This article comes from a ROM called "Aurora Green", the author shared the entire team's design process, including the details of several main applications polished, detailed description of the unique design of the original ROM, the birth process, of course, the designer's stubbornness of the United States is also very worthy of praise.
How long has it been since you looked up at the stars?
Why are we getting more and more unhappy when technology is changing?
How long have you not smiled as innocent as a child?
Do you remember your beginner's mind in the flow of time?
What kind of rom do we want to make?
She should be pure, really do 0 pre-installed, the installation of the application of the decision to return the user hand;
She should be brisk, touch agile with her fingers, experience fluency in the palm;
She should be Yue move, each frame small rhythm, all arouse the young throbbing heart;
She should be elegant, as pure and holy, white snow-winning elves, concise and without losing style.
Hardware is like a shell, software comparable to the soul, at the beginning of the design we have set the principles of design, for our minds, "she" depicts a new soul.
Everything goes one avenue to Jane.
Subtraction is not simply to delete a function, but after repeated and a large number of measurement, elaboration, collation, classification, in the most intuitive way to the user. We do not only pursue the flat visual, but also hope that the information structure is more simple and brisk, the start is known, let the complexity left to us, the simple left to the user.
Design concept: Aurora Snow condensate
Based on the product definition of "pure, brisk, pleasant, elegant", we began to look for design DNA belonging to the Iuni OS, just as 1000 people had 1000 hamlets in their hearts, and everyone's understanding of "pure, brisk, pleasant, graceful" is different. At the beginning of the design, in order to find all the approved design language, we set up a lot of brainstorming within the team, which not only allows team members to quickly achieve the concept of consistency, but also to ensure that the design concept from the initial intention to the actual landing of the efficient. After many collisions, we all agree that the concept of "Northern Lights" is the most consistent with our product temperament. Established the Aurora Snow coagulation design concept. The Aurora has also become our internal development code.
The Arctic light is also hailed as the light of happiness. There, there is the world's purest water, the most elegant polar snow, there is no a trace of dirty sea and sky vast and boundless. In fact, each of us have such a bundle of happiness in the light, when all difficulties, overcome hardships, put down the complexity of everything, back to Jane to the true self, it is not far from the light of the bundle of happiness.
Main tones extracted from Aurora Snow
Visual perception is the main way for human to explore and perceive the environment, different colors can trigger a series of reactions in the central nervous system of the brain and cerebral cortex, and the perception of color is one of the main driving forces of human evolution. Color to the brand value of the establishment of a very high importance, such as identification and visibility of the high Tencent blue and millet orange. And we also decided to extend the color from Aurora Snow condensate to the Iuni Enterprise VI, in the hardware design and UI design as much as possible to use this color to the fullest, and strive to let users see the Aurora green Lenovo to Iuni.
The desktop icon removes the extra light and shadows, will all return to simple pure, using small rounded rectangle, and the front of the Iuni mobile phone hug curve to maintain the same, we put the Aurora Snow coagulation concept also into our logo design, such as Snow Mountain albums, world-level calendar, flow-like statistics icon. At the same time, the overall color of the aurora and polar Snow ideographic icon blend, fresh breath, as if exposure to an aurora snow condensate of the pure world.
We will be the light of the aurora and the elegance of the Arctic snow throughout the design, such as the call when the screen like the Aurora, on the sliding hanging off the sky has opened the feeling.
You do not need to enter the application to control everything, in the dynamic design also perfect interpretation of the Northern Lights smart.
The real simplicity, is the panorama and details of the rigorous, is consistent inside and outside the exquisite, in order to unify the panorama and detail, we redraw each of the system icon, simple lines, elegant expression of our innate purity.
Elegant and moving temperament
We incorporate the purity of the Arctic snow into our system application interface design, creating an artistic conception with a large amount of white, allowing you to focus more on the task itself without being easily interfered and interrupted.
Farewell to the monotonous plain text notes, you can use pictures, videos, or audio to record your fantastic ideas anytime, anywhere, and the memo app also continues our Aurora Snow design concept, the first time you mix text and graphics into sticky notes, enjoy the fun of recording anywhere, and make life lively and interesting in simple ways.
We believe in simplicity and eternity, this is from the Northern Lights in the minimalist to our system of each interface, simple point line, pure and bright in the show a different kind of.
The default wallpaper design is a painstaking, not only to have the brand characteristics, but also to be able to foil the icon, more to meet the vast majority of the user's aesthetic needs, whether it is far-away mountains, sea, stars or landscape, all because of a lot of use and lack of new ideas. After a fine selection of thousands of wallpapers, we once again came to the hometown of "Iuni" (the mascot of the town) to look for design inspiration. After careful polishing, it finally got the deep sea view of the glacier plane.
Small details, great intentions.
Based on the Aurora Snow-coagulation design concept, we have abandoned the design of physical and chemical, and more inclined to the life of the beautiful things to condense into design elements, create a wonderful experience. Design comes from life, but also should be higher than life, we care about each of your touch experience, the details of the demanding is derived from the perfect pursuit of user experience.
Lock-screen flashlight inspired by the brightest star in the night sky, turn on the switch, an aurora into the stars, in the Dark Night, the stars flashing, meteor across, illuminate our forward.
Sailing, waves and the other side, we have had a dream of traveling around the world, although for all kinds of reasons, has been staying in place, but longing for the distant feelings have been in the design of traffic statistics application is injected this element.
Slide the brightness bar, the small sun will rotate with your fingertips, so that you truly feel smart.
Sound effect and dynamic effect of the perfect fit, it can produce good chemical reaction, the call is to swing it, give you an unprecedented operation pleasure.
The above is just a few more easy to find examples, more design details, waiting for everyone to find out.
In the depths of time meet the good
Time, extremely soft witness our youth growth, precipitate the life of those joys and sorrows, for designers, is should go to find a perfect wallpaper, or should provide a possibility of creation?
The default time lock screen, automatic rotation every two hours, from sunrise to star Rail, accompany you every day of the rising moon sinking.
Shoot a growth lock screen for your baby with the Iuni U2 1600W pixel, for your Meng pet patted the funny moment, in the depths of time, in the quiet lock screen, and we love the people count the happiness of daily necessities, every time lighting the screen, is a beautiful encounter.
User Feedback
From the micro-blog and the feedback from the QQ group, users have felt the sincerity of our design, the overall design of our Aurora Snow is greatly recognized, this time the design is only a beginning, is a zero to one exploration, and experience design of the road is very long, followed by the introduction of users to participate in our design, We know we still have a lot of imperfections, welcome to our forum or my microblog http://weibo.com/colin0415 give us advice and create a better user experience. Iunios will also be more wonderful because of you!
Music, weather, cloud services, application market on the road, please look forward to!