Impact of Design on the Sustainability of Mobile Applications
| Autor: | Matthias Mokosch, Hans-Knud Arndt, Bartosz Dziubaczyk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Environmental Science and Engineering ISBN: 9783642360107 ITEE |
| Popis: | Within the context of a consumer, who is anywhere contactable via mobile phone or a mobile access to the internet and his fast changing needs, it becomes more and more important to create a balance in the product-life-cycle. With regard to the design and sustainability of software the requirements to a programmer and the department of information technology in a company are getting higher, especially on mobile Applications (Apps) for mobile devices. The paper aims to explain what makes a good design for Apps and which types of Apps exist. Afterwards a description of the characteristics of a sustainable designed App and a comparison between Apple Design versus Metro Style (was changed due to copyright issues to “Windows 8-style UI”) follows. In connection to the environmental friendliness of Apps it is to be recorded that material and energy have to be saved everywhere it is possible. Developers have the responsibility to create applications in a way that is as efficient as possible. The design of an App can be updated with just one mouse click which is far easier than updating hardware, because hardware can’t be updated and has to be completely exchanged. The update principle is an important step towards sustainability. Software does not really pollute the environment but there is a kind of virtual pollution of the environment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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