Home Screen Editing via Simultaneous Page Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for editing home screens on electronic devices with touchscreens are complex and inefficient, making it difficult for users to move icons between pages, which decreases interaction efficiency and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method that displays two home screen pages simultaneously on a graphical user interface, allowing users to perform editing operations such as moving or deleting icons by detecting specific touch events, including touch-and-hold and flick gestures, and providing visual cues for guiding the user through the editing process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a user performs touch-and-hold operation and drags icon across boundary between screens to move icon, then the icon can be moved to another screen, but the operation steps become complicated and interaction efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple home screen pages into a single continuous editing interface. Instead of requiring users to navigate between separate screens through complex drag-and-drop operations across boundaries, the system presents all pages simultaneously in one unified view, allowing direct manipulation of icons across what were previously separate screens without boundary constraints
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the traditional sequential page navigation into a multi-dimensional simultaneous display. Multiple home screen pages that were previously accessed one at a time are now displayed together in a single interface, adding a spatial dimension to the editing experience where users can directly interact with icons across multiple pages without sequential navigation
2Productivity
If multiple home screen pages are displayed simultaneously for editing, then processing efficiency and interaction efficiency improve, but the graphical user interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display area into multiple regions, with each region dedicated to displaying a specific home screen page. This segmentation allows multiple pages to be simultaneously visible and editable while maintaining clear visual boundaries and organizational structure, preventing the interface from becoming overwhelming despite displaying multiple pages at once
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal editing interface that can display and edit any number of home screen pages using the same interaction paradigm. The interface is designed to handle multiple pages simultaneously with consistent editing operations, eliminating the need for different interaction modes for different page configurations and simplifying the overall system complexity
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AI summary
A home screen editing method is disclosed. The method may be implemented in an electronic device with a touchscreen. The method includes: detecting, by the electronic device, input of a user (S1001); in response to the input, displaying a first page of a home screen and a first home screen indicator in a first region of the touchscreen, and displaying a second page of the home screen and a second home screen indicator in a second region of the touchscreen (S1002), where the first home screen indicator is used to indicate a position of the first page on the home screen, and the second home screen indicator is used to indicate a position of the second page on the home screen; detecting, by the electronic device, a first touch event (S 1003), where the first touch event is a gesture specific to a first application icon on the first page; and moving, by the electronic device in response to the first touch event, the first application icon to the second page, and arranging the first application icon on the second page (SI004). This method improves efficiency of the electronic device, reduces user operations, and also improves user experience.