AM+A

Babyface Design for Mobile Devices and the Web

Small displays on mobile devices and information appliances, e.g., cellular phones and personal digital assistants, provide special challenges to effective user-interface (UI) design, especially for Web-based services. This extreme form of UI design can be called babyface design. Challenges include limited spatial and color resolution, limited font choice, limited space, and information visualization in the form of miniature charts, maps, and diagrams, particularly table/list navigation. Current products will improve as designers gain more experience.


The complete article can be viewed in the file below.

Files:
BabyfaceDesignMobileDevicesWeb_HCII01_Marcus_16Apr01.pdf
Posted on 30 September 2010 in Archives | No Comments » You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Comments are closed.

We help people
make smarter
visual decisions
faster for any
technology
platform
content
context
community