Redesigning the mobile experience

The assignment given was to redesign your phone to fit your needs perfectly. Now, I have a newish Nokia Lumia 800 and I love it so I found it quite hard to think of ways in which to improve it! I really like the graphic interface - the use of nice geometric squares to organise your information.

I kept this aspect of the design but I changed the orientation of the squares to be diamonds, and I stripped down the interface a little to include only my most used features. I also added texture to the tiles to give the impression they are being indented when you touch them - a little throwback to the day when we all used buttons :) I gave access to connectivity and volume buttons from the home screen because I don't like having to go into my settings to access them.

I then changed the messaging interface; I like the possibility of having my text messages, voice mails and emails all in the same place, so that's what I did.

Finally I redesigned the sleep screen. Like many people, I use my phone as a replacement watch as well, so I placed the time and date prominently on the screen. If there are messages the user hasn't read, a notification appears on the screen. I also added weather and the moon phase, as I'm interested in astronomy and it's never any harm to know when the next full moon in :)

My initial sketches for the project are below: