Home Screen Layout by App Category for Easier Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices lack efficient methods for dynamically arranging and displaying applications and images on a home screen based on user input, limiting customization and user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device is equipped with a processor and memory that execute instructions to identify a target page area, determine applications, and display icons and images based on user input, allowing for dynamic arrangement and customization of the home screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If applications are manually arranged on the home screen, then user customization is achieved, but operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically arranges application icons on the home screen based on user-defined criteria such as category, frequency of use, or priority settings. The home screen manager autonomously performs the arrangement task without requiring manual user intervention for each icon placement, thereby maintaining customization while reducing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The home screen arrangement is made dynamic and adaptable to user preferences rather than static. The system can automatically adjust icon positions, groupings, and layouts based on changing user behaviors, usage patterns, or selected criteria, allowing the home screen to evolve without manual reconfiguration.
2Productivity
If multiple applications are displayed on the home screen, then user access to applications is improved, but screen space management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The home screen is divided into multiple grids or sections that can independently manage application icons. Each grid can be configured to display a specific number of icons or represent different application categories, allowing efficient use of screen space while maintaining organized access to multiple applications without overwhelming complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes multi-dimensional arrangement of icons beyond simple linear ordering. Applications are organized through hierarchical structures, grouping, and spatial distribution across multiple screens or pages, enabling display of numerous applications while maintaining manageable complexity through structured organization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the home screen layout is fixed, then device simplicity is maintained, but user customization capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides pre-configured templates and default arrangements that are prepared in advance. Users can select from predefined layouts or have the system automatically generate arrangements based on their preferences, avoiding the need to create layouts from scratch and reducing the perceived complexity while enabling customization.
Solution Approach 2:
The home screen manager serves multiple functions including automatic arrangement, manual configuration, template application, and adaptive reconfiguration. This multi-functional approach enables extensive customization capabilities while maintaining a unified, user-friendly interface that does not significantly increase perceived device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device identifies a first area of a target page of a home screen based on a first user input, determines a plurality of applications having icons corresponding to the plurality of applications to be displayed in the first area of the target page of the home screen based on a second user input, obtains an image generated based on first information associated with the first area and second information associated with the plurality of applications, and displays the target page on a display by displaying the icons corresponding to the plurality of applications in the first area and the image in at least a portion of a second area distinct from the first area.