Some weird comments in there, but I do like the blocks concept, but removing the text for just app icons isn't going to be really helpful if an app updates and changes the icon and the user doesn't know where the search pull down is.
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#12BlackBerry 10 has had this for the last year or two, but who cares right?
http://developer.blackberry.com/design/bb10/active_frames.ht...
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#13I have yet to see a situation where widgets are actually useful.
I find them useful. Here's how: - Weather info. Before heading out for the day I can see instantly if I might need a jacket or umbrella later. - Tube status. I can see at a glance if there are any problems on any underground lines. If there are, I can click on the problem line to get more detailed information with a single touch. - Calendar. Shows me my schedule for the day. - Music. Control playback without having t…
Weather and Calender you can check from notification center and Music from control center. It's just a swipe down or a swipe up. If there are any problems on the subway, you get a push notification. You find all your notification in notification center, also your last messages and so on.
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#14The production of this concept is nicely done, but I don't think the concept is particularly good or original at all. As someone has already mentioned, Action Launcher [1] on Android has a very similar feature. You can access widgets with the flick of a finger, not by pinching, which makes them a lot easier to access.
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actionlaun...
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#15Android widgets..unless I'm missing something here.
They're widgets without: - the need to install something explicitly (separate from the app) - the need to name them "widgets" (to the user they're just a fancier icon), which reduces the apparent complexity to the user - they are completely invisible unless invoked by the user, thus preserving the simplicity iOS - they have a natural and fixed size that helps preserve the visual aesthetic of the grid layout, without…
- the need to install something explicitly (separate from the app)
As widgets, apps provide them, you don't have to install them separately.
- they are completely invisible unless invoked by the user, thus preserving the simplicity iOS
As with widgets. You don't see them, until you start using them.
they have a natural and fixed size that helps preserve the visual aesthetic of the grid layout, without special efforts by the user
Actually, different sizes are nice, as widgets and Windows tiles have shown. Some like their calendar widget to be short, to just show the top 1 or 2 items. Others like their calendar widget to take up a complete screen, so that they can swipe to it.
I think the nice addition here is more how you create/invoke a widget and that it is restricted to one widget per app. But it's not all that different from Android widgets, WP tiles, or Blackberry's widgets.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find them useful. Here's how: - Weather info. Before heading out for the day I can see instantly if I might need a jacket or umbrella later. - Tube status. I can see at a glance if there are any problems on any underground lines. If there are, I can click on the problem line to get more detailed information with a single touch. - Calendar. Shows me my schedule for the day. - Music. Control playback without having t…
Weather and Calender you can check from notification center and Music from control center. It's just a swipe down or a swipe up. If there are any problems on the subway, you get a push notification. You find all your notification in notification center, also your last messages and so on.
The difference is that you don't need to swipe down to see them. You just look at your phone and the information you want is there.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find them useful. Here's how: - Weather info. Before heading out for the day I can see instantly if I might need a jacket or umbrella later. - Tube status. I can see at a glance if there are any problems on any underground lines. If there are, I can click on the problem line to get more detailed information with a single touch. - Calendar. Shows me my schedule for the day. - Music. Control playback without having t…
Weather and Calender you can check from notification center and Music from control center. It's just a swipe down or a swipe up. If there are any problems on the subway, you get a push notification. You find all your notification in notification center, also your last messages and so on.
Sure, and the lockscreen is another place to put information like this.
> It's just a swipe down or a swipe up.
That's why I prefer a widget (or lockscreen), there's no swiping required at all. As for getting push notifications for the subway... No thanks, I don't want a notification every time some subway line is running a little slow. I only want notifications for events I care about, with few or no false-positives.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find them useful. Here's how: - Weather info. Before heading out for the day I can see instantly if I might need a jacket or umbrella later. - Tube status. I can see at a glance if there are any problems on any underground lines. If there are, I can click on the problem line to get more detailed information with a single touch. - Calendar. Shows me my schedule for the day. - Music. Control playback without having t…
Weather and Calender you can check from notification center and Music from control center. It's just a swipe down or a swipe up. If there are any problems on the subway, you get a push notification. You find all your notification in notification center, also your last messages and so on.
When I used an Android device, I did not like widgets cluttering up my desktop. However, I did have a calendar widget on the lock screen. I am a forgetful person, so I appreciate having reminders about upcoming events so visible. I am forced to look at it. Even with with the red badge on Clear, I don't open the app enough to see what tasks I have to do. Opening and closing apps to get a small amount of useful information seems so inefficient to me.
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#19Android widgets..unless I'm missing something here.
They're widgets without: - the need to install something explicitly (separate from the app) - the need to name them "widgets" (to the user they're just a fancier icon), which reduces the apparent complexity to the user - they are completely invisible unless invoked by the user, thus preserving the simplicity iOS - they have a natural and fixed size that helps preserve the visual aesthetic of the grid layout, without…
They are Android widgets, but less discoverable. Actually they are not discoverable at all. I don't see how this preserves "iOS simplicity" to introduce a feature that is not simple and can only be known by word of mouth.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Weather and Calender you can check from notification center and Music from control center. It's just a swipe down or a swipe up. If there are any problems on the subway, you get a push notification. You find all your notification in notification center, also your last messages and so on.
Sure, and the lockscreen is another place to put information like this. > It's just a swipe down or a swipe up. That's why I prefer a widget (or lockscreen), there's no swiping required at all. As for getting push notifications for the subway... No thanks, I don't want a notification every time some subway line is running a little slow. I only want notifications for events I care about, with few or no false-positives…
To have those push notifications work properly, you would need something like Google Now. You don't want notifications for the nearest tube station, you only want those for the stations you use on a regular basis. So Apple would have to know your daily routine for this to work properly. Apple is not keen on tracking copious amounts of its users data, so they may be opposed to this from the beginning. Then they have to have a web service to properly handle all of this. Poor web services is the biggest flaw of the Apple ecosystem.