Craig Pugsley / Adapting Big Designs To Small Screens

At Nokia (now Microsoft!) we’ve been designing apps for mobile devices for years. Recently, mobile device screen sizes have become bigger. The future looks to blur the line between large phones and small tablets and the 50-inch living room experience is becoming more relevant than ever.

In this workshop, we’ll be looking at how we’ve scaled our MixRadio music streaming experience from a 4-inch device costing £50 up to a 10-inch tablet costing £400 – and beyond.

As a team, we’ll explore each others’ experiences for doing the same on our respective platforms and apps. We’ll tackle the complexities of adapting to screen shapes and sizes as a team. You’ll leave this workshop with a set of best-practices and a toolkit for adapting and best exploiting any app to a different shape and size.

If you’re looking to bring your existing app to new larger form factors, plan to design a new app that scales effectively from the get-go, or you’ve already been through the pain and need to cathartically-share your experiences, this workshop is a must.

Craig Pugsley

Craig is a principal designer. He works with the guys at MixRadio in Bristol, UK to create the world’s most entertaining experiences for Nokia phones, desktops and the web. Craig started life as an engineer in a start-up, but soon realised he preferred designing apps more than developing them. At Nokia, he designed Windows desktop music applications, Nokia Reading (the best eBook reader for Windows Phone), creatively lead the project to bring Nokia MixRadio’s signature experience to Windows 8 tablets and PCs, and is now working on creating a single MixRadio app that scales seamlessly on all Windows platforms. MixRadio received critical acclaim and averages 4.5/5 stars in the Microsoft Store.