Personal Device UI Editor with Segmented Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern personal devices, such as diving computers, face challenges in providing customizable user interfaces without compromising security and clarity, as existing solutions often complicate access to critical data or disrupt the carefully designed 'look and feel' experience.
Innovation Solution
A multilayer graphical user interface editor system that allows users to personalize display views on devices like wristop computers, with configurable data fields, customizable color schemes, and two-way communication between devices and computers, enabling users to select and arrange parameters while maintaining essential usability and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users are allowed to freely customize the user interface display and parameter arrangement, then user personalization and ease of operation are improved, but the risk of losing critical information, compromising security, and disrupting the designed look and feel increases
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is segmented into different zones with different levels of customization permission. Critical data fields are separated from optional fields, with critical fields being protected from relocation or hiding while optional fields can be freely customized by users. This segmentation allows personalization in non-critical areas while preserving security and reliability in critical areas.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the user interface are assigned different qualities regarding customization. Critical information areas have restricted customization options to maintain clarity and security, while non-critical areas allow full customization for user personalization. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction by applying appropriate constraints only where necessary.
2Ease of operation
If users can re-arrange and filter display views to show only relevant information, then ease of operation and information filtering are improved, but access paths to critical data may become complicated or disabled
Solution Approach 1:
The system preemptively prevents users from creating access paths that would hide or complicate access to critical data. Restrictions are built into the customization system that automatically block attempts to move, hide, or complicate access to critical information fields, while allowing free customization of non-critical fields. This preliminary constraint prevents the problem before it occurs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to users during the customization process by warning or preventing actions that would compromise critical data accessibility. When users attempt to modify critical field arrangements, the system responds with alerts or automatic corrections, guiding users toward safe customization options that maintain proper access paths to critical information.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the user interface allows complete freedom for re-design, then adaptability and user preference satisfaction are improved, but the carefully designed look and feel experience is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface implements dynamic customization where the degree of freedom varies by element. Critical structural elements maintain their predetermined arrangement and appearance to preserve the designed look and feel, while non-critical elements allow dynamic repositioning and customization for user preference satisfaction. This dynamic approach allows adaptability where appropriate while maintaining stability where needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows parameter changes for non-critical interface elements (such as positioning, visibility, and display options) while maintaining fixed parameters for critical elements that define the core look and feel experience. This selective parameter modification enables user personalization without compromising the fundamental interface design and user experience.
Data Source
AI summary
This invention relates to an editor system for graphical user interfaces used in personal devices, and to a method for enabling a user to selectively display data and edit parameters on the user interface, and to a personal device, like a wristop or a diving computer. In order to edit the graphical user interface having at least one display view, where each set of data fields are arranged in a predetermined manner on the display view, the inventive editor system provides user access to a data field out of a set of data fields to allow user selection of parameters in this field. A list of parameter options valid for said field is displayed for selection by the user, the parameter value of which is to be displayed in said field.