Linux and open-source news site LWN.net. He is also an open typeface designer, contributor to the Open Font Library, and co-author of the book Design With FontForge. He has spoken at GUADEC, linux.conf.au, the Automotive Linux Summit, and Libre Graphics Meeting.