Share the design experience of line phone concept handset

Article Description: Line phone concept of mobile phone design sentiment.

Wen/Tian Fei

Hunan University of Technology young teachers Tian Fei design line phone concept mobile phone is 2011 Furong Cup International Industrial Design Competition "digital products and service Design category" Gold Award winning works. Line phone concept of mobile phone perfect combination of Chinese wind and technology elements, some data (mainly refers to video) in Youku after the announcement, a great surprise, and caused by the design, consumer electronics, the Internet industry wide attention, this article, Tian Fei will share with you about line phone design experience .

More simple to use

The development of the smartphone is becoming more and more powerful, at the same time, its complexity is increasing, many functions must go through a series of deep menu operation to find, so in line phone's original concept, we envision, how can the most commonly used functions directly pull? And the operation of this common function should be consistent with people's cognitive habits, so that users almost do not have to learn, you can remember this operation.

So we try to design the four side of the device as a touch sensor, in the edge of the 45-degree bevel surface sliding operation, can be related to the relevant situation of action. The following side slide represents scaling semantics, then in the picture environment that is scaling, music is the volume, think about it, the camera situation, the bottom line sliding nature is the lens push pull, so, familiar with the specific functional semantics, the application of course will be easier.

The other simple part is that the sharing method is simpler. When the device is near, the sensors of the four sides identify each other, will ask the user whether pairing, such as the choice is, the equipment surrounding the light will be the device to wrap up, so that it into the sharing mode, in this mode, all the information, information can be arbitrarily dragged to exchange.

The purpose of communication is offline aggregation

Many messages on the internet on the "combination of multiple devices to see movies, play games" This part of the function is strange, think who will bring so many mobile phone to use it? In fact, it is a combination of several people's equipment to use. We encourage people to get together and "play with the equipment" instead of "playing with their own devices". The starting point for this idea is that we find: Today's network is becoming more and more developed, and the distance between mobile phone and people more and more intimate, we seem to be accustomed to through the equipment and network to communicate with friends and contact, even in our face-to-face party, eat, we also occasionally brush happy net, Micro Bo, In SNS to give a friend a smile and touch, but ignored the real people at hand. This is the convenience of mobile internet, while the problem is unavoidable.

It can be imagined that in the future, these problems will be more evident in the next generation of users who are accompanying the growth of the web. Therefore, our design should take into account the existence of these social problems, should encourage and remind users, we use the network to do all the communication, the ultimate goal should be offline, real aggregation.

The influence of culture on products

As we all know, with the development of modern society and technological progress, the traditional culture, methods and memory will inevitably be forgotten unintentionally, which will lead to the relationship between human and cultural mother was cut off. Therefore, the contemporary people in order to experience and inherit our local culture, is making a lot of efforts, such as renovating a variety of ancient buildings, dressed in Chinese uniforms, forcing children to recite the "disciple rules", held their grand ancestor worship ceremony ...

Line phone To some extent is to try to use the means of design to make some kind of compensation, I think this method of compensation should pay more attention to the origin of regional cultural attributes and bone, rather than its appearance. Therefore, we want to use the common equipment operation, to awaken even a little cultural experience memory, so that it can and the modern way of life in the unconscious bridging, so that the cultural context in the social development process of natural inheritance (not forced, unconsciously inherit part of the characteristics of culture). For us, this is already worth satisfying. Line phone's design inspiration comes from a calligrapher friend Hu Zi GUI's work, each time sees his cursive work to contain the exciting tradition and the modern mixed characteristic, all made me realize these beautiful cultures are getting farther from us.

So our design attempts to use the concept of line in calligraphy to complete the hardware sensor, interface, with the method of simulating strokes to design operational behavior. These are some ideas about line phone. What's more, I want to talk about innovation. Many people associate innovation with design, think design can give more innovation support, I think this is to the designer's praise. In fact, innovation is everywhere, especially in the context of today's mobile internet boom. What I can share is a creative approach to our work as a designer.

Design is an interdisciplinary, designers need to dabble in a very wide range of knowledge, and to have a good understanding, can really understand the user, he also played a super faceted user.

But product design is not science fiction, so we also need to have a deep understanding of technology and achievable, the material, process, new technology must have understanding, only in this way and engineering staff to communicate effectively. In the information age today, many products are in the form of software, application, it requires the designer to understand the program, understand the data, understand the machine and equipment reading and writing process, understand the concept of software engineering.

But when designers understand technology, they should treat technology as a "black box". We just need to know what the inputs and outputs are, and then look for more reasonable business applications for the technology. This process of looking for a business application actually relies on the certainty of the user's real needs. Today's era, a lot of information, technology, opportunities overlap interspersed, we need to understand and grasp them, and create real value for users.

Author Tian Fei, Master of Design studies. Hunan Industrial University is now a lecturer, Hunan Province product packaging industry Design Center researcher. Design works include "line phone" concept mobile phone, General Electric Edison Awards Asia Pacific 07 Awards ceremony image and process design and many other projects.