Floating Taskbar for Dynamic Screen Utilization
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
The existing taskbar management system on electronic devices is inefficient for managing a large number of diverse applications, leading to low screen utilization and user experience issues.
Innovation Solution
The method involves dragging application icons to the taskbar for pinning, enabling multi-window combination display, and using different display areas for various icons, along with a recent task list folder, to enhance management efficiency and user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed display area is allocated for the taskbar, then the taskbar can provide stable application management functionality, but the screen utilization efficiency decreases and the ability to manage diverse applications is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The taskbar is transformed from a fixed static component to a dynamic floating component that can move freely on the screen. The floating taskbar can be positioned at different locations and adjusted in size, allowing it to adapt to various screen layouts and application windows, thereby improving both screen utilization and application management versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The taskbar is changed from a two-dimensional fixed bar to a three-dimensional floating window that can be freely positioned and resized. This dimensional transformation allows the taskbar to occupy optimal screen space dynamically, improving screen utilization while maintaining its application management functions.
2Ease of operation
If the taskbar occupies a fixed display area, then application management can be performed, but user operation efficiency decreases when managing multiple diverse applications
Solution Approach 1:
The floating taskbar is designed to support multiple application management functions including dragging, pinning, multi-window combination display, and recent task list access. This multi-functional design allows users to manage diverse applications efficiently through a single unified interface, improving operation ease without increasing perceived complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The floating taskbar automatically adapts to user needs by providing context-aware functions. For example, it automatically displays recent task lists and provides multi-window combination options based on current application states, reducing the cognitive load on users and improving operation efficiency.
3Speed
If icons are pinned to a fixed taskbar, then quick access to applications is enabled, but the taskbar occupies excessive screen space and reduces display area for applications
Solution Approach 1:
The floating taskbar can be dynamically resized and repositioned to minimize its screen occupation while maintaining quick access functionality. Users can adjust the taskbar size and position to optimize the balance between quick application access and available display area for applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The floating taskbar concentrates application management functions in a localized floating window rather than occupying a fixed area across the entire screen. This allows quick access to applications while preserving maximum display area for application content in other regions of the screen.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the taskbar provides comprehensive application management functions, then user experience is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple application management functions including icon pinning, multi-window combination display, and recent task list management are merged into a single floating taskbar interface. This consolidation provides comprehensive functionality while maintaining a unified and relatively simple system structure, avoiding the complexity that would arise from separate components for each function.
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
AI summary
This application provides an application management method and an electronic device. A user may drag and pin an applet icon, a video play icon, an application plugin icon, or the like on an application interface to a taskbar. An icon indicating a combination display manner of a first window and a second window can also be pinned to the taskbar. When the user taps the icon, the electronic device may restore the combination display manner of the first window and the second window. The taskbar may further display a target folder indicating a recent task list, and the user may operate the target folder, so that the electronic device displays the recent task list. According to the application management method and the electronic device that are provided in this application, a method of managing an application or an application function like an applet and a quick application by the electronic device is simplified, a step of opening a plurality of windows by the electronic device is simplified, and a method of managing a recent task by the electronic device is also simplified. This helps improve application management efficiency of the electronic device and improve user experience.