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Interaction Design for a Smartphone

ADITYA HARI

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

DATA VISUALISATION

INFORMATION GRAPHICS

SYSTEM DESIGN

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Diploma Project

Mar-23rd-2006 Oct 31st-2006

Design of features and interaction for a handheld mobile computing device

The project

(Smartphone)

Examples

Opportunity

To revisit (re-structure) the mobile phone information design.

Find a new effective pattern of design in terms of features, interaction design and visual design

To make touch screen interactivity a better experience.

Innovation.

Implementation

Constraints

The product being an application that could be used on various devices, no assumptions could be made on the device.

Limited screen-space

Time-frame

Understand mobile phones

Understand touch-screen interaction General study

Usagepatterns + ]

Research

General study

Literature study – relevant material (especially research papers published)

Case study – Palm treo 650

User study

Observing the users with touch screen smart phones to understand usage patterns specific to the design problem

Asking users (online) about mobile phones in general to understand shortcomings and usage

Inferences

Mobile communication tends to happen with people the users are more recently in contact with

Different people have different usage patterns to perform the same task.

User interface is considered the most critical factor on a mobile phone

People don't tend to remember more than a few phone numbers

Designing for small screens need not resemble design for

computers

Activities on mobile phones are generally paid lesser attention

Inferences

Using the stylus is less preferred because it involves

using both hands

The orientation for touch-screen devices is a slightly

different

Idea Generation

Deciding the information flows

Initial concepts/screens for features

Defining the product

The product (termed “Firestorm” for internal usage) will be an application/software available for Linux based handheld (touch screen) devices

The Graphic User Interface on Firestorm will be enabled using a browser(Mozilla Firefox)

Information on Firestorm will be done by tagging (automatic and user defined)

Concept for feature design

People book

Noun – Verb – adjective

Communicate

Tags

Screen size

Explorations

The Product

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People

Communicate

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