CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SMART MOBILE INTEGRATED SOLUTION DESIGN PROCESS

Abstract

The smart mobile integrated solution design process has been explored and maturing in diverse projects worldwide in both traditional manufacturers and service companies for the past ten years. This paper proposed a pre-study of eight smart mobile integrated solution design process models based on case studies of smart phone and tablet by in-depth interviews of product managers about the design events and process flow from the beginning of the project, through ID, hardware, UI and software design and development, to production and release. A general design process model of four stages was constructed based on key design decision meeting and three general design process categories were created based on product plan type and decision maker: Independent research and design process, carrier biding oriented and carrier proposal oriented design process. Different design events in the divided four stages among the three categories were compared and described. Finally, a further study of the independent research and design process was carried out to construct sub-categories of design process models: product oriented and service oriented smart mobile integrated solution design process.