Design discussion: Mobile devices, mobile internet

Article Description: discussion from potato chips: mobile devices • Mobile internet.

Happy to tear the packaging, bite potato chips, the new phase of potato chips will begin! This topic: Mobile devices, mobile internet. The meeting record is Yanyan.

1. Our discussion of mobile devices and their characteristics;

2. relevant Internet applications;

3. iphone and Android application design;

4. WAP web design.

1. Our discussion of mobile devices and characteristics

The wiki says pocket size, with display, touch input, and access to all kinds of information from anywhere. We discuss: To be portable, can carry, can use the Internet to use, but also popular. So what are the mobile devices involved? Like the ipad, IPhone, ipod Touch, Gphone, Windows Phone ...

There are differences in their physical keys:

A.1 A Home button

B.4 a major physical key: Home, menu, back, search

C.3 A major physical key: Back, search, start

The systems they use are also different:

Ios

Android

Windows Phone

To design, both soft and hard must be considered.

2. related Internet Applications

What is the difference between the same Internet application and the different systems? Take Facebook for example, look at the interface design supported by iOS and Android:

Here is the version on the ipad:

Guess what Facebook will do with Windows Phone?

In addition, a variety of mobile devices on the details of experience, there are many worthy of our exploration, such as: the animation effect of finger sliding, expand the animation effect of the album ...

3.iphone with Android Application Design of

The general practice, is based on the system and hardware redesign, rather than moved over to change. However, it is feasible to move the iphone application design directly to Android, and touch-screen operation will not be used. Therefore, whether the hardware device touches the screen, it seems more decided how to design. Touch screen and the similarity of the web, the operation focus can be convenient to switch freely, so you can learn from each other. As you can see, the new version of Twitter feels more and more like the ipad.

Touch-screen gestures, compared to the PC side, will produce a richer operation, high imitation of the real world experience, such as the ipad animation and elastic effect, for users understand the operation and system behavior is a very good model.

Of course, touch screen also has its disadvantages, for example:

The hardware equipment is not good, the link is small, the distance is small, easy to mistake the operation, the finger big user may have the obstacle ...

4. Supplementary topic: WAP web design

The above considerations seem to be targeted at the more high-end mobile devices, in fact, WAP has been the largest number of visits. For example, NokiaS60, although the people who have the right to speak on the network do not use much, but the real user is very many. So WAP web design, also worthy of concern.

Key operation, more need special consideration, at this time the path is established, need careful scrutiny, how to operate the most convenient for users, such as: The position of the key path, the next page 1 2 3 ... ; auto-select link; first screen navigation as little as possible ...

Well, let the discussion fly for a while.