An attempt at the third interactive approach

Nokia N9 has done a good job of secrecy, but in fact Marko, senior vice president of the Nokia design team, Ahtisaari a lot of information about MeeGo handsets to outsiders shortly after taking office last year. Last summer, when he interviewed us, he said MeeGo "The whole front of the phone was almost covered by the screen," and emphasized that smartphone design has room to play in terms of "﹑ elegance and simplicity in program switching."

After not too long Marko persuaded the Palm pre design director Peter Skillman to join Nokia. At last year's Nokia Convention and LeWeb Conference, Marko more systematically introduced its own plan: the introduction of a new MeeGo user interface in 2011, which brings a third way to interact with IOS and Windows phone, giving the phone a greater value without the user's full use of God.

As a result we saw this week, just released the Nokia N9 front without any buttons, basically is a 3.9-inch large screen, but also provides a smooth movement of the Switch program experience, elegant and concise appearance. But I have also seen a lot of criticism of the three-master screen and the design of the motion, and many of them seem to misunderstand the way it works. Take a closer look at what the third form of interaction N9 eventually brings.

Multi-Main screen

The "Three main screen" is the official Chinese name, but in fact it is a little strange, it sounds like three pages that function the same. In Nokia's English website This design is become Three simple views, the three main screen is essentially three pages (for the convenience of reading will not be inserted into the picture, please refer to before the start):

by SMS, mail, IM, SNS, RSS and other sources of information flow including the mobile phone on all programs on the program list similar to N900 multi-card multitasking page

If you do not insist on a separate page, just look at the function, IOS 5 also has the three parts: 1, drop-down notification bar, 2, the main interface of the program list, 3, double-click the home key to eject the recent launch program.

But it's clear that IOS 5 most values the list of programs, 1 and 3 are not that high. The interactive logic of Nokia N9 them as equal content. It's not interesting to discuss the pros and cons of both models, but just talk about how Marko and his design team make such a parallel "three-master screen" design simple and elegant.

gesture

The N9 is the most important interactive way. To ensure that the normal operation within the program is not affected, Nokia adds a touch area around the N9. Only the screen from outside the screen will be judged as the text of the movement of the gesture, in the screen, or inadvertently from the screen to draw the screen display area will not trigger.

In addition, do not be in the video four directions to delimit the control of the halo, only a kind of gesture gestures, from the screen anywhere from the screen to be the same operation. The concrete logic is shown in the following picture:

The user has only one result to move from the outer edge of the screen to the point where it starts. Let's just say:

I see an e-mail message under the Information Flow page, click into the mail program, after the move directly back to the notification interface; I open Notepad in the list of programs, write two sentences, and then directly return to the list of programs; Multitasking is the same, but because we typically start programs from a list of programs, multitasking occurs less frequently than N900 so frequent--as long as more than one program to run, according to the Virtual home button automatically appear multitasking interface, people involuntarily want to close the program. N9 generally does not want to imply that users have nothing to do to shut down the program, 1GB of memory also reduces the demand for human intervention by multitasking.

That is to say, when using N9: Each time the screen is illuminated, it is unlocked by a stroke, the main screen is returned by a stroke under any program, and the other main screen is switched to the other master after any movement.

The N9 completely runs through the entire operation, and it is not meant to be "cooler" or "different". Global strike means that users no longer need to drop down into the notification bar, no longer need to press the home key to enter the main screen, no longer need to double click to pull out multiple taskbar.

This is Marko before many activities in the emphasis on the "head", so that users do not need to do too much precise operation, whether you use the left or right hand, the habit of a single hand or hands, now is a horizontal screen or vertical screen, all you have to do is to row it. As a result of a lot of operation, the hardware design of N9 also optimized, the entire screen radian so that the fingers in the stroke more comfortable.

In addition to the

-related design, N9 also provides convenient operations elsewhere to help users reduce the time they pay attention to the screen. For example, give up N900 's multiple-screen Widget design and instead provide a page that collects all the information you need to see;

Marko Ahtisaari, the Finnish man who taught philosophy and Grammy and founded an internet company, has revolutionized Nokia's previous years of extreme old-fashioned design in less than a year of accepting design. I'm not sure most people like N9, after all, it has a learning curve--if a salesperson or a quick-start guide can provide a straightforward explanation, the average user should be able to adapt quickly. The use of English and Chinese technology media are mostly still more buy, slashgear people say that just need to adapt to the beginning, but after a while will feel this operation unexpected intuition.

For those reasons, which have been said countless times before, N9 's sales prospects are not clear. After all, Enop needs to build a third ecosystem rather than a third way of interacting. But the designers and developers of Nokia have come up with new ways of interacting, and they have done it with simplicity and elegance.

Source: http://www.ifanr.com/44440