Unified Review Interface for Digital Content Revision
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Solution Overview
Problem
The current process of revising digital content based on text-based comments is cumbersome and time-consuming, as designers must repeatedly switch between design and review applications to implement changes, leading to inefficiencies and errors.
Innovation Solution
Integrating design tools into review applications, allowing designers to access and apply changes directly within the review application by analyzing text-based comments to determine the required design tools and updating the user interface to facilitate these changes without launching the design application.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the designer converts the design file into a review file format that can be viewed and commented on by the reviewer using a review application, then the reviewer can add comments to the review file, but the designer must repeatedly switch between the review application and the design application to implement changes, which is time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the design application's tools and functionalities into the review application, allowing the designer to access and use design tools directly within the review application interface. This integration eliminates the need to switch between applications, as the review application now provides both review capabilities and design modification capabilities in a unified environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The review application is enhanced to provide multiple functions: it maintains its original review and comment capabilities while also integrating design tools that allow direct modification of the digital content. This multi-functional approach enables the designer to perform both reviewing and designing tasks within a single application, reducing time loss from context switching.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the designer uses a design application to create and edit the design file, then the design file can be created and edited with full design functionalities, but the reviewer cannot open or comment on the design file without installing the design application
Solution Approach 1:
The review application serves as an intermediary that bridges the gap between the design file format (created by the design application) and the reviewer's ability to access and comment on it. The review application can open the design file without requiring the reviewer to install the design application, while still providing access to design tools through integration, thus mediating between the design creator and reviewer.
3Manufacturing precision
If the designer repeatedly switches between the review application and the design application to implement changes, then all changes can be implemented accurately, but the design process is significantly delayed
Solution Approach 1:
By merging the design application's tools into the review application, the system allows the designer to implement changes directly within the review application without switching contexts. This maintains accuracy in implementing changes while dramatically improving design process speed by eliminating repeated application switching.
Data Source
AI summary
In some embodiments, a review application accesses a review file containing a text-based comment describing a change to an object in a design file. The design file is created and editable in a design application different from the review application. The review application determines, from the text-based comment, a tool in the design application configured to implement the change to the object described in the text-based comment. The review application updates the user interface to include a user interface of the tool along with the text-based comment and receives, through the user interface of the tool, a confirmation of applying the change to the object in the design file. The review application further causes the change to the object to be applied to the design file.