Mobile User Interface Design HTT Today Topic Mobile

“ Mobile User Interface Design HTT ”

Today Topic Mobile devices Selecting application technologies Mobile design principles Mobile UI design patterns

1 Mobile devices Is This Mobile devices ?

What is "Mobile" anyhow? ‘wireless’ describing how the device communicates digitally……. . ? ‘handheld’ : captures the essence of the size of the devices in question remote controls ? Mobile phones epitomize mobile devices (include : PDA, i. Pod, game boy, . . etc Fundamentally, ‘mobile’ refers to the user, and not the device or the application

Mobile devices PCD Characteristic

2 Selecting Application Technology Button Input Modality Speech Button + Speech Visual + Button Interaction Responsiveness

Selecting Application Technology Data Storage Location Aural Display Modality Visual Display Tactile Display

Platform Characteristic

3 Mobile Design Principle • The Carry Principle small device multi-purpose • users won’t carry large devices • users won’t carry a variety of singlepurpose devices full time personal device • the device is not shared, and is likely to be customized always on, always connected • instead of being turned on only for use, PCDs are turned off only to preclude interruption for various temporary reasons battery-powered wireless • and thus inconsistent –connectivity

Handling Device Proliferation • four basic approaches to designing an application to run on multiple devices lect a set of targeted vices (mobile and full -sized) and then write an pplication that works on them only Targeted Least common denominator Class-based Automatic translation