User Interaction Design: Mobile product interactive design style

Article Description: User interaction Design: Mobile phone product interaction design style.

Many people say that mobile phone product interaction constraints, too small screen resolution, low system performance, too slow speed, too weak battery endurance and so on. But in the limits also can make the outstanding design, only then appears is precious, just like the popular Symbian platform Gravity.

In fact, I think mobile phone product interaction design still have a lot of imagination space, it is not just interface interaction, but with space, with time, with touch, with vision, with hearing, with the smell of the interaction, and with the passage of technology, I believe that the interface will be more and more scalable, whether it is electronic paper (epaper), or the application of projection technology to mobile phones, will allow the mobile interface to be able to host more content, more complex interaction.

When we use mobile phone products, visual, tactile, auditory is often triggered. Here I classify the interactive design styles of Internet products: visual interaction style, tactile interaction style, auditory interaction style and olfactory interaction style.

1 Visual

1.1 Interface

The information communication function of the interface does not repeat, the influence to the interaction is Brong.

Here I would like to say that the vision is not only refers to the interface, but the screen itself from the mobile phone's visual effects, to allow users to experience the visual more and more rich effect.

1.2 Track Ball

When a new message arrives, a mobile phone with an LED track ball will flash the trackball and play a role in reminding. I believe that in the near future, the multicolored track ball and track ball can be realized, then you can according to different trackball color and text reminders, in the state of the screen Anxia can also determine what is new news, from WHO.

Fig. 1 The HTC Hero and BlackBerry 8900 trackball can blink when incoming calls come in.

1.3 LED

The current mainstream mobile phone LED indicators are mostly controllable, including the color of the LED, bright time, the time of the long, can be controlled. Before the light is used in the hint is not enough, when the electricity is fast, the light will be flashing red according to a certain frequency. When charging, the red light is often bright, full of electricity and then turned green. Later LED is used in the reminder function, there are new messages, missed calls, the LED will also strobe.

Fig. 2 Nokia N900, LED, power-on, charge, call will be lit

1.4 Projection

Logic Wirele with a projection function of the mobile phone, many people think is the victory of Chinese shanzhai phones. It is understood that the earliest projection phone models from southern China.

Figure 3 This logic wireless projection mobile phone logic bolt is about to be listed in the United States, signing price of 2 years around 100 dollars

Figure 43 Star projection mobile phone i7410, built-in Texas Instruments DLP Micro-technology projector, projection of the image size up to 50 inches, you can slide, video playback and other mobile functions to provide projection services

With the development of science and technology, holographic projection is the future of projection. Designer Mac Funamizu designed the revolutionary concept of a mobile phone using holographic technology, the screen part of the phone is a hole, using holographic technology to generate images, so that you can not only see each other on the phone, but also see the other side of the 3D image, you can rotate from different angles of view, It's like a real scene. You can also view Google's three-dimensional maps through such techniques.

Fig. 5 Trou Hologram revolutionary concept using holographic technology mobile phone

2 Tactile

2.1 Key operation

Tactile style, have to mention the key operation, the key can perform basic operations, such as back to the main screen, the menu bar, you can also perform shortcut operation, such as with 1, 3 keys to turn the screen, with the Volume key page and so on.

2.2 Gesture Operation

Touch-screen mobile phone appearance, let gesture operation become more and more sought after. Swap the location of the application by dragging and dropping it long. With two fingers stretching, enlarge the picture.

Figure 6 Common gesture operations

2.3 Tactile Feedback

You hit a person, there will be a rebound force to tell you that you hit him. You press a button on the phone, we will change the status of the button to tell you that it was in the point. But Nexus one uses a different form to give you feedback, which is vibration feedback.

Figure 7 Google's Nexus One mobile phone, when you press a physical button, the hand opportunity to vibrate, telling you it was in the point. This approach has also been tried in Samsung Anycall Haptic.

Figure 83 Star Anycall Haptic mobile phone, the use of certain functions can be tactile to the user to pass information.

This feedback was used early in the phone call to remind, in fact, there are many can use the scene. This is the biggest difference between mobile phone and computer, you can not imagine, you click on a computer on a button, a large host or monitor vibrate what is it?

Sony developed the "tactile engine (touchengine)" Using a tactile generator, the electronic signal into motion, it can be the rhythm of vibration, intensity and changes in the speed and other aspects of the difference to tell the user who is calling or the emergency level of the call. Let the experience come more concrete and real.

The "Photo-induced shape memory Aggregation display screen" (light-induced shape-memory Polymer display screens) gives the touch-screen devices more vivid feedback.

Figure 9 Microsoft Photo-induced shape memory aggregation display screen patent

This set is mainly about the use of infrared to detect touch, at the same time selectivity to change the surface state of things, that is, to make the surface concave convex, or flat compliant, all rely on a specific wavelength of light to determine, such as the system can be the default for the button, the projection of a certain wavelength of light, then the place will show the projection, Once the hand contact with the surface, it is bound to interfere with the projection light, the system if the detection of a considerable degree of change, will automatically let the surface of flat, sunken and other changes. Believe that the time, designers have to consider the effect of screen press, and perhaps also do the PC on the "mouse hover" effect, when your mobile phone in a certain point area above, will get more detailed operation tips.

3 Hearing

With the development of digital audio technology, it has become very popular to interact with users by sound. A more common message, such as the arrival of new messages, is that Twitter's new messages are being given to birds (Twitter's Chinese name is often translated into "birdsong" by the media).

The human ear can easily distinguish the intensity, length, tone, timbre, rhythm and melody of the sound. Therefore, the sound has been used as a visual supplement to enhance the user experience. Common ways of voice feedback are-

3.1 Feedback Sound

We use mobile phone input, the different mobile phone will be accompanied by the button action to produce different feedback tone, similar operation button is clicked, can have corresponding feedback tone. Registration success, upgrade success can also have a successful reminder feedback tone.

3.2 Warning Tone

When performing dangerous operations, login failure, download failure, low power, countdown time will come, will play a warning tone to tell us that there is danger;

3.3 Beep

When you use the iphone to send text messages, there will be a confirmation beep after the sending succeeds. Sina Weibo client Weico Refresh timeline If there is a new message to reach, there will be a new message beep. The advantage of this note is that you can perform the operation and then take other things, if you hear the beep, you know the message was successful, a new message arrived, effectively informed the user.

3.4 Quasi-physical sound

When the file is cleared, play the sound of the garbage dump when the trash is dumped. QQ Friends Online, there will be a cough reminder, there are new add Friends request, there will be a knock on the door to remind.

3.5 Vocals

Can you remind yourself by imitating the human voice? The ipod shuffle relies on the voiceover feature to become the first talking ipod. If you are listening to a song, you want to know its name or performer's name. Just click on the New button at the top of the IPod shuffle and it will tell you 3. You can even hear the names of playlists by VoiceOver and switch between them. In addition, if your battery needs to be recharged, VoiceOver will also tell you.

The voiceover of the IPod shuffle will speak for 25 different languages, and it can say the names of the songs and performers in your native language.

Of course, while hearing can make a lot of fun interactive experiences, it's not entirely dependent on auditory interaction, because there are still a lot of problems with auditory interaction on mobile devices-the environment, the complexity and variety of mobile phones, and the noisy environments of subways, roads, The sound of the phone may become negligible and the recognition of the auditory interaction will be compromised, and noise, when overly dependent on the sound, may create a noise that interferes with other people's lives.

Therefore, auditory interaction should be used in conjunction with visual interaction, and given user control, users can cancel unwanted auditory feedback.

4 sense of smell

Compared with the use of vision and hearing in interactive systems, people's ability to perceive and respond to odors has not been well utilized. Related studies have shown that odors can effectively evoke certain emotions. With the development of interactive technology, the olfactory experience is being paid more and more attention.

We may not have a home audio and video system like surround stereo, widescreen High-definition TV, and the designer David Sweeney's "surround smell" has brought us into a new wave of experience. The device is built with 16 unique, novel scents, controlled by a micro-voltage pump, that can emit different smells based on different scenes in the TV, to convey different messages. For example, when the movie plot into the tropical jungle, the whole room will be filled with a smell of the jungle, so that people can create a feeling of immersive.

Summary

The rapid development of interactive technology has brought about novel interactions, and the lenses that appeared in the movies yesterday are living in our lives today. But these forms are all clouds, are to please the user, good user experience is our ultimate pursuit.

The above is for visual interaction, tactile interaction, auditory interaction, olfactory interaction of several major types of interactive style, although the current mobile phone product interaction design is still most of the interface in the visual interaction phase, the key mobile phone will have a number of buttons and interface interaction, but I believe we will be in the interface interaction structure, Explore more interactive design possibilities, simplify complex interaction design, stand in the user's perspective, and continuously enhance the interactive experience

This article is personal analysis, no theory, no norms, if there is insufficient, also hope to point out.