Dynamic User Feedback Display Transition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in efficiently viewing user feedback for electronic content, such as 'likes' for a news article, as existing systems often display graphic icons rather than the actual feedback, making it cumbersome to access and understand.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that transition from displaying graphic icons of users who provided feedback to displaying the corresponding user feedback in response to touch gestures or other triggers, allowing users to easily view feedback within the same display regions, enhancing user interaction and satisfaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If graphic icons of users are displayed to represent user feedback, then the interface remains simple and compact, but users cannot efficiently view the actual feedback content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of viewing feedbackVSAvoidfeedback content visibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The display dynamically transitions between showing graphic icons and showing actual feedback content based on user interaction. When a user selects a graphic icon, the system transforms the display to show the corresponding feedback text, enabling efficient viewing of feedback content while maintaining interface simplicity when feedback is not being viewed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system utilizes the temporal dimension by transitioning from a static icon display to a dynamic display that reveals feedback content upon user selection. This dimensional transition allows the interface to provide both compact representation and detailed information viewing without requiring additional spatial resources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Productivity

If users must navigate through multiple interfaces to view feedback, then the interface structure remains organized, but user efficiency and satisfaction decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback viewing efficiencyVSAvoidinterface navigation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges the feedback viewing function directly into the existing graphic icon display interface. By allowing users to view feedback content within the same interface where the icons are displayed, the system eliminates the need for separate navigation to different screens or interfaces, thereby improving efficiency without adding significant complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The graphic icon serves as an intermediary element that links the compact display mode to the detailed feedback content. When users interact with the icon, it mediates the transition to showing the actual feedback, providing a smooth bridge between the simple interface and the detailed information without requiring complex navigation structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10630792B2Methods and systems for viewing user feedback
Publication Date: 2020.04.21 MAPLEBEAR INC
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AI summary

In a client device having one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors, graphic icons of one or more users who have provided user feedback for a first content item are displayed. The client device transitions from displaying one or more of the graphic icons to displaying user feedback for the first content item provided by respective users.