Smart phone has extricated people’s life from designated internet hot spots in this fast evolving society of information, data, multimedia, and social networking.
Smart phone has integrated personal cell phones and PDA(Personal Digital Assistant) ...
Smart phone has extricated people’s life from designated internet hot spots in this fast evolving society of information, data, multimedia, and social networking.
Smart phone has integrated personal cell phones and PDA(Personal Digital Assistant) by adding data transferring capabilities to the ordinary cell phones.
This integration have also help to develop millions of different application, which user have the full control of installing and to use.
Launching of Apple iphone in 2009 have started phenomenon in smart phone industry. Also, this phenomenon revitalized development of app store, which distributes applications for the smart phones. Purpose of this research will be focused on guideline for the app icons to deliver the correct and useful data to the users with cognitive factor and emotional factor. In order to obtain this purpose, following progress and method have been used.
First, Look into basic understanding of the UI(User Interface), which is the most important concept in app icon, and inquire knowledge about the GUI (Graphic User Interface).
Second, Collect data about the use of the smart phones to understand the essential purpose for the app icons and the importance of its design.
Third, Figure out basic fundamental in designing the app icon by gathering data from the current smart phone app user and analyze it.
Forth, Survey current smart phone user to find out the expecting cognitive and emotional factors and come up with fundamental design guidelines according to different character types of smart phone users.
Through this research and the survey, conclusion was clear that designing of app icon must consider different characteristic of users.
There are lots of factors to determine this, but common preferences amongst the smart phone users were the neatness and the sleekness. Therefore, to best design the app icons, which will transfer the information and the data is to consider the latest fad while keeping it simplified.