Trend Micro Mobile Security
Trend Micro Mobile Security Personal Edition for Android stops threats before they reach you. Mobile Security has antivirus, anti-spyware, web filtering, backup, social networking privacy, and anti-theft features.
Understanding Partners, Business, and Culture
Trend Micro Mobile Security is one of the first Android apps I've worked on so being an iPhone user understanding the Android design language and guidelines was a big challenge. Designing was actually the easiest part as the product was intended for OEM (Japan primarily) partners across the sea including major mobile carriers like SoftBank and KDDI.
In charge of leading the design and overseeing the entire user flow to fit different business models, this is a project spanning across 3 different cities and designers. Most of the design and engineering work were done in Taipei (Taiwan) and Nanjing (China) with the business team in Tokyo (Japan).
With only 3 months to complete the product building off of Trend Micro Mobile Security version 1.0, this was more of a reboot than a upgrade or redesign.
Resource management and tons of business models to understand and fulfill.
With so much to understand and get done in such a short time there was a lot of help from our UX researchers on quick user studies and competitive analysis. On top of the studies, our Japanese team even helped us through the entire purchasing flow from carriers in Japan so we could experience it and understand it ourselves.
It's a whole new world with cellphones you've never seen or imagined before
The Design
There's an app and a web portal aspect to Trend Micro Mobile Security. With web portal visuals being outsourced I was tasked to lead the design direction for the Android app before passing it off to our visual designer in Nanjing. After a lot of trips and communication the visual style was eventually consolidated and unified, which would then also serve as a guide for the web portal designs.
Lead, consolidate, and refine.
The result is a collaborative global team effort with great easy-to-use experience for Trend Micro Mobile Security users.
Trend Micro Mobile Security Web Portal & Android App
Role
• Design Lead + UX / Visual Designer • Design Resource Management • Prototyper • Researcher