Next-generation messaging for touch phones
AT&T was building a next-generation messaging app for its Blackcomb 2 touch phones, in two form factors: keyboardless and slider.
Specify how conversations, new messages, replies and attachments work across a portrait on-screen keypad, landscape QWERTY and a slide-out keyboard.
I designed the application map, user flows and annotated screen details in AT&T's experience specification format.
AT&T launched Next Generation Messaging, with threaded conversations, on its touch and slider messaging phones in March 2010.
From the work
8 pages from the original deliverables · select to enlarge
p. 7
Application architectureExperience specification
p. 11
Launching messaging: three entry pointsExperience specification
p. 3
Slider form factor: how screens change when the keyboard opensDesign introduction
p. 30
Add a recipient: two optionsExperience specification
p. 34
Add a phone number, with branchingExperience specification
p. 43
Quick reply flowExperience specification
p. 64
Conversations list: wireframe, touch zones and annotationsExperience specification
p. 68
Thread contents: message bubble types and rulesExperience specification
Deliverables
- Experience specification: wireframe flows and screen details (draft)72 pp
- Design introduction visuals3 pp
- Change tracking log118 rows
Full decks and specifications available on request.
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