The User Experience Design Of Social LBS Apps In Smart Phone

We are now entering an era: smart phones are increasing dramatically, and promoting the popularization of mobile technology. Mobile Internet is now creating the phenomena that "once written, everywhere is published" .Mobile users brought the needs of Location based service, so more and more companies have designed many apps related with LBS, and the trend is increasing very fast.However, theoretical study can't keep up with the rapid development of the mobile Internet. There is a lack of in-depth research in interface design and user experience research of LBS apps. Based on the User Experience Honeycomb, Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Cyber Social Networks, do some deep research on the user experience and the interface design of LBSNS apps in smart phone.This thesis combined the theoretical study and practical user research, including the introduction of concept and trend of LBS, the user experience of different social LBS apps, and the analysis of customer situation. The user research part makes use of questionnaire, observation, interview and card sorting in order to get user's demands and expectations when they use the LBS apps. Then, the thesis summarizes several aspects of the design principle and designs a new LBSNS app named IU according to the design guides. Finally, forecast the development trend in mobile Internet for social LBS application and hope to make suggestion for the designers and developers of mobile apps.