An Analysis and Research on User Interface in iPhone, Android, and Windows Smartphones

Autor: Zhao-Yu Wang, 王兆羽
Rok vydání: 2014
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 102
After the launch of Apple’s iPhone, Smartphones took place as the mainstream in mobile phone market, however, it also cause difficulty of end users with different logic in between the different operation systems. This study focused on the User Interface (UI) with three major operating systems (iOS 7, Android 4.4, Windows Phone 8) to analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of its Design Guidelines, then compile the results of questionnaire to define the tasks of the experiment, and its results are describe below. In the “Design Guidelines” part, iOS has obtained a leading position due to its balanced overview and integrity, but it also won the polarized rating due to its new visual changes. Android has demonstrated a detail engineering-oriented thinking but unable to provide a focus perspective to users. Windows Phone has a clear design of the spindle, but the maturity in details requires much more improvement. In the “Experimental” part, total 7 categories, 17 tasks, there are 3 significant differences after ANOVA analysis, they are "Edit the contact and add to favorite (iOS best)", "Paste the texts and send the email (Android best)", "New/Modify a calendar (Windows Phone best)". Notably, even iOS has some identify problems to reduce its experimental data results, it still scored high satisfaction at evaluation report, this represent thereis no absolute correlation between task efficiency and satisfaction. With combined Design Guidelines analysis and experimental results, this study presents the relevant user interface in design focus: 1. Flat/Smooth information architecture 2. Object-oriented experience 3. The HW/SW navigation keys in the system must be coordinated 4. Contextual user experience 5. Optimize the fingers behavior 6. Optimize the anti-error mechanism.
Databáze: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations
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