Poor Mobile Phone Interface

The design that is in question is a mobile phone interface. Like many people, this reviewer uses their cell phone as a clock to tell the time. When you need to figure out the time, you simply look at the screen of your phone. In the case of this phone however, you must unlock the phone before the time is displayed. This inconvenience, while minor, takes away from the experience of performing a simple task such as checking the time. A simple fix to this problem would be to modify the GUI design of the phone so that the time is displayed even in locked mode.

I, like the reviewer, also use my cellphone to tell the time and it has replaced wearing a wrist watch. While it really isn't hard to unlock the phone, I agree that it does make a simple task much harder and I think that this would also bother me. This is not a very hard design aspect to incorporate and the GUI designer should have thought of this. The user suggests making the message box smaller to prevent the time from being blocked. Another suggestion would be to incorporate the time into the lock screen itself which is how it works on my current phone.

References

1.http://www.baddesigns.com/cellphone-lock.html