Life Hub Application Design On Microsoft Windows Phone7System

With the fast development of mobile Internet, iOS and Android for the mobile operating system seize the opportunity to rise rapidly and become the leading mobile phone operating systems. As the leader of PC, Microsoft started relatively slow in mobile field. In2012March, Windows Phone7was formally published in mainland Chinafor its first time which indicates that Microsoft officially entered the smart phone market of Chinese mainland. Android and iOS have absolutely hold the dominate positionin present, but according to the survey of global smart phone market, only31%people own a smart phone. As for Microsoft, there is still a great chance to enter the mobile phone market.Actually, the excellent performance by iOS and Android is closely related to their applications, and the large number of applications is the most direct reason attracting users of the two systems. Compared with other mobile phone systems, Windows Phone7released later and the apps in marketplace is far less than others’, which is the mainreason that restricts the development of WP7mobile phone in global market. In orderto change this situation, the most important task is spare no efforts to rich the application store.The basic purpose of Life Hub is to match the publishing of Windows Phone7in themainland of China. In order to win Chinese users, Microsoft China Innovation Groupdecided to develop a life application which is closely related to users’ daily life. According to the survey data, the number of life applications is large, but most of them arenot complete and have high repetition rate. Few single application functions well andthe application data is not very rich. So an integrated application is urgent needed byChinese users.This report is about the project in my internship in Microsoft and records how to develop a project, how to discover and solve problems in designing process and how to cooperate with other team members. At the same time, in this paper, the author puts forward a new concept--Symbiotic Product Analysis，which aims at the “Competing Product Analysis” in development process. The authorholds, from the broad sense and practical analysis, the relationship between similar products should not be "competitive" but "symbiosis". Because, in the same area, products may not annihilate each other, but survive in the evolution only by researching an d learning from each other, just as the biological community. The product, which canaccess the user’s heart in evolution, will hold the first place in this ecosystem.