Animated Visual Cues for Chat Content Previews
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user interface designs lack context about available content, leading to inefficiencies and resource waste as users navigate through multiple pages for updates, and traditional notifications are often intrusive and disabled due to their inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
The system generates animated visual cues and previews that indicate the availability of associated content, providing a hierarchical UI structure with animated motions and visual bounce cues to reveal updates without interrupting the primary content view.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional text notifications are used to indicate content availability, then users are notified of updates, but the notifications are intrusive and interrupt workflow
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional text notifications to animated visual cues that operate in the visual dimension of the user interface. The animated multi-dot element provides contextual information about content availability through visual animation rather than text, allowing users to perceive updates without textual interruption to their workflow.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs color changes and visual animations to convey information about content availability. The animated multi-dot element uses visual properties such as color, position, and motion to indicate the status of associated content, replacing intrusive text notifications with visually engaging but non-intrusive cues.
2Loss of information
If users navigate through multiple pages to check content status, then they can view updates, but computing resources are consumed and time is wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by displaying animated visual cues on the current page that indicate content availability before users need to navigate to view the content. The animated multi-dot element provides advance information about updates, allowing users to make informed decisions about whether to navigate to view content without wasting time checking empty pages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary visual cue system between the content pages and the user. The animated multi-dot element acts as a mediator that conveys information about content availability on other pages without requiring users to navigate to those pages, reducing time loss while maintaining information access.
3Ease of operation
If multi-dot graphical elements are used to indicate page availability, then navigation guidance is provided, but no context is given about the available content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making the visual cue characteristics specific to the content they represent. Different animated multi-dot patterns, colors, or positions can indicate different types of content or update statuses, providing both navigation guidance and content context through localized visual differentiation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamics to the static multi-dot element through animation. The animated characteristics such as motion, timing, and visual transitions provide contextual information about content availability and updates, enabling users to understand not just that content is available but what kind of content it is.
Data Source
AI summary
A system that generates animated visual cues for providing previews that indicate the availability of associated content is provided. The system can display a landing page in response to a command to display selected content, such as messages of a chat session. The landing page generates a visual cue that displays an animated preview of associated content, such as files related to the chat session, concurrently with the selected content before transitioning to view that shows the selected content, such as a chat session UI. The disclosed techniques also enable systems to generate a visual bounce cue providing awareness of salient content. For example, a device displaying selected content, e.g., messages in a chat session UI, may create a controlled animated movement of the chat session UI to let a user know of an update to associated content that may be displayed in a UI layer under the selected content.