Mobile Mini Interface

Below are some screenshots for the Downloads section of the Mobile Mini application.


MAIN MENU
The main menu for the application includes RSS News, Downloads and Uploads.

In keeping with the Mini brand and also taking small screen design issues to mind, I have kept the visual design to a minimum using white text on black background and a blue border to highlight the selected menu option. The mobile Mini logo also appears at the top of the main menu.

Users navigate the menu by using the up/down arrows or joystick and select using the two soft keys.




DOWNLOADS
The sub-menu for Downloads allows the user to browse multimedia from the Mobile Mini service. The content is divided into Wallpapers, Videos and Games.

I have kept the layout as a text based list.










WALLPAPERS
The Wallpaper menu uses the same list layout but includes thumbnail images of mobile phone wallpapers for users to download.

Mobile Mini Service

The website for the Mobile Mini Service will be www.mobile-mini.co.uk.

The mobile phone application will be used as an upload and download service. A user with the application installed will have Mobile Mini as an option when sending multimedia messages. The application will be installed on the phone in the Applications folder.

Mobile Mini logo:

The menu structure of the application will look something like this:

MAIN MENU
RSS News

Downloads
-Wallpapers
-Videos
-Games

Uploads
-Pictures
-Videos
-Mini iMix
-My Uploads

Mini Brand

In order to design the prototype for the Mobile Mini application, I have looked at the graphics and visuals of the Mini brand.

Apart from its car showrooms, the largest advertising space for Mini to promote their brand is their website www.mini.co.uk. The style of the site is very simple and stylish, the visual design of the website uses predominantly black with white text, with only slight colour being seen in the borders that highlight headings and images. This look of slick yet simple graphics is seen in their print adverts and also TV adverts.

iPhone

iPhone combines three products - a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching - into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

-Official site www.apple.com/iphone