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S60 user experience

The leading mobile user interface platform

S60 carefully listens to its users to help understand their needs and discover why they behave the way they do. This insight has helped our designers to steadily evolve the S60 user experience over many years.


Here are three key principles that guide the design of the S60 User Interface (UI):

  • User enjoyment is an important part of the experience. The UI needs to be fun without ever compromising its usability. UI transition animations are a great example of how this can be achieved.
  • Smart simplicity simplicity is addressed in all design iterations by making functions as simple and smart as possible. Many usability tests are conducted around the world with different cultures and languages to ensure this objective is being achieved. Enhanced multitasking and Common composer are recent designs from S60 3rd Edition FP2.
  • Expandable experiences. The S60 platform also gives users the power to decide what kind of functions they want in their S60 device, as well as how it looks and feels. The most familiar examples are the S60 graphical themes and downloadable applications.

It’s essential that the S60 UI retains its familiarity while at the same time providing innovative new experiences and capabilities that users will love. S60 already offers different product designs and screens, various input methods and, of course, exciting and smart applications and functions. Touch and sensors take this innovation to a new level.

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