User interface personalisation
Task:
To find new innovative ways for users to personalise their usage of mobile phones and to design a concept
or an application that supports that.
Methods used:
- Questionnaires and surveys to get ideas and inspiration
- Extreme characters to find hidden requirements
- Personal inventory to identify requirements and study the lifestyle of potential users
- Character profiles for adaptation of identified profiles for interaction
- “Big papers” to get a clear picture of the design and its coherence, to sort and structure the information
- Paper prototyping for the initial prototyping
Results
Smart Defaults: Mobile recognises the way you are using it and selects the most used option automatically. Mobile phone becomes “intelligent” and adjusts defaults according to users needs. Benefits include more effective browsing and possible decreased physical strain on the mobile. Mobile phone becomes “intelligent”.
Functionality customisation: Possibility to choose which functions to use through presets. Possibility to remove or hide undesired functionality. Benefits include smaller cognitive load on the user, clean UI, adaptation to different user groups through funcion presets.
Contact organisation: Organise contacts in to groups to make them more usable. Group sms would become easier to send.
File system: Possibility for users to add custom information to files and folders. Those that use the phone to store waste amount of files will find file browsing and searching significantly easier.
