{"id":3816,"date":"2014-04-14T06:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.learnlets.com\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2014-04-11T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T18:17:03","slug":"how-do-we-mlearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.learnlets.com\/2014\/04\/how-do-we-mlearn\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>How<\/i> do we mLearn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As preface, I used to teach interface design.  \u00a0My passion was still learning technology (and has been since I saw the connection as an undergraduate and designed my own major), but there&#8217;re strong links between the two fields in terms of design for humans.  \u00a0My PhD advisor was a guru of interface design and the thought was &#8220;any student of his should be able to teach interface design&#8221;.  \u00a0And so it turned out.  \u00a0So interface design continues to be an interest of mine, and I recognize the importance. More so on mobile, where there are limitations on interface real estate, so more cleverness may be required.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Hoober, who I had the pleasure of sharing a stage with at an eLearning Guild conference, is a notable UI design expert with a speciality in mobile.  \u00a0He had previously conducted a research project examining how people \u00a0<em>actually<\/em> hold their phones, as opposed to anecdotes.  \u00a0The Guild&#8217;s Research Director, Patti Schank, obviously thought this interesting enough to extend, because they&#8217;ve jointly <a title=\"The report link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elearningguild.com\/research\/archives\/index.cfm?id=174&amp;action=viewonly&amp;from=content\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> the results of the initial report and subsequent research into tablets as well. And the results are important.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest result, for me, is that people tend to use phones while standing and walking, and tablets while sitting.  \u00a0While you can hold a tablet with two hands and type, it&#8217;s hard.  \u00a0The point is to design for supported use with a tablet,  \u00a0but for handheld use with a phone. Which actually does imply different design principles.<\/p>\n<p>I note that I still \u00a0<a title=\"Previous reflections\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.learnlets.com\/?p=3370\" target=\"_blank\">believe<\/a> \u00a0tablets to be mobile, as they can be used naturally while standing and walking, as opposed to laptops. Though you can support them, you don&#8217;t \u00a0<em>have<\/em> \u00a0to.  \u00a0(I&#8217;m not going to let the fact that there are special harnesses you can buy to hold tablets while you stand, for applications like medical facilities dissuade me, my mind&#8217;s made up so don&#8217;t confuse me :)<\/p>\n<p>The report goes into more details, about just \u00a0<em>how<\/em> people hold it in their hands (one handed w\/ thumb, one hand holding, one hand touching, two hands with two thumbs, etc), and the proportion of each.  \u00a0This has impact on where on the screen you put information and interaction elements.<\/p>\n<p>Another point is the importance of the center for information and the periphery for interaction, yet users are more accurate at the center, so you need to make your periphery targets larger and easier to hit. Seemingly obvious, but somehow obviousness doesn&#8217;t seem to hold in too much of design!<\/p>\n<p>There is a wealth of other recommendations scattered throughout the report, with specifics for phones, small and large tablets, etc, as well as major takeaways.  \u00a0For example the implication from the fact that tablets are often supported means that more consideration of font size is needed than you&#8217;d expect!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The report is freely available on the Guild <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Guild's site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elearningguild.com\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> in the Research Library (under the Content&gt;Research menu).  \u00a0Just in time for <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"the eLearning Guild's mLearning conference\" href=\"http:\/\/mlearncon.com\" target=\"_blank\">mLearnCon<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">!  \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As preface, I used to teach interface design. \u00a0My passion was still learning technology (and has been since I saw the connection as an undergraduate and designed my own major), but there&#8217;re strong links between the two fields in terms of design for humans. \u00a0My PhD advisor was a guru of interface design and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-design","category-mobile","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How do we mLearn? 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