Perceptual design of mobile devices

Traditional Web pages rely on the main browser support HTML, CSS, JavaScript to show that the advent of Web applications to bring innovation, including browsers, various plug-ins began to break through the javasript restrictions for online services to bring a rich interaction.

Mobile phones as a new generation of digital products platform, providing performance is far beyond the browser, let us summarize the 3 kinds of technology wave

For operational design
Improve people's work efficiency, mainly for data processing

For communication design
e-mail, even communication, people start to contact

For perceptual Design
The world around us starts to feel, people and objects begin to communicate

As a product designer, you need to understand the capabilities that mobile devices can achieve, while maintaining a focus on new technologies, the following list provides the perceived functionality that the phone has already realized

1. Multi-Touch control
iOS and Android system more than 2.0 version can touch

2. Geographical positioning
GPS: Positioning to 10m precision, time consuming 2-10 minutes, outdoor use, power consumption
Wifi: Positioning to 50m precision, time-consuming, power consumption negligible
Base station: Positioning to 100-2500 precision, time-consuming power consumption negligible

3. Direction of movement
A built-in accelerator for detection

4. Handheld Directional
Through the built-in digital compass, the smartphone can recognize whether the user is horizontal or vertical grip, thus automatically adjusts the page

5. Voice input
Input to the mobile phone, output to the user, Google voice can identify the user's voice, search, solve the problem of mobile phone input inconvenience

6. Video/Picture
Using a camera to capture or enter pictures, Sina Weibo's mobile client has implemented photo upload

7. Real-time notification
Applications can be notified to users in real time, such as when a mobile newspaper sends a reminder to a mobile phone

8. Equipment Connection
Two devices connected via Bluetooth

9. Proximity recognition
Mobile phone is close to other objects, such as credit card shopping

10. Environmental identification
Perceive the intensity of the ambient light

11. Electronic tags (Apple patent)
Through the radio frequency signal automatically identify the target object and obtain the relevant data, library books, supermarkets shopping, logistics management can be seen

12. Tactile feedback (Apple patent)
The various parts of the mobile screen offer different tactile cues that can be used to design for the blind, for example, when designing a music player, you can make the "Play" button protrude.

13. Physiological identification (Apple patent)
Retina, fingerprint identification, can be achieved by fingerprint lock cell phone

14. Gyroscope (IPhone4)
360-degree motion perception, IPhone 4 has been implemented, is good news for game enthusiasts

15. Double-sided camera (iPhone4)
Sensing whether the user is holding the front or back of the phone, automatically enable the rear or front camera

The list mentions the long list of mobile-sensing functions, and many of the devices on the market have been implemented, implying that we are entering a wave of technology-aware worlds and that the age of design for perception comes

Here are two experimental videos that will help you better understand the design concepts of the future

Magic Sixth Sense

Source: http://www.mobilefocus.net/?p=437