Introduction
How to use this document
Purpose Ultimately this document will act as a guide for both Nokia services and 3rd parties who wish to design an application for MeeGo devices. This document is written primarily for interaction and visual designers. Visual design guidelines may be added on a future version, or may also be a companion document.
This is not a Specification Document This is not meant to replace detailed technical specifications. Instead, it is meant to represent a description of the overall interaction model for MeeGo in an at-a-glance fashion. It is the expectation that technical specifications will be available as a companion to this document, including a detailed description of each available tool and a recommendation of when to use it.
Introducing MeeGo
MeeGo has been designed for the new mobile world, where people are at the center of fast flowing streams of information, where they expect to tailor their device with a myriad of applications and where new economies are evolving around those applications.
These guidelines have been written to help you design and develop applications for the new mobile world.
MeeGo is a direct touch UI, meaning that users manipulate objects, such as a thumbnail of an image, directly through touch interactions. Content is surfaced and navigation hierarchies should be shallow and accessed through simple navigation systems. In addition to direct touch, MeeGo is optimized for multi-tasking usage and provides a rich platform integrated Applications.
The MeeGo interface is scalable for different screen sizes, resolutions, and aspect ratios and it supports both portrait and landscape orientations.
What Makes MeeGo Great?
Multi-tasking People’s daily lives are complex and busy. We tend to do a lot of things at once and often the things we want to do on our mobile devices – making an appointment over the phone, sending a link to a friend, finding a listing on the map - involve two or more of its applications. The heart of the MeeGo UI is the switcher, which allows people to quickly move around the applications they need to get something done.
Connected, vibrant and alive MeeGo is designed to be connected to the web all the time. MeeGo’s applications should feel ‘alive’ with activity, making the mobile device a true life hub. This empowers people and makes them feel connected.
Personal and expandable MeeGo provides users the ability to make the device their own by adding applications, extending applications, and by easily arranging quick access to favorite applications. Personal touches can be added through content and social feeds, profile customization, and standard features, such as ringtones and wallpaper.
Comes with Ovi Understanding that a mobile device is so much more than calls and text messages is key to MeeGo’s value. Ovi services and applications feel like part of the device because they are integrated with core components like search and sharing through integration with each other, allowing people to flow across several applications and services to do what they need to do. The Ovi store helps people discover and expand their device, offering a large range of applications and extensions.
Design Principles
Direct Objects are manipulated directly with your finger. Never hide object-related functions away from the main object. Hiding related functions/actions in menus should be avoided. All actions should take place near the object itself. Touch is an analog control (well, almost).
Responsive Direct UI must give immediate feedback to the user’s actions. When scrolling or panning, the moved objects need to follow user’s finger without a noticeable lag. Visual, audio, and haptic feedback must feel that they are in perfect synch. The multimedia playback has high resolution and frame rate that gives a feeling of performance.
Simply beautiful The UI must please all senses. Visual, aural, and haptic feedback must be beautiful, yet simple. Visual and aural (and haptic) metaphors and effects must be consistent. Decoration should have meaning, for example show what can be touched. The UI is alive, for example showing subtle animations.
True Human Design The key attributes of MeeGo's design vision are: human, simple, and friendly. MeeGo prioritizes people over any other content.
Getting the basics right People still need to meet the demands of every day life, calling their mom, remembering the milk, and messaging a colleague from the bus stop. MeeGo should make these things a joy and never let its power get in the way.
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