akademy talk?

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 26.02.2012 18:25, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Thursday 16 February 2012, you wrote:
>>> Plasma Active will be a hot topic at Akademy. Having several
>>> presentations and presenters would be nice. Desktop Summit was
>>> speculative...a series of presentations showing "what if". These
>>
>> i would love more than one presentation as well.
>> for that however people need to step up ;)
>>
>
> sooo, any takers? ;)
> (deadlines looming)

I've just submitted a proposal for a talk by me about Plasma Active HIGs to the 
program committee:

Title of the talk:
How the Plasma Active Human Interface Guidelines Can Make the Life of Developers 
and Users Easier

One-paragraph description:
This talk presents the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for Plasma Active, the 
user experience for (mostly) touch-based devices. These guidelines help 
developers to create consistent user interfaces for Plasma active applications 
while reducing the need for direct involvement of interaction designers into the 
creation of every UI. Hereby they reduce the effort to create new UIs and allow 
users to transfer knowledge to new applications more easily.

Abstract:
One of the efforts of the interaction design team of Plasma Active is the 
development of Human Interface Guidelines for Active Apps. Human Interface 
Guidelines serve mainly two important purposes: First, they support the creation 
of consistent applications on a platform, thereby allowing users to easily 
transfer knowledge gained about the interaction with one application to other 
applications on the same platform and ensuring a harmonious look & feel across 
applications. Second, they allow application developers to apply proven 
interaction design principles without the need to ask an interaction designer 
about every common aspect of their UI. Thus, interaction designers and usability 
experts can focus on the uncommon, tricky parts of a specific application’s UI, 
and some particularly standardized and straightforward applications may even be 
created without the need to involve interaction designers.
The talk will give an introduction to the usage of the Plasma Active HIGs, give 
an overview of the existing HIGs and an outlook on those HIGs that are planned. 
After the presentation, developers have the chance to comment on existing HIGs 
and suggest which additional HIGs they need the most.


Cheers,
Thomas