Desktop Icon Storage Threshold Display Method
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in finding and manually cleaning storage space in mobile devices due to the hidden nature of storage cleaning buttons within deep settings interfaces, leading to inefficient terminal performance.
Innovation Solution
A method is implemented where a terminal displays an icon differently based on storage usage, changing its size or color intensity when storage space exceeds a preset threshold, allowing users to intuitively identify and clean storage space directly from the desktop.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If storage space cleaning button is placed in the setting interface, then storage cleaning function can be provided, but the button is hidden in a relatively deep level and difficult for users to find
Solution Approach 1:
The storage cleaning function is extracted from the deep setting interface and placed directly on the desktop as an independent icon. This allows users to access the storage cleaning function directly without navigating through multiple menu levels, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and interface complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The storage cleaning function is moved from the traditional hierarchical menu structure to a new dimension - the desktop icon layer. This dimensional change allows direct access to the function while maintaining the setting interface structure, thus improving ease of operation without increasing overall system complexity.
2Reliability
If storage space cleaning function is made more accessible, then users can clean storage space in time, but the traditional setting interface structure must be changed
Solution Approach 1:
The storage cleaning function is segmented as an independent icon on the desktop, separate from the main setting interface. This segmentation allows the function to be accessed independently and ensures terminal reliability by making storage cleaning timely, while the setting interface structure remains unchanged.
Solution Approach 2:
The desktop icon serves multiple functions: it displays storage status visually and provides direct access to the storage cleaning function. This multi-functionality improves terminal reliability by enabling timely storage management while avoiding the need to fundamentally change the setting interface structure.
3Loss of information
If icon display mode changes based on storage usage, then users can intuitively identify storage status, but display complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The icon displays different colors or color intensities based on storage usage levels, providing intuitive visual feedback about storage status. This color-based information encoding reduces information loss while the display control logic remains relatively simple, as it only needs to adjust color properties based on storage thresholds.
Solution Approach 2:
Storage status information is conveyed through icon size changes rather than through complex text or numerical displays. This dimensional change in information presentation makes storage status immediately visible while keeping the display control logic simple - only the icon dimensions need to be adjusted based on storage usage.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for displaying application storage space and a terminal, so as to enable a user to intuitively learn a use state of application storage space, so that the storage space can be cleaned in time to ensure normal and efficient running of a terminal. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: first displaying, by a terminal, a first icon on a desktop in first display mode; and when determining that storage space used by a first application corresponding to the first icon is greater than a preset storage threshold, displaying, by the terminal, the first icon in preset display mode that is different from the first display mode.