205 - Designing For The Coffee Queue

What does it mean to design a website for the coffee queue? Subscribe: ITUNES | ANDROID | STITCHER | RSS FEED Scribbled Shownotes In episode 204, I touched on the importance of mobile I said a phrase that really caught my thinking, and I wanted to consider it more in-depth The coffee queue is just an analogy really to help you consider how people use websites in reality. People use their phones whilst: Killing time waiting for a friend Stood waiting for the traffic lights to change (in cars and outside of cars)  Waking up on a morning Going to bed on a night Waiting for an appointment  Bored at the dinner table Generally we use it as an all encompassing time waster  The idea of designing a website for the coffee queue The user isn’t fully engaged They want the content as quick as possible They’ll be on a mobile phone They’ll likely have a poor internet connection They want to find something out They want to be engaged, intrigued, interested, surprised They won’t do anything complicated, and likely will forget to complete anything that is It’s a powerful way of thinking about the next website you’re involved in. Support Ask a Designer Anything Ask a Designer Anything Website Twitter (@craigburgess) Ask a Designer Anything on Facebook Leave me a review on iTunes