Asymmetric User Interface Sliding for Navigation Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces lack efficient methods for navigating between user interfaces, leading to confusion and energy wastage due to inadequate contextual information and inefficient transition rates.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method where the rate of sliding a first user interface off the display differs from the rate of sliding a second user interface onto the display, providing intuitive visual cues for navigation direction, and optimizing these rates based on movement proportionality factors to enhance user experience and conserve power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the first user interface is moved off the display at the same rate that the second user interface is moved onto the display, then the transition is smooth and simple to implement, but the user loses contextual information about navigation direction and becomes confused
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies asymmetry by using different movement proportionality factors for the first and second user interfaces. Specifically, the first user interface (being replaced) is moved at a different rate than the second user interface (being introduced), creating an asymmetric transition that provides directional context to the user while maintaining implementation feasibility through controlled parameter differentiation.
2Ease of operation
If the first user interface is moved off the display at a different rate than the second user interface is moved onto the display, then the user gains intuitive visual cues about navigation direction, but the transition takes longer and wastes energy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements parameter changes by dynamically adjusting the movement proportionality factors for different user interfaces during the transition. The system modifies the speed and rate parameters of interface movement based on the specific transition context, allowing optimized energy consumption while maintaining intuitive visual feedback for the user.
3Ease of operation
If the first user interface is moved off the display at a different rate than the second user interface is moved onto the display, then the user gains intuitive visual cues about navigation direction, but the transition process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating the movement characteristics of specific user interfaces based on their roles in the transition. The first user interface (being replaced) and the second user interface (being introduced) each have locally optimized movement properties, allowing the system to provide directional context without requiring complete redesign of the entire transition mechanism.
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AI summary
An electronic device with a display displays a first user interface; detects a first input that includes a first movement. In response to detecting the first input, the device slides the first user interface off in a first direction in accordance with the first movement, where a magnitude of the sliding of the first user interface is determined based on a magnitude of the first movement and a first movement proportionality factor; and concurrently slides the second user interface on in the first direction over the first user interface in accordance with the first movement while sliding the first user interface off the display. A magnitude of the sliding of the second user interface over the first user interface is determined based on a magnitude of the first movement and a second movement proportionality factor that is different from the first movement proportionality factor.