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The page-flipping control is an easily overlooked but indispensable part of many mobile phone products, and today we will discuss some superficial views on the classification and use of the page-flip control of mobile phone products.

In the handset-side product, the paging control's display form is multifarious, with the display http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/9355.html "> Information content Nature and user's use situation as the dimension divides, Can be roughly divided into several types:

Products displayed by the information in the "timeliness" "relevance" "content quality" and other attributes have a higher weight; mainly including news products, micro-BO products, SNS application of new friends and so on. In the use of scenarios, such as news, microblogging products such as, users usually focus on the latest generated information, older information is slowly sinking over time; This requires a simple paging operation, but also easy to quickly refresh the page to get the latest information.

The information displayed has strong "continuity" and "flow" attributes, typical examples are network novels, e-books and other long reading information. Comparing the traditional reading behavior, this type of product paging operation to as much as possible in accordance with the user's psychological model: A book in hand, how thick the book, how much to see, the book Chapter directory, last read where (through the bookmark or hinge, etc.) ... are at a glance; At this point of the page control, not only to provide a simple front and back page function, but also to tell users the current reading position (such as "23/344 pages", etc.), to provide quick page and positioning functions (such as page jump function and thumbnail browsing, etc.), but also to mark the last reading position.

This is an ebook under the Android operating system page control, by selecting a percentage to roughly position the entire book reading position, and then in a small range to accurately turn the page number of books, basically in line with our usual reading of some of the behavior of paper books (took a book, I remember the wonderful episode when the book read half, like the fifth chapter? Should be on these pages, 80 pages? Not in the back; Oh, I got it, on page 81.

The information is displayed in the form of a list, and each piece of information is relatively independent. They are arranged and rendered in chronological order, or alphabetically, or randomly. For example, Forum products list of posts, blog posts list, picture library, Media Library and so on. Users can easily jump between the various pages, such as in the Forum, post bar to see a relatively old posts, or in the picture library to browse the name of "M" all the pictures ...

(above) The ipad's previous application of the page-flipping control, click the control to display the current page while browsing the contents of other pages, without having to flip through the page.

Again, the display of mobile phone-page control, from this dimension, can be divided into two major categories:

First, according to the characteristics of different platforms, to play the advantages, enhance the operation experience; For example, the page-flipping controls for some products on the iphone platform phone:

These controls are richer in form, and the design enriches the operation experience; The disadvantage is that it takes up more hardware resources and is not suitable for the paging display of massive information.

Two. In many mobile applications, you can also see a lot of this from the service side of the paging control, more than a series of text links in the form of display. These controls are usually composed of the following elements:

1. Previous page, the next page of the jump

2. Home page, end of the jump

3. Page Number link

4. Current position indication (such as: 3/56 pages, etc.)

5. Page Jump Control (enter the page number and then jump)

6. Link text "Show more ..."

7. Jump between chapters (novel category products)

......

The most reasonable combination of these elements, the user is the most convenient to use, depending on the circumstances.

The above is the mobile phone end product page control to do some of the superficial sorting induction. specifically to design applications, we need to consider the design using page-flipping controls, depending on the nature of the product, the user's operating scenarios, the characteristics of the mobile phone and the operating platform itself.

From "Baidu Mux": http://mux.baidu.com/2011/03/763/