The "personification trend" of interactive design, from Hemingway's talk

"The conversations in Hemingway's novels are different from others. Most writers write dialogues that are particularly logical, and their dialogues are coherent and logical. Hemingway's dialogue, the surface seems to be illogical, and sometimes even to each other, intermittent, and very implicit, but in fact I think he is to restore the life of dialogue, the daily life of the dialogue is not so logical. "-my writing comes from thinking in reading

By guoping The history of private reading P223

I have heard more than 5 peers said, Google is an engineer culture, its products are engineers do not even design sense, only geek love, ordinary users difficult to start. I don't know how this idea came into being, but it doesn't explain how much Google's share of the North American market is. From the use point of view, there are some products and design to go more extreme such as wave, but also have Gmail so that people are attracted and chasing the design.

And Google's latest 3 product updates and 1 new products Google Instant search release, I was impressed, a sigh of its bold, two successive updates let me feel strongly that Google's design is directly through the interface style/information organization visual requirements, In turn, more and more attention is given to simulating the way of thinking and behavior of natural people.

The first time with the new version of Google Image Search, the page opened after a fright, a pile of pictures at sixes and sevens there, not neat, how to arrange this? According to the usual thinking, orderly arrangement, more useful for query retrieval (not to mention the page is more beautiful).

Why are search results neat? Why should the list be beautiful? What is the core requirement here? Find things conveniently and quickly navigate to target objects. "Picture" this natural shape of different objects, why should it generally tall and fat thin only "more suitable for browsing inquiries"? Many people's desks are at sixes and sevens, but they never affect what he touches when he calls. The powerful arrangement and combination function of the Web page makes the designer have the desire to arrange and organize in an innate way, too much emphasis on the user experience, the details are everywhere considered whether it is common sense, but it is easy to ignore the main direction of the design may be a problem-user's use may not follow the logic

The limitations of design, sometimes the limitations of the mindset. Google Image Search can detect people's habits, out of Set thinking/design principles, the introduction of new interactions, it is not easy.

Google Reader Mobile is a refreshing one from the information organization. In the OPERAMINI5@SYMBIAN40 non-smartphone environment, the old GR Mobile browsing up with the web version is not very different, you need to click on the title link to open the full text, the spacing between the article is also similar to the Web page, giving people the feeling is a GR narrow screen version. A new version of jamming elements, such as the large spacing between articles, around the wireframe) have been removed, information organization to simplify the title + summary of this information block, click on the object is the entire information block, click on the local expansion of the full text (before and after the article information block); The next message block hover activated. The anthropomorphic design here is to simulate (or pinpoint) the needs of people--to open the information directly, rather than the style of the information. This mu three-point interaction, is to achieve the ultimate.

Gmail Priority Inbox (Chinese explanation), more like a research from the perspective of optimization, analog people to deal with day-to-day matters of the sort of psychology: priority to return to important mail, such as boss.

Google Instant Search (call for instant searching) The two days before the line, after reading the introduction video, I was impressed by your input, to speculate your search intentions (Predictions–we predict the rest of your query (in Light gray text) unreported you finish typing. ）。 This is more personification, not only conform to the user's "lazy", but also meet the "immediately see the results" of the psychological.

The relationship between people and machines is getting closer, boundaries are increasingly blurred, and we are now in the concept of a natural user-centric, perhaps not soon, such as robot user-centric design (Norman in the design of future products), the established design concept may be reformed, The design of Google's products is beginning to emerge as a new trend, perhaps an important direction.

Objectified This documentary on industrial design, there is a definition that I agree with--the designer is the future intellectual. In other words, the future world will demand more and more designers, and you may need to be a behavioral scientist and psychologist first.

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