Tab-Based Media Catalog Navigation Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in quickly and easily accessing media content from large catalogues due to the need to navigate through multiple menus and screens.
Innovation Solution
A user interface that presents media content through customizable tabs, with media content items displayed in scrollable rows and columns, offering minimized or detailed information based on selection, allowing for efficient navigation and discovery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If users navigate through generalized home pages and genre pages to find media content, then comprehensive media catalogues can be organized and displayed, but the navigation time and number of screens required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The media catalogue is segmented into multiple tabs, each representing a different screen or category of media content. Users can switch between tabs to access different sections without navigating through multiple menus or screens, thereby reducing navigation time while maintaining comprehensive catalogue organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional hierarchical navigation (home page → genre pages → content) to a tab-based dimensional organization where multiple media categories are presented simultaneously in a horizontal dimension. This allows users to access different media types directly without sequential navigation through multiple screens.
2Loss of information
If detailed information is displayed for all media content items simultaneously, then users have complete information for decision-making, but the interface complexity and information overload increase
Solution Approach 1:
Different media content items display different levels of information detail based on their state. Minimized items show basic information, while selected or intermediate items display detailed information. This local differentiation allows complete information availability without uniform interface complexity across all elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The information display level for each media content item is dynamic rather than static. Items can transition between minimized and detailed states based on user interaction, allowing the interface to adapt information density to user needs without overwhelming the user with all details simultaneously.
3Ease of operation
If minimal information is displayed for media content items, then the interface remains clean and simple, but users lack sufficient information for making informed selections
Solution Approach 1:
The interface maintains simplicity through minimized information display for most items while dynamically providing detailed information when users interact with specific items. This dynamic information revelation preserves interface cleanliness while ensuring information availability when needed for decision-making.
Solution Approach 2:
Intermediate content information is prepared and available for items that users may select, allowing the system to present detailed information on demand without cluttering the initial view. This preliminary preparation of information ensures it's ready when needed without compromising initial interface simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method including presenting one or more tabs on a display of a device corresponding to media content screens, presenting one or more media content items in a media content screen upon selection of a corresponding one of the one or more tabs, the one or more media content items being presented in at least one of scrollable rows and columns, including minimized content information with some of the media content items and including intermediate content information with other media content items and changing at least the intermediate content information to detailed content information corresponding to a selected one of the content items.