Arc-Shaped Contribution Interface for Shared Goal Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user interfaces are not well suited for visualizing and tracking individual contributions of multiple users towards a shared monetary savings or investment goal, leading to confusion and difficulty in managing collaborative efforts.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an arc-shaped user interface element on user devices that visually represents individual contributions of two users, allowing for different visual presentation of each user's portion and enabling user interaction to edit and track progress towards the shared goal, with updates transmitted to remote devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional user interfaces are used to track multiple users' contributions to a shared goal, then the system is simple to implement, but the visualization becomes confusing and difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The circular progress indicator is segmented into multiple distinct arc portions, with each arc portion representing a different user's contribution. This segmentation allows clear visual differentiation of individual contributions while maintaining a unified circular structure, resolving the contradiction by providing clarity without requiring complex multi-element interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
Each arc portion within the circular indicator has distinct visual properties (different colors, patterns, or styles) that represent different users. This local differentiation enables clear tracking of individual contributions while the overall circular structure remains simple and intuitive, addressing the contradiction between information clarity and interface simplicity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple users can edit contributions simultaneously on remote devices, then collaboration is improved, but synchronization and data consistency become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time feedback to all users when contribution amounts are modified. When one user changes their contribution, the interface immediately updates to reflect the new state, and other users receive notifications or visual feedback about the change. This feedback mechanism ensures all users have consistent information, resolving the contradiction between collaborative flexibility and data consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface validates and processes contribution changes before finalizing them, ensuring that the total contribution amount remains consistent with the goal amount. This preliminary validation prevents data inconsistency from occurring in the first place, allowing multiple users to collaborate freely while maintaining reliability.
3Loss of information
If the interface displays detailed information about each user's contribution, then information completeness is improved, but the interface becomes less user-friendly and more cluttered
Solution Approach 1:
The interface uses the circular geometry to encode contribution information, where the angle or arc length of each portion represents the contribution amount. This dimensional encoding allows detailed information to be displayed in a compact, visually intuitive format that doesn't clutter the interface, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
Different colors or visual styles are assigned to different users' contribution portions within the circular indicator. This color-coding system provides clear differentiation and detailed information about each user's contribution while maintaining a simple, clean visual appearance that is easy to interpret, addressing the contradiction between detail visibility and user-friendliness.
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AI summary
In some implementations, a user device may present, on a user interface, an arc-shaped user interface element. The user device may detect a user interaction that indicates a first point on the arc-shaped user interface element. The user device may present, on the user interface, a first arc portion of the arc. The first arc portion may represent a first amount, of a total amount, to be associated with a first user account. A second arc portion may represent a second amount, of the total amount, associated with the second user account. The user device may transmit, to an account management device, information that identifies the first amount, of the total amount, to be associated with the first user account.