Abstract: The aged tendency of population has become a hot social issue because of nowadays’ continual increasing of the elderly’ number and proportion, which resulting in the demand of a design method of intellectualized mobile phones for the elderly in order to improve their life qualities and perfect their living conditions. This paper, based on the analysis of characteristics of the aged users and their usage of smart phones as well as nowadays’ technology of cellphone manufacturing and software designing, summarizes six influential key factors concerning the availability of the elderly’ mobile phones, furthermore proposes a new design method, D-Checklist for the elderly’ mobile phones corresponding the main design points for each factor. The new method, by evaluating, can effectively improve the usability of mobile phones developed by it.

Key words: the elderly, mobile phone, usability, user-centered design, checklist

摘要： 老年人的数量和比例不断增加，设计适合老年人使用的手机以提高老年人的生活质量、改善老年人的生活状态具有重要的社会意义和经济意义。通过对使用上下文，即老年人用户的特点、老年人使用手机的特点及现有手机制造和软件设计技术的分析，找出影响老年人手机可用性的六个核心要素，针对每个要素提出相对应的设计要点，并以此为基础提出一种新的老年人手机设计方法：D-Checklist法。通过评估说明此方法可以有效提高所开发的老年人手机的可用性。

关键词: 老年人, 智能手机, 可用性, 用户为中心的设计, 核查表