On Mobile Social Application Design

The social websites are becoming an important place in recent yearsfor people to play and communicate with each other. This change leadspeople not to communicate face to face so that relations between peopleare being weakened while people need to ask for help when being introuble in daily life. To try to change this situation, a mobile socialapplication of the help with the mobile Internet technology is designedin this paper, aiming to help people solve some difficulties in daily life soto improve the emotional communication and to promote people’s lifeexperience.Firstly, the methodology of context interview is used to explore thedifferent scenarios where people are in difficulties and how they ask forhelp by judging others’reliability. Then the design demands and functionsare extracted and the preliminary design is resulted, including informationarchitecture, flow chart, subsidies true prototype and so on. Finally, theuser test is carried out to verify the usability and validity of this designand redesign is then finished. This study can not only provide a new direction for the designing of the mobile social application and help tosolve some social problems, but also can be a reference and experimentalbasis for building credit mechanism and improving the interpersonalcommunication. At the same time this study probes into the designmethod on context interview, usability testing, etc. which can be areference for the future research.