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App architecture

- [Instructor] Information architecture is important to anything you do whether it's a mobile app or a website or even, in our case, a watch app. It's really important for the user to know where they are. And without good IA, the user could potentially either get lost in the application and not find what they're looking for or not know how to recover from a mistake they may have made at some point as they're browsing around or searching or trying to find what it is that they're looking for. With that in mind, it's important to note that the information architecture for Android Wear and watchOS have very different structures. Seen here is the Android Wear. It has a very simple vertical architecture. You scroll from one card to the next, swipe right to dismiss, swipe left for more details, or tap to drill deeper. Google had done a bunch of usability studies on this and for them they found it worked better for their users to be able to get around the applications within this simple…

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