Chinese Mobile UX/UI Resources

[Alex Jones]

Howdy everyone, while I am very familiar with UX best practices for the West, I'm now doing a deep dive into the same UX and UI best practices for Chinese mobile apps. I understand some of the broad strokes, but would like to find authoritative resources. 

So, do you know of any recommendations that you can send my way, beyond the standard Google results? Bonus points if the site is in English, but if you know of a great resource that's only available in Chinese, I would love to hear about it as well.

Thanks,

Alex

[Brandtley McMinn]

I'm not overly aware of any specific UX/UI design resources regarding Eastern communications, but something I am aware of from one of my professors is that they're not overly concerned with aesthetics. Not to say good design isn't considered, but their main focus is the flow/volume of information being presented, which is why you get a bunch of modern day chinese websites looking similar to the old geocities websites.

I'll be sure to keep an eye out for resources and post back here, but hope this helps a bit.

Good luck Alex,
- Brandtley

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[Warren Chu]

Any apparent lack of aesthetics in regards to Eastern communications is most likely not due to lack of concern considering the importance of aesthetics to Eastern culture on a whole.

I suspect the choice to focus on "flow/volume of information being presented" is the same reason Google and Yahoo! generally lack of "aesthetics" on their sites as well, it isn't important enough to spend resources on in relations to the product they're "selling".

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[Jeff]

I have found this article (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/15/showcase-of-web-design-in-china-from-imitation-to-innovation-and-user-centered-design/) on web design.  I personally don't feel that there is an UX/UI gap between the east and west.  I have a few chinese apps on my ipad, and their aesthetics and functions are on par to the west apps.  Here are the chinese apps I have: sohu hd (video entertainment), chinese chess hd (game), oxradio (music streaming).

 

I do notice the chinese sites, or games, tend to include more colorful, "cute", anime-ish avatars.

 

-Jeff

[Caroling]

Hey Alex:

I recall doing some of my own research into this a few years ago and I
recall that there is actually a UX Professionals network in China that
deals with this topic specifically. It's probably still in its
infancy, but I'm sure that's a good place to start.

Hope this helps.
Caroling

On Oct 5, 12:58 pm, Jeff <unbrandedbut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have found this article (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/15/showcase-of-web-design-in-...) on web design. I personally don't feel that there is an UX/UI gap between the east and west. I have a few chinese apps on my ipad, and their aesthetics and functions are on par to the west apps. Here are the chinese apps I have: sohu hd (video entertainment), chinese chess hd (game), oxradio (music streaming).

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> I do notice the chinese sites, or games, tend to include more colorful, "cute", anime-ish avatars.
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> -Jeff
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> Warren Chu <Warren.S....@gmail.com> 於 Oct 5, 2011 12:20 PM 寫道：
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> > Any apparent lack of aesthetics in regards to Eastern communications is most likely not due to lack of concern considering the importance of aesthetics to Eastern culture on a whole.
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> > I suspect the choice to focus on "flow/volume of information being presented" is the same reason Google and Yahoo! generally lack of "aesthetics" on their sites as well, it isn't important enough to spend resources on in relations to the product they're "selling".
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> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Brandtley McMinn <bmcminn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm not overly aware of any specific UX/UI design resources regarding Eastern communications, but something I am aware of from one of my professors is that they're not overly concerned with aesthetics. Not to say good design isn't considered, but their main focus is the flow/volume of information being presented, which is why you get a bunch of modern day chinese websites looking similar to the old geocities websites.
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> > I'll be sure to keep an eye out for resources and post back here, but hope this helps a bit.
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> > Good luck Alex,
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> > On 10/5/2011 10:25 AM, Alex Jones wrote:
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> >> Howdy everyone, while I am very familiar with UX best practices for the West, I'm now doing a deep dive into the same UX and UI best practices for Chinese mobile apps. I understand some of the broad strokes, but would like to find authoritative resources.
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> >> So, do you know of any recommendations that you can send my way, beyond the standard Google results? Bonus points if the site is in English, but if you know of a great resource that's only available in Chinese, I would love to hear about it as well.
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> >> Thanks,
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[Alex Jones]

Thanks for all of the leads everyone, this is a helpful start! I'll post information as I learn more.

Cheers,

Alex Jones

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[Marc Blase]

To affirm Warren's point, it's for another more practical reason:

Unlike Latin and Germanic languages, Chinese is rooted in hieroglyphic characters. Typing in Chinese on an alphabet-based keyboard can be slow, especially for middle-aged and older users. So, you will see that some website user interfaces are extremely busy: text and image links everywhere ... websites are designed for clicking, as opposed to searching.

From this article: http://bit.ly/n0LmlI

-Marc