deploying mobile user_assistance_waghalter
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Deploying Mobile User Assistance
David WaghalterSymantec
Do Mobile Apps Need Help?
Where does Help live?
Where does Help live? Browser
Where does Help live? In-app
Content: type and length
Does your app need user assistance?
• Yes!
• Does your user need assistance?
• Competitive advantage
• Secondary/Hidden features– check UI!
• Is it imperfect?
Where is Help?• Where is your user?
• Who is your user? – How do they pay for data– How much space on device?
• Infrastructure:– Server– mobile optimization– authoring environment– Localization– metrics
Seriously, where is Help?• How complex are tasks
– How much content do you need
• Do you need to control user experience – at least let user know what to expect
• Do you want to restrict content to device users?– Sharing, marketing, and whatnot
Content itself• What kind of metrics do you need/how will
you track them (topic-based?)
• How-to vs About
• Terminology
• Standalone vs Desktop extension
• Content reuse
David [email protected]@gmail.com@davidwagUA