Edge Swipe Search Interface for Faster Mobile Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for searching and accessing content and applications on portable electronic devices, such as smartphones, are inefficient, cumbersome, and cognitively burdensome, leading to prolonged user interaction and increased energy consumption.
Innovation Solution
Electronic devices implement touch-sensitive surfaces to detect specific swipe gestures on edges, transitioning between user interfaces like home screens, notification centers, and search interfaces, allowing for intuitive navigation without additional inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional search methods are used on portable devices, then users can access content and applications, but the process is inefficient and cumbersome requiring multiple steps and inputs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a persistent search bar that remains visible at the top of the screen during user interactions. This preliminary action allows users to immediately search for content and applications without navigating through multiple menus or screens, eliminating the need for multiple steps and inputs while significantly improving search efficiency and reducing cognitive burden.
2Ease of operation
If multiple touch inputs are required for searching, then comprehensive content access is achieved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The persistent search bar is pre-displayed and always accessible, eliminating the need for users to perform multiple navigation actions to access search functionality. This reduces the number of touch inputs required while maintaining comprehensive content accessibility, thereby conserving battery power on portable devices.
3Ease of operation
If conventional navigation methods are used, then users can locate desired content, but cognitive burden increases due to multiple steps required
Solution Approach 1:
The search bar is persistently displayed at the top of the screen and remains accessible throughout user interactions. This preliminary setup allows users to directly search for and locate desired content and applications without navigating through multiple screens or menus, significantly reducing cognitive burden while maintaining full content location capability.
Data Source
AI summary
A device detects, while displaying a first user interface, a touch gesture. In accordance with a determination that the touch gesture meets first criteria including a first requirement that is met in accordance with a determination that the touch gesture includes first movement of a contact across a first portion of an edge of the touch-sensitive surface in a first direction, the device replaces at least a portion of the first user interface with a search user interface. In accordance with a determination that the touch gesture meets second criteria including a second requirement that is met in accordance with a determination that the touch gesture includes second movement of the contact across a second portion of the edge of the touch-sensitive surface in the first direction, the device replaces at least a portion of the first user interface with a plurality of previously received notifications.