System-Level UI Transition Management for Visual Continuity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user interfaces fail to maintain visual continuity and consistency when transitioning between views, leading to user disorientation and reduced productivity due to the lack of system-level management of user interface transitions.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that manage user interface transitions at a system level, grouping visual elements and applying a system-defined transition style that includes curves, sequences, and controls to smoothly move elements between views, allowing for visual continuity and consistency across applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If conventional user interfaces replace one view with another during transitions, then the interface can switch between different views, but visual continuity is lost and user disorientation occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by identifying and preserving visual elements before the view transition occurs. Common visual elements are detected in advance and marked for retention, allowing them to be maintained during the transition process rather than being completely removed and redrawn, thus preserving visual continuity while enabling view switching.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates copies of common visual elements that appear in both the current and target views. These copied elements are retained and reused during the transition, allowing visual continuity to be maintained. Instead of completely removing and recreating elements, the system copies and preserves the overlapping visual elements across view transitions.
2Loss of information
If applications use multimedia authoring software to redesign interfaces for continuity, then visual continuity can be maintained within individual applications, but visual consistency is lost across different applications due to hard-coded transitions
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal transition management mechanism that operates across all applications. By managing transitions at the system level rather than within individual applications, the same transition rules and visual element preservation logic are applied universally, ensuring both visual continuity within applications and visual consistency across different applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary transition management layer between the application logic and the actual view rendering. This intermediary system handles the detection of common visual elements, determines retention decisions, and manages the transition process, allowing applications to maintain their functionality while ensuring consistent and continuous visual transitions across the entire system.
3Loss of information
If the system retains and reuses common visual elements during transitions, then visual continuity is maintained, but the system complexity increases due to element grouping and transition style management
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments visual elements into distinct categories: elements to be removed, elements to be retained, and elements to be added. This segmentation allows the transition management system to handle each category independently with specific rules, simplifying the overall complexity by breaking down the transition process into manageable segments rather than treating all elements uniformly.
Solution Approach 2:
The system manages complexity by parameterizing transition styles with configurable properties such as curve types, sequences, and controls. Instead of hard-coding complex transition behaviors, the system uses parameter changes to define transition characteristics, allowing for flexible and consistent transition management across different applications while keeping the underlying system structure relatively simple.
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AI summary
A disclosed system (and method) is configured to receive an instruction to transition from a first view to a second view. The first view and the second view include two or more visual elements. The system receives data corresponding to visual elements in the first view and visual elements in the second view. The system groups the visual elements to include visual elements moved out between the first view and the second view, visual elements retained from the first view in the second view, and visual elements moved into the second view. The system retrieves a system defined transition style for rendering the visual elements between the first view and the second view. Using the groupings the system transitions the first view to render the second view through application of the transition style on the groups of visual elements.