Design Pattern Change Study (200 words summary of team design study)
Our team members:
Team topic: Hardware for the mobile phone market
Collection:
- Consumer magazines (mobile phone market is multi-$B industry)
- Importantly, create own survey to canvass mobile phone users
- Industry sales product histories
Decompile:
- Rating results
- Features: screen size, external storage, video, camera, processors, input modalities, networks
Extract:
- Primary mobile phone uses: voice, text, video, camera, e-mail?, calendaring apps, etc.
- U/I preferences
Statistics:
- Available features on a per device (or device class) basis
- Most popular features, most popular uses
Differences:
- What has changed?
- What hardware capabilities can be anticipated to be needed/desired in the future?
- What new software capabilities may result from new hardware in the future?