Mobile Interfaces and Applications

Mobiface is another blog style site containing links to sites and articles about designing interfaces and applications for mobile devices.

This link shows a user interface which is very intuitive. From what the user inputs at the start screen, it works out what they might be attempting to do and narrows down the options available to them in the context menu. It is a very simple way to make a lot of options available to the user, without having to organise and categorise them in universal ways, and it eliminates the need for the user to remember where all the tools and applications are on their device. It also gives the device a very clean look, as the options presented at each stage of the navigation are only those which make sense to the user.

This highlights the usefulness of making things easy to use for everybody. If something is hard to use, then you will lose a lot of your potential audience. For a community project such as E-vent this could be disastrous, as without a lot of user contributed content, there is no incentive for anyone to sign up.





PingMag has an interesting piece on flash for mobile devices being created as art as well as being functional. They mostly focus on the aesthetic side, with things such as animated screen savers, and interactive wallpapers, rather than applications which are innovative with their functions.










Remember The Milk is a website designed for mobile devices which serves as a sort of personal organiser, as well as syncing up with other applications, such as google calendar. One of the most innovative things about it is the reminder service. You can be reminded of events in your organiser either by SMS, or via one of the many supported instant messaging systems. While it seems like common sense, for an external system such as a website, it is a nice little feature, especially with the inclusion of IM support.

The BenQ Black Box UIC is a fantastic interface concept, which is extremely flexible to fit in with the needs of just about anyone.

The design of the object itself may be nothing special, just a shiny black box (like so many other pieces of technology these days), but the interface is projected onto the surface in real time, and can be changed to suit the users needs for different tasks and applications on the fly. This makes it the perfect device to be used with new pieces of software that will not necessarily have been possible with a standard keypad.