Baidu Search Client design sharing: A new visual and interactive experience

Article Description: stunning presentation-Baidu search mobile phone client-design project sharing.

October 8, 2011, Baidu Search mobile phone client officially landed Apple Store.

December 12, 2011, Baidu Search mobile phone client won the app Store 2011, the most popular first name of the tool category.

This lightweight search application poured into the product design team a lot of effort. New visual and interactive experience, better search experience, new ding features ... Its release is a small step in our search client field, MUX designers participated in this application design and decision-making, there are many students in the hard work. Today let us uncover its veil and see its little story.

To be stunning and present

More than a year, we have launched a mobile phone end of the palm Baidu and Baidu fast search for two of the relevant applications, the search business to the client's form extended to the mobile end, during this period, accumulated a large number of search client-side design and development experience. With the development of mobile Internet These years, our team is maturing, with the help of the iphone platform to do Baidu search box opportunity, decided to integrate resources, a comprehensive definition of mobile phone search client, to give users a best use, the most favorite search client products.

First of all, we define the new Baidu search client product experience target-the best use of search client tools. What kind of search client is useful? Through a lot of interaction between designers and product managers, we have identified the product experience objectives:

1. Controllable sense: Simple operation, easy to understand, expected, less error operation, no distance sense ... Target lowers cognitive costs

2. Speed sense: interface switch, response, operation feedback, information loading, misoperation feedback, waiting sense ... Efficiency is the core gene in the application of tool class

3. Good effect: image, atmosphere, copy, private, density, dynamic ... The key to the differentiation of viscosity

Secondly, combine the product each module to carry out the experience goal, obtains the unified experience design plan. In the process, we found several break-through dimensions and included these dimensions in the development upgrade plan for the search client. The product design that has been released includes: key input experience, voice search experience, common information search experience, results browsing experience, emotional experience, interface quality and so on solutions.

In the process of product design, step-by-step experience of the design objectives, and the goal through the product of each module, in order to obtain a unified experience design.

Faster Input Search Experience

Baidu Search Interactive Experience design of the first step is the input. From the input method, there is currently a key input, voice input, camera input. Most users are still using key input, we focus on experience analysis.

Status: In the iphone, the built-in input method in the input of words in Chinese keywords when the efficiency is not high, Input Method association words can not meet the user Input Precision Association needs. Alphabet Keyboard The Chinese are still not used to it. IOS5 before the automatic input method, Lenovo Word follow the cursor. Users can easily touch a nearby control when they click on an associative word.

Through the analysis of the status quo, we have three aspects to understand the comprehensive solution

Faster input search Experience the first step in the design of Baidu Search interactive experience is input. From the input method, there is currently a key input, voice input, camera input. Most users are still using key input, we focus on experience analysis. Status: In the iphone, the built-in input method in the input of words in Chinese keywords when the efficiency is not high, Input Method association words can not meet the user Input Precision Association needs. Alphabet Keyboard The Chinese are still not used to it. IOS5 before the automatic input method, Lenovo Word follow the cursor.

Users can easily touch a nearby control when they click on an associative word. Through the analysis of the present situation, we give a comprehensive solution in three aspects.

Each aspect requires specific and detailed design work, and the current release has greatly improved the efficiency of the input search. Please provide feedback.

1. Instant Display Search Suggestions

2. Increase search history, of course, matching the search history can be emptied, because many users search * *

3. Search advice words can be on the box, to facilitate your search "2012**** concert." Search suggest words are more intelligent than input method, know what you want to search, know what most people search for.

4. One step to clear the input.

5. Enhance speech input recognition ability. (described in detail later)

6. Built-in Baidu mobile Input method. Built-in Baidu mobile Input method can be said to be the people, we through with the Input Method team communication, the introduction of Baidu Mobile Input method. Please allow me to again count the built-in Baidu mobile Input method advantages: In line with Chinese input habits, more authoritative Lenovo words, ...

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