Research On Information User Interface Design Of The Mobile Phone

With the rapid growth and spread of 3C products(Computers, Communication, and Consumer electronics) since the 21st century, these products, together with the information they store and transmit, have significantly changed our life, bringing us a brand new life style. Mobile phone, which is most close to people's life, has reached up to 2-billion users all over the world since its invention only 33 years ago. Moreover, the number is still growing, which implies a huge economic opportunity.Mobile phone is a kind of products which integrate both hardware and software. In the earlier time, design of mobile phone mainly focuses on the hardware interface. However, software design gradually shows its importance when technology has been highly developed and design for information interface turns to "easy to use" and "user experience" to meet the demand of the market.As one of the latest and preceding research areas, information interface design still has no mature theories, which brings more constraints on the research in this thesis.This thesis first goes through the history and research result of information interface, and then gives a detailed analysis to each step in the actual design process. After that, a new design idea is proposed from the inform ation framework. At last, it concludes that information interface design for mobile phone is a design practice which is guided by information design theory, user-centered, and aimed for better user experience.The research of this thesis is based on information design theory, and combines varies system design methodology and cognitive psychology and so on. According to the development process of information interface design for mobile phone, launched a research on user study, structural design, interactive design, visual design and evaluation systems. This is the first innovative point of this thesis."User Centered Design"(UCD) is the core idea of nowadays design. This thesis integrates the design idea into interface design, and brings forth ideas such as "let the users take part in the design of the interface", "user centered design", "aim to make the users get best experience". This is the second innovative point of this thesis.The research object is several major domestic and international famous brands of mobile phone interface, and also point out a possible improvement idea on the unreasonable aspect of interface design. This is the third innovative point of this thesis.The evaluation is an important step in the process of the interface development, the requirements and standards of the evaluation must take into the actual. This thesis chose the Nokia N73 which is most popular in current market, and iphone which is said "change the focus of the whole industry" for a target. This is the fourth innovative point of this thesis.