Some suggestions on interactive design and UI design in WP7 application development

Article Description: Analysis of WP7 interaction characteristics and exploration of app design.

Windows Phone7 is a force in the wireless sector, but has been slow to enter the Chinese market. The release of Mango (note that WP7 and Mango are not concepts) brings the Chinese operating system, and it also gives people a glimpse of the infinite possibilities of the system. At this point, I combined my own experience in the design of the relevant application and my own understanding of the WP7 system, talking about this special system interaction characteristics.

This article indexes:

The WP7 of Nirvana (and its historical profile)

WP7 vs. iOS and Android

WP7 Design Style

WP7 content and structure framework and specific noun interpretation

Analysis of WP7 interaction characteristics

WP7 Application Design Recommendations

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What is WP7?

Windows Phone 7 is a Microsoft-launched mobile operating system that comes from Microsoft but is quite different from the previous Windows Mobile system. It can be said that Microsoft's operating system should be roughly divided into two times: Windows Mobile Age and Windows Phone era.

Window Mobile era

A Windows CE-based mobile intelligence system was developed ten years ago, and this is the prototype version of Windows Mobile. Pocket PC released, code-named Rapier (double-edged sword), posted on April 19, 2000, which is a milestone event. This is also the first appearance of the operating system that was later called Windows Mobile.

The original code for Windows Mobile 2003, "Ozone" (ozone), posted on June 23, 2003, is the first version of Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile 6.5 is the last of the Windows Mobile era, but at its root, the rigorous but inflexible experience of working on PCs has finally been vulnerable to the shock of the iphone and Android. Microsoft desperately needs a transformation.

WP7 era:

2010.2.15 Microsoft announces Windows Phone7 in the Global Mobile Communications exhibition

Microsoft officially released the WP7 in 2010.10.11 and announced the first batch of 9 smartphones using WP 7

2011.5.24, Microsoft officially released WP7.1 (or 7.5 code mango), said the three major elements of Mango is "communications, applications and networks."

2011.9.16 Microsoft officially pushed Mango in Taiwan

It is alleged that, in the next, or will be introduced to the mainland region of the operating system tango and code-named Apollo Windows8 operating system.

Windows Phone 7.0 is completely disconnected from the old architecture, an unfinished system that greatly affects the evaluation of its experience, especially in China. Mango brought more than 500 improvements and innovations, of course, the perfect Chinese support, basically formed a relatively perfect mobile phone operating system.

WP7 has set the hardware minimum standard, why is this? WP7 's goal is to provide services to multiple handset manufacturers, so it will not be as standard on hardware as the iphone, but it has "minimal requirements" for the hardware, which ensures that it does not appear to be fragmented as Android.

screen 800x480 WVGA, support multi-touch (at least 4 points)

hardware Buttons WP7 device must have at least 3 buttons: Back, home button, search

Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8x55 (1GHz) or MSM 7x30 (frequency 800MHz) CPU (Support DirectX 9).

memory at least 512MB

Internal storage at least 8GB

External Storage expansion is greater than or equal to 16G

Wireless WiFi, Bluetooth, A-gps, FM

camera At least 5 million pixels, with flash

Other acceleration sensors, compass, brightness sensor, external keyboard (optional)

at present, the WP7 camp support manufacturers: Samsung, LG, HTC, Nokia, Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE and so on. There is no doubt that the cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia is the most important partner to be valued by people.

WP7, IOS, Android

There is no doubt that the iphone has the largest app resource, which now has more than 10 times times the number of WP7, and a lot more than open Android. Its advantages in brand value can not be ignored, users of the iphone recognition is very high. However, as the only focus on a mobile phone strategy, which guarantees the best mobile phone hardware configuration on the premise, but also let users lack of more choices, how to personalize more personalized, but also the choice of the iphone has to think about the problem. Again, the iphone experience design has been going on for 4 years now, but we're not seeing any significant breakthroughs in UI interaction. Here I am weak to ask, do not you feel that the iphone's UI is a bit outdated? This, at least, we can see some clues from the various informal designs of the app now.

Android has the advantage of being open, it applies to different hardware manufacturers, allows developers to deeply develop different ROM, give users a lot of surprises, it also allows his design experience with the times, not outdated, and to meet the needs of user diversification. However, Android is also subject to its own openness, the opening of whether the hardware or the system fragmentation, to the user to Google to the manufacturers have caused great trouble.

WP7 as a new experience mode, to bring users with many surprises (certainly not just surprise), I believe will be more and more users accept. In hardware, it takes the two long, it uses its own system features, not only to provide manufacturers embedded in their own characteristics of the application of the portal, but also to ensure that users can perform the most rapid system upgrades and other services. Personally think in the experience aspect, WP7 is ahead of, he has a high-end appearance, also has many thoughtful detail design. In addition, in the current operating system, WP7 system optimization should be done the best, very low accessories can achieve very optimistic fluency, which is not comparable to other systems, but also for the WP7 platform to adapt to different price segments of the market provides a very good foundation. In addition, the localization promotion strategy of WP7 is also a trend of mobile phone system in the future. But its rollout time lags behind, the new system must obtain enough user to accept, and WP7 's entry is slightly difficult, this also very likely brings it into the dilemma. Innovative things always bring challenges and risks.

I disagree that the WP7 outlook is not promising because users have no reason to give up Android and iOS, and of course I don't agree that WP7 will beat iOS and Android. The future of the smartphone market, will not appear eminence situation, will only be crowded, this is long. It is impossible to say that one or three or four operating platforms can meet the needs of all users, because the user's needs are endless, and innovation is endless.

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