Steven Hoober
Strategist, architect, and designer for every screen
Steven Hoober wrote the book on mobile design patterns, and is best known for his ongoing research into how people really use touchscreen phones and tablets. He has been doing mobile and multi-channel design since 1999, designing the earliest mobile app store and the first Google mobile search for Sprint, several mobile browsers, many mobile sites such as Weather.com, and apps for companies like Hallmark, US Bank and Cummins. Steven maintains a repository of mobile design and development information including all the content from Designing Mobile Interfaces at the 4ourth Mobile Patterns Wiki, regularly writes for UX Matters magazine, and UX Magazine, among other writing and speaking.
Speaking, Workshops & Other Events
2014
[[|That Conference]] - 11-13 August, 2014 - Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells.
Design for Fingers, Thumbs, and People: Real World Data and Tactics for Designing Touchscreen Interfaces
UXPA 2014 - 21-24 July - London.
Design for Fingers, Thumbs, and People: Real World Data and Tactics for Designing Touchscreen Interfaces
2014 mLearnCon Conference and Expo - 24-26 June - San Diego, California.
How People Hold and Touch Their Mobile Devices
UXPA-KC - 2 June - Kansas City, Missouri (probably)
Preview of UXPA London — Touchscreen Interfaces with Steven Hoober
SoCal UX Camp - 31 May CSF, Garden Grove, California.
TBD, workshop
2014 Interagency Mobile Learning Webinar - 20-22 May - Online
TBD, probably 20 minute talk: Designing for Fingers, Thumbs & People
MoDevUX - 19 May - McLean, Virginia - Sign up with code 'UX14SH' to get a 15% discount!
Workshop - API First: A UX Design ImperativePodcast preview
TechJobsLA - 5 April - Blankspaces DTLA, Los Angeles, California.
Workshop - Physical, Digital, Human: Designing Experiences for Mobile and the Internet of Things Slideshare
IxDA Los Angeles - 4 April - CP+B, Santa Monica, California
How People Really Hold and Touch... their phone YouTube
Developer Week SF 2014 - 18-19 February - San Francisco, California.
Multi-Device Development: Building for Everything (Panel)
Convey UX - 5-7 February - Seattle, Washington.
Tools for Mobile UX Design (90 min Mini-Workshop) Slideshare Flickr
How People Really Hold and Touch... their phone (40 min Presentation) Slideshare
Mobile Trends Conference - 16-17 January - Krakow, Poland.
Getting Good UX Into Mobile Slideshare
Post-event promo video including quotes from me YouTube
Entrepreneurial User Experience Workshop - 6 & 8 January - Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri.
2013
MoDev East - 12 December - Mclean, Virginia.
Design for Fingers, Thumbs, and People Slideshare
DevLearn - 23-27 October - Mobile Learning Stage, Las Vegas.
Panel: Exploring the Present and Future of Mobile Learning, 10am 23 Oct
Presentation: Mobile Design: Adding Mobile to Your Learning Ecosystem, 11am, 24 Oct Slideshare
eLearning Guild - September Online Forum - 19-20 September - (Online)
How People Really Hold and Touch (their phones) Session Recording
2013 Interagency Mobile Learning Webinar Series - 16-18 July - (Online)
Ask the Mobile Experts: An Interactive Panel Discussion! Video
mLearnCon - 18-20 June - San Jose, California.
Designing UI and UX for Your Learners and Not for the Device (Panel)
Turning Boxes into Ecosystems: Designing for Ecosystems and People Instead of Screens and Pages Slideshare
How People Really Hold and Touch (their phones) Slideshare
MoDevUX - 9-11 May - Mclean, Virginia.
Workshop: Turning Boxes into Ecosystems: Successful multi-channel, multi-platform, multi-user design Slideshare
How People Really Hold and Touch (their phones) Slideshare Video
MMConf - 18-19 April - Krakow, Poland.
The Trouble With All Those Boxes (Slideshare)
Interaction Design BOF Yahoo! (sponsored by BayCHI and IXDA Silicon Valley) - 17 Jan - Sunnyvale, California.
Sketchnotes by Jerome Domurat
2012
Float Mobile Learning Symposium during Techweek 2012 - 25 June - Chicago Merchandise Mart.
D2WC - Designer, Developer, Mobile Workflow - 16-18 May - Mariott Hotel, Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri.
MoDevUX - 20 April - Ritz Carlton Hotel, Tysons Corner, Virginia.
Really Using your Device Capabilities Slideshare * Video
User Centered Execution for Mobile UX Designers, an O'Reilly Webcast - 29 Feb.
- IXDA Toronto - 23 Feb - Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Avoiding the Heuristic Solution, an O'Reilly Webcast 31 Jan.
2011
Kansas City UX Show & Tell - 22 July - Kansas City, Missouri
Float Mobile Learning Symposium - 10 June - Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
Video of presentation in 4 parts
Applying Patterns to Mobile Design, an O'Reilly Webcast - 8 November
MoDevEast - 1 December - Gannett Conference Center, Mclean, Virginia
Cannot recall. Should look it up sometime...
2010
- User Centered Design - 2 November - Art Institutes International Kansas City
Mobile Design in :20 Introduction to mobile for designers
- Design for Mobile 2010 - September 2010 - Chicago, Illinois
Designing Device Design Deliverables
"Design for Mobile First" Panel with Scott Jenson & Luke Wroblewski
Before 2010
- JCCC - 16 November 2009
Ten things web designers need to know before going mobile
November KCDesignCore Meeting - 5 November 2009 - JCCC Reginer Campus
Designing for Mobile Devices
- Design for Mobile 2009 - 21 April 2009 - Lawrence, Kansas
Weather Channel Mobile Redesign: After Action Report Slideshare
MobileWidgetCamp - 7 September 2008 - Austin, Texas
Quotes About How Awesome I am
"It’s possible that Steven Hoober has done more research than any one human being on mobile and in his presentation, Tools for Mobile UX Design and How People Really Hold and Touch he definitely provided the data proving it! I recommend that anyone who is doing mobile design watch this presentation, which provides great heuristics to keep in mind in terms of text size, visible target, finger size, design by zones and more. He also has for sale on his website, 4ourth.com, a great little tool, which enables UX designers to evaluate their mobile design based upon actual text and finger size!" Lisa L. Trager
Other Online Resources
Slideshare and YouTube also include items on land navigation and sensors, but just ignore those.
O'Reilly Events then click the Multimedia tab
Other Photos
Mostly for me, in case I need another promotional ones. These are approved by my wife as things where I don't look stupid and am not doing something (mostly: shooting) that would offend most people.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmconf/8746504465/ Up on stage at MM Conf in Krakow.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/10078963473/ Current Twitter profile.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/13426590865/ On stage at DevLearn in Las Vegas.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/2582913529/ In a small plane.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/2493154703/ Drawing on a whiteboard.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/2493150191/ Also working on a whiteboard.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/2497851835/ Intense focus while I engrave something.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/6402658661/ Drawing with a baby.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/6454896879/ Facebook headline now, working at desk.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoobe01/8678675346/ Working at computer, with cat.