Lock Screen Application List Segmentation for Mobile Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile terminals require users to unlock and navigate to a main interface to access recently used applications, resulting in a poor user experience due to increased operational time and complexity.
Innovation Solution
A method and mobile terminal design that displays a recently used application list on the lock screen, allowing users to select and open applications directly from the lock screen by touching a specific area, with options displayed in a rotatable manner, and requiring password input if necessary, without increasing hardware or memory costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users unlock the terminal and navigate to the main interface to access recently used applications, then security is maintained through password verification, but operational time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The lock screen interface is segmented into multiple interaction zones: a first area for password input and a second area for application selection. This segmentation allows different operations (security verification and application access) to occur in separate regions, enabling application launch without full unlocking while maintaining security boundaries.
Solution Approach 2:
The recently used application list is pre-displayed in the second area of the lock screen before password verification is complete. This preliminary action allows users to see and select applications in advance, reducing the operational steps required after unlocking and thereby reducing total operational time.
2Ease of operation
If the recently used application list is displayed on the main interface, then application access is organized, but the user must unlock first which reduces ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The application list is displayed in a second area that is spatially distinct from the first area where password input occurs. This dimensional separation on the lock screen allows application access functionality to be added without interfering with the existing password input flow, maintaining interface simplicity while enhancing ease of operation.
3Ease of operation
If application icons are displayed in a rotatable manner on the lock screen, then user interaction becomes more intuitive, but display area requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Application icons are arranged in a circular or arcuate pattern in the second area of the lock screen, allowing rotational interaction. This curved/spheroidal arrangement maximizes the use of available display space around the central password input area, enabling intuitive rotational selection without requiring excessive linear display area.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure discloses a method and a mobile terminal for quickly opening an application based on a lock screen. The method includes: displaying a touch position on an area of a lock screen interface when a mobile terminal enters the lock screen; displaying a recently used application list after the touch position is detected to have been touched; and opening an application corresponding to an application icon of the application list after the application icon is selected.