Window Design Coordination in Information Processing Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Information processing devices struggle to display windows with consistent designs, leading to poor user understanding due to unpredictable additional applications and lack of design coordination between standard and additional application windows.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device with a controller that executes standard and additional applications, where the standard application displays a first window with high priority and the additional application displays a second window with a design determined by acquired display information, ensuring consistent design based on device and design information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If additional applications are allowed to extend basic functions, then functionality and versatility are improved, but design consistency and user understanding deteriorate due to unpredictable window designs
Solution Approach 1:
The standard application acts as an intermediary between the additional application and the display system. It receives notification from the additional application, creates a standardized first window with consistent design elements, and manages the display. This mediator approach allows additional applications to extend functionality while maintaining uniform window design through the standard application's control over window creation and styling.
2Illumination intensity
If standard application displays notification windows with high priority, then visibility and importance are improved, but design integration with additional application windows deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The standard application applies homogeneous design elements to all notification windows it creates, including those triggered by additional applications. By using consistent styling, layout patterns, and visual characteristics for first windows regardless of which application initiated them, the system achieves both high visibility through preferential display and design integration through uniform appearance.
3Adaptability or versatility
If additional applications create windows independently, then application autonomy and flexibility are improved, but design coordination and system integration deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The window creation and design management functionality is extracted from the additional application and transferred to the standard application. The additional application only needs to issue a notification to trigger the display, while the standard application handles all window creation, styling, and management. This extraction maintains application autonomy for the additional apps while centralizing design coordination in the standard application.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing device includes a display device that displays information, and a controller, wherein the controller executes a standard application that causes a basic function of the information processing device to operate, and an additional application that causes an operation that adds a function other than the basic function to the information processing device, the standard application preferentially displays, when a predetermined notification has been acquired from the information processing device, a message based on the notification as a first window on the display device, the additional application displays predetermined information according to processing as a second window on the display device, and the additional application acquires display information relating to the first window, and determines a design of the second window based on the display information.