Interface Design

So I've learned a valuable lesson today. DO NOT PREVIEW PHOTOSHOP FILES WHILE THE FILE IS OPEN...1 file majorly corrupted, luckily I have saved the file as something else a few steps before this error. On the plus side here is the finished design I had for my Samsung Galaxy SIII lock screen .

Mobile interface experimenting

After doing some research into the topic of mobile interfaces I found circular menus and circular icons to be very trendy and quite sleek. They really caught me as a modern style of design. To me circular designs are much more provoking than the generic sharp edged boxed design. 

I experimented with this idea and heres are the designs which I came up with. 

This is my home screen. The main tools and apps are located around the circular menu in the centre. These are adaptable and can be taken away and added to the menu as the user pleases. The time and date are located in the centre. To open each of these items the user simply has to swipe away from the circle. The regular application menu is located in the bottom right hand corner. The flash light, which is my own personal preference for a tool is located in the top right for convenience. While I wont change much to the phone itself I will change the colour to red and white as it reminds me of the Nokia 5300 which was one of my favourite devices.

 The lock screen works in a similar fashion to the home screen the lock screen works in a similar way to the old dial up phones. The passcode is accessed by swiping clockwise and counter clockwise putting in the correct pattern.

Now the settings screen hasn't adapted the circular menus however it does consist of the same amount of swipe interactivity. Instead of a long list of menu items, I have categorised them into the sections that are located on the left hand side of the screen.

The task tool is another one of my most frequently used tools. I felt the need to update this because I did not like the layout of the original design. The concept is simple. There is a list of different tasks labelled in order of priority. Tap on an item to read and edit it. Swipe to the left to get the option screen, seen on number three in this example. The options menu include, delete, bump up, mail and print.

I am only required to design four phone designs, however I do have another idea that I would like to share. Have you ever gone onto your phone just for the sake of it, not knowing what to read or browse through. I always do it. I would like to adapt the circular menu seen on my home screen design and a spinner So basically the user can place whichever apps they frequently use and spin the circle around by swiping the edge of the circle. Similar to winning streak the user will land on a random option.

Mobile research

I really like this design but it's togh to where I could implement it in my phone 

This design makes great use of screen space for the task tool, a tool which I am going to be designing for as I use this tool on a daily basis.

Symbol recognition without textual aids

I am very curious to know when the day will come when app design will not rely on textual aid for application symbols. We all recognize that the green light on a traffic light means go. New symbols come into web design everyday, I would like to know how long it will take for a symbol to be recognized by the user without textual aid. . Here are some of the symbols that have become instantly recognizable to me. 

Random design

I am just surfing through Pinterest looking up app designs. Here is a nice and simple design I have found, I really like the colors 

S.E.O

I am adding this link to another blog for Search Engine optimization.
Creative Multimedia Programming

Handy Flash tutorial

This was a great tutorial in Flash that I found on YouTube. While it isn't useful at this moment in time, I know it will be soon. YouTube It describes the ActionScript that enables the user to use keyboard arrows to move an object.