A graphic designer's view on the interaction design for mobile application development

摘要

Typical workflow for the design and development of mobile applications in a user-centered way requires a close collaboration between the interdisciplinary team members. Since efficiency also implies the ability for rapid prototyping and versioning of mobile applications, it is very important to choose the appropriate tools and understand their strengths and weaknesses. It is clear that modern mobile applications design and development aim towards a good user experience (UX), originally formulated as the way a person feels about using a product, system or service. Objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we propose a novel mobile application that aims to improve the student and teacher communication at our department. Second, we show that by choosing the advanced interaction design tools, the graphic designer's ability to prototype and communicate with the developer significantly improves. We created a prototype using the Adobe Flash Catalyst CSS.5 that can be further refined in Adobe Flash Builder 4.5. The supported mobile operating systems are the iOS, Android and BlackBerry OS. One of the weaknesses of the current version of Flash Builder is the lack of support for the flexible way to create mobile application prototype for re-use in Flash Catalyst.