Grid-Based Visual Design Environment for Presentation Layout
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user interface design software is complex and requires extensive training to create professional-grade, grid-based layouts, making it difficult for non-designers to quickly and efficiently design presentations.
Innovation Solution
A user interface technology that provides a simpler design experience by using a multi-dimensional grid system for positioning content, limiting feature and function options, and offering guidance to prevent image distortion or misalignment, allowing users to easily expand or contract content areas within cells.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If traditional design software is used, then professional-grade layouts can be achieved, but the software complexity and training requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The design interface is segmented into a grid system with multiple cells, where each cell represents a discrete positioning unit. Content elements are placed within these grid cells rather than on a continuous canvas, breaking down the complex task of precise positioning into simpler, discrete decisions about which grid cell to use.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of position representation from continuous coordinates to discrete grid cell indices. This parameter transformation simplifies the positioning operation while maintaining sufficient precision for professional layouts, as elements are constrained to snap to grid boundaries rather than requiring pixel-level adjustment.
2Ease of operation
If traditional design software is used, then full control over content positioning is available, but the time required to create presentations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The grid structure is pre-established before the user begins placing content. By having the grid framework ready in advance, users don't need to spend time manually positioning elements or adjusting alignment during the design process - they simply place content within the pre-defined grid cells, significantly reducing creation time.
Solution Approach 2:
Transforming position control from continuous adjustment to discrete grid selection reduces the time required for positioning operations. Users make quicker decisions by selecting from a finite set of grid cells rather than continuously adjusting coordinates, accelerating the overall design process while maintaining professional quality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users are given full freedom to position content, then creative flexibility is maximized, but alignment and scaling issues arise
Solution Approach 1:
The canvas is segmented into a grid of cells that serve as alignment guides. Content elements are constrained to snap to these grid boundaries, ensuring consistent spacing and alignment across the presentation. This segmentation provides structural guidance that maintains professional alignment standards while users retain flexibility in choosing which grid cells to populate.
Solution Approach 2:
By changing the positioning parameter from continuous coordinates to discrete grid cell references, the system inherently enforces alignment. Elements placed in different grid cells automatically maintain consistent spacing relationships, eliminating alignment issues that would arise from free-form positioning while preserving design flexibility through the ability to choose from multiple grid cell configurations.
Data Source
AI summary
In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and computer-readable devices for presenting, by a computing system, multiple cells that are arranged in a multi-dimensional grid of cells. The computing system may display content in a first cell without displaying the content in a second cell. The computing system may present a first user interface element that is to expand the display of the content from the first cell to both the first cell and the second cell. The computing system may receive first user input that selects the first user interface element. The computing system may display, in response to receiving the first user input, the content in the first cell and the second cell.