Design
Behind the new Nokia homescreen – video update
By Mike on 14 July 2009
LONDON, England – Last month we had a look behind the new Nokia homescreen, and spoke to the Nokia designers on the frontline of innovating this aspect of our devices. That story struck a chord with many of you, with heaps of great comments flooding in, so we thought we’d follow up with this new video that sees designers Juliana Ferreira and Lee Cooper explain how Nokia went about designing the new homescreen as seen on the N97 and the methods and prototypes they used in their research. Click through to watch the full video behind the new Nokia homescreen.
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Tags | homescreen, N97, nokia n97, nseries, prototype, research
July 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
One thing that is beyond my mind – Why is the Contact Bar not on the N97 homescreen?? This was a brilliant idea on the 5800.
Unfortunately it was not possible to have both the Contact Bar AND the calender on the homescreen. I NEED to have my calender on my homescreen.
I had hoped that I could get the best of both, on the N97 – It IS supposed to be the better handset compared to the 5800, right…?
I cross my fingers that Nokia will implement it in future firmware, but I doubt it, I can’t see the reason why it’s not here now, others that it is not supposed to be on the N97.
I don’t know how I can tell Nokia what a brilliant idea this was, on the 5800, and that we NEED that on the N97 to! :’-(
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N97Fan Reply:
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 am
@salbaek68, you can have your calendar and Contacts on the hone screen. I certainly do.
Options Edit Content. Take something off if you don’t have room and then replace it with the calendar.
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salbaek68 Reply:
July 24th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
@N97Fan, Yes, it was on the 5800 that it wasn’t possible.
But on the N97, the contact widget is only shortcuts to the contacts, where in 5800, when you choosed a contact, it expanded over the homescreen, with a call- and sms-log.
Why is that missing on the flagship N97??
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July 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 am
The homescreen is actually a very powerful asset for Nokia, people generally like it, it’s kind of proper and human-friendly. This whole “build your own homescreen” could be used more in marketing. Nokia should try and own the homescreen concept and put it everywhere they can.
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salbaek68 Reply:
July 24th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@msav, Yes, it’s a great idea, that Microsoft have had for many years, in Windows Mobile. But Nokia is on the right track.
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msav Reply:
July 27th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
@salbaek68, yeah… of course the world is full of homescreens, but they can always say it’s the Nokia homescreen
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July 29th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
But your main problem is that you don’t make people to intrested about those features. Most of people don’t even know how to use their mobile phones features.
Make it easy.
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October 6th, 2009 at 3:19 am
better use of display area,
1st- improve top marquee, getting usual icons (battery, signal, brand) smaller and better distribution-2.5-5 %
2nd improve(reduce -squared) selection buttons, and using symbols instead off words (keeping style that way), auto rotation-use same buttons
12.5% for other information in displaying area. that way we the users can get almost 10% of free displaying area.
improve touch typing reducing touchable keys zones, less chances to fail on typing- really 5800 is bad in full keyboard mode
4th there area a understandable issue but could be better, Icons menus had 2 information per button the Icon and the describing text, its no
needed double information, once the user gets familiarity with the device.( more free displaying area).
reducing all the double or excess in information, or getting icons who works identically horizontal and vertical display leaves more memory.
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