Three suggestions on interactive design of mobile phone products

For the current smartphone market, the interactive design of the product is a very important aspect of the phone's appeal to the user, and when the product manager defines the user model and requirements, the UI frame map can be drawn. The first is the interactive process design, you can sketch, you can use Visio or Axure tools, the most important thing is to record the complete design thinking. To know in advance of their own home page to give the user what kind of intuitive feeling, is that most features are displayed on a home page of the complex information or a small number of button flow-type. This is an interactive designer's skill as well as a UI designer's understanding of the product, especially for small-screen phones, how to express the user's real needs in as little form as possible. This gives the following three recommendations:

1. Mobile interface Interactive Frame process

First of all, according to the needs of users to arrange the level of information needs, but also means that the most users need information, in the visual most important position to display. Small cell phone screen, for the user's needs to grasp the importance of a particular, can be a clear understanding of the product's specific framework, to the product demand a priority.

Then design the corresponding menu of hidden functions, but do not put the most intuitive user functions in the menu items (such as: Add accounts, open their own saved files, etc.), will generally place "help", "about", "exit" and some unimportant small functions. When there are too many function keys in the left menu, it is recommended to put some unimportant small functions such as "help", "about", "exit" into the level two menu.

Then the design of the first page of the relevant interface. Remember to maintain a unified operating logic, if the menu item in the first page of the function, do not become the button on the pages, and the front page button on the back of the menu will not squeeze to the next item. Design as much as possible to maintain consistency, small screen to give users too much of the jump, the user needs is intuitive, convenient to find their own content.

After a phased interactive outcome, with the corresponding development engineers to communicate or use the thinking of the software to refine, consider implementation, if there is a certain degree of difficulty, you can appropriately modify the elements of the UI design, but the premise is to maintain the same information architecture, does not affect meeting user needs, and does not affect the smooth use of users.

A perfect software to have a detailed development schedule, at a point in time what kind of version, the development engineer to communicate with the UI designer in advance, or not easy to open a version, need to communicate, and for the development engineer version of the product visual effects may have a great impact, UI designers are required to make their own changes to the color and interface effects of mobile text (mobile UI test). Especially for small companies, to give full play to the characteristics of small teams (small companies, light process), in the process of development must be timely communication in all aspects of the problems arising, at any time constantly modify the technical problems to make perfect products.

2. About interface Design

After the interactive design is complete, there is still a step to make the interaction appear on the mobile screen, which is the graphic design. In essence, the two designs can not be separated, should be considered at the same time, otherwise, good interactive design will not be able to translate into excellent graphic effect, the entire UI will not achieve a strong impact and ease of use. Therefore, the interface design must also be taken seriously.

Designers need to have a relatively professional art skills and skilled design software control capabilities. That is to say, many beautiful effects are difficult for development engineers to complete. And many engineers are accustomed to some free web site to download graphics, or directly used before the background or pictures, sometimes to achieve the purpose of the interface, but it is difficult to meet the target users of the ultimate needs, while the product's aesthetic effect is also poor. Consider two suggestions from the user's point of view:

First, the product comes from life. When you do user-defined time has been analyzed by the target users around the common products, this can be a good basis for the mobile interface. Therefore, we must carefully search for the most representative of the target user preferences products. Graphic interface to a certain extent and they like the common products match, after all, the target user's aesthetic orientation will also affect the product sales and market response. Remember that the traditional web users have given a typical example, assuming that the positioning of the female users are basically young and full of vitality, but the type of busy business, around the products to digital products and simple and elegant and fine details of the product, the graphical interface to meet their information and the priority of the message needs, But also to meet their color, texture and other special requirements.

and the free web site to download the graphics itself is not targeted for the target user to do special design, only to achieve with the target users relatively appropriate and, in particular, not suitable for the very innovative and relatively trendy user groups of software.

Second, the UI is suitable for a variety of scenarios. Mobile phone collection is the user's scattered time, to make mobile phone products, the scene also has a certain specificity, especially for lying on the bed and ride time, these two occupy the mobile phone more time to spend time, the UI for the selection of the scene is particularly important.

3. Suggestions for design methods of mobile phone products

About the mobile phone product design method, talk about two point idea.

1 Develop your own UI design team, reduce communication costs, and when your company is good enough to retain talent, develop your own UI design team, start with the newly graduated student training, slowly assume more interactive design tasks, and become the main responsibility for future interaction design. This is the best way to help you master your own products and develop products that meet the needs of your users.

2 If there is no suitable UI designer to join your team, and the product has a large demand for customized pictures, high quality, then recommended that you adopt design outsourcing. Now there are a lot of companies engaged in outsourcing design work, more professional, but the time is relatively tense, long cycle of projects or always change the demand for them is very difficult to complete, in addition, graphic design companies can not be like the internal team of designers to communicate at any time, at any time can be creative with the team, Basically only responsible for achieving your creativity. Domestic famous EICo design, etc. are for a large number of domestic web sites, mobile phones, etc. to provide first-class services. If you need someone to help you create a better idea, the graphic outsourcing company does not necessarily meet your needs.

I'm a product manager with a high demand for UI design, and when the product doesn't make me feel satisfied, I prefer to spend more time landscaping, and many times the UI material is willing to go by myself to find the idea of the product designed by the UI designer or give the product design and product design inspiration, to achieve the desired effect. With the first eye of the product to win the user, this is my product UI design requirements, but also the requirements of the product.