Notification Center Partitioning for Collapsible Message Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices often fail to effectively manage large quantities of notification messages, leading to important messages being missed and causing user inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
Displaying notification messages in different categories within distinct display partitions and allowing for batch management through user operations such as collapsing and deleting, enhancing user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If notification messages are arranged in time sequence, then the display interface is simple, but important messages may be missed by the user
Solution Approach 1:
The notification center is segmented into multiple display partitions based on notification categories (e.g., message notifications, system notifications, app notifications). Each partition groups notifications of the same type, allowing users to quickly locate important messages while maintaining a structured and organized interface.
2Loss of information
If all notification messages are displayed individually, then complete information is provided, but the display interface becomes cluttered and troublesome
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple notification messages of the same category from different applications are merged into a single display partition. The system combines notifications with similar characteristics (e.g., all message notifications) into one grouped view, reducing visual clutter while preserving complete information through expandable details.
Solution Approach 2:
The display partition adopts a dynamic collapse/expand mechanism. By default, notifications are displayed in a collapsed state to maintain interface cleanliness. Users can expand the partition to view complete notification details when needed, allowing the interface to adapt between concise and detailed views.
3Ease of operation
If batch management operations are added, then user experience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display partition is designed with multi-functionality, supporting both individual notification viewing and batch management operations. A single interface element (the display partition) can be expanded to view details, collapsed to save space, and selected to perform batch operations such as dismissing multiple notifications at once, eliminating the need for separate controls for each function.
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AI summary
This application provides a display method and an electronic device. The method may be applied to an electronic device. The method includes: receiving a plurality of notification messages of different categories; displaying a first display interface of a notification center in response to an operation of opening the notification center, where the first display interface includes a plurality of display partitions, each of the plurality of display partitions includes a plurality of notification messages coming from different applications but belonging to a same category, and categories of notification messages included in different display partitions are different; and displaying, in a collapsed manner in response to an operation of collapsing a target display partition in the plurality of display partitions, notification messages that are of a plurality of different applications and that are included in the target display partition. According to the technical solutions, when a large quantity of notification messages are displayed in the target display partition, a user may conveniently collapse the notification messages in batches, to make the display interface of the notification center more concise.