Hardware Classes

From MobileDesign

While many current products, and many of the design patterns published here, assume a certain advanced mobile device. Many other designs make no assumption about the physical nature of the device, thereby missing a whole facet of user interaction.

While the User Interface Classes section deals mostly with input methods, this section is mostly concerned with general device layout and output mechanisms.

• Environmental input devices
  • Gesture & position relative to the user, not 'location'
  • Location geographically
  • Haptic feedback
  • Sensors (motion, temperature, light/dark etc)

• Keyboards & keypads Category:Keyboards & keypads
  • One-handed entry 10-key/12-key, and similar
  • Two-handed entry Thumb-boards
  • Two hands and a surface

• Device formats
  • Candybar
  • Clamshell
  • Slider
  • Two-sided
  • Other styles not common enough for their own category

• Display devices
  • Technology & color depth
    • E-Ink
    • B&W or Grayscale
    • Color
  • Screen size
    • 1 or 2 line
    • Extra-small
    • Small
    • Medium
    • Large
  • Aspect ratio
    • Portrait
    • Landscape
    • Rotatable (between landscape and portrait)
  • Secondary screens, such as external screen on flipphones, two-sided devices or two-piece devices