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The  Challenge  of    

Touchscreen  Clu0er    

v2.0    (updated  for  the  newest  genera:on  of  smartphones,  from  our  original  white  paper  da:ng  from  2010)  

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2 4”  Diagonal   3.5”  to  4.8”  Diagonal  

Powerful  Devices,  Small  Screens  

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More  and  More  Goes  on  These  Screens  

•  Icons  (everything  gets  an  icon:  apps,  websites,  camera,  system  tools,  folders,  etc)  §  Many  users  have  more  than  100  app  icons  

§  Apple  iPhone  5:    Up  to  24  icons  per  screen  

•  QWERTY  keyboard  for  text  entry  

•  Browsing  §  Browser  command  bars  

§  Website  content  (web  pages,  videos,  photos,  text,  etc)  

•  Camera  controls  when  taking  photos  and  video  

•  App  content  (game  graphics,  augmented  reality,  docs,  email,  …)  §  Social  media  content  (Facebook,  Foursquare,  etc)  

§  App  Controls  

§  App  ads  

•  Telephone  keypad  and  controls  for  telephone  mode  

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Oh,  the  Clu0er!  

Icons  and  more  Icons!    

This  problem  has  become  such  a  burden  on  the  iPhone  user  experience  that  the  iOS4  gave  users  the  ability  to  create  folders  in  which  to  organize  their  icons,  and  the  iPhone  5  increased  the  screen  dimensions  and  added  a  new  row  of  icons.  

On-­‐screen  QWERTY    

 Takes  up  a  huge  %  of  the  screen,  hiding  valuable  content  and  informa^on,  and  is  s^ll  hard  to  use,  inhibi^ng  ac^vi^es  like  enter  URLS  and  search  queries    

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Demands  on  Screen  Space  Threaten  the  Beauty  and  Ease  of  Use  of  Touchscreen  Mobile  Devices  

•  Too  many  icons,  and  too  much  in-­‐app  overlaying  informa^on  creates  a  bad  user  experience  §  Causes  user  confusion  and  inhibits  users  from  greater  use  of  features,  apps  and  Web  

§  Clu`er  creates  real  and  perceived  complexity,  inhibi^ng  users  on  mul^ple  levels  

§  Value  and  impact  of  “eyeball”  content  is  reduced  

•  Forces  app  developers  to  dumb  down  their  app  offerings  §  When  app  commands  and  app  graphics/media  vie  for  the  same  space,  the  app  

commands  must  be  simplified/reduced  

§  App  developers  cannot  put  immersive  and  sophis^cated  apps  on  the  market  successfully  when  complex  commands  in  an  app  cannot  be  presented  and  accessed  in  an  organized  and  compartmentalized  way  (such  as  ribbon  bars  and  pull-­‐down  menus  on  PCs/laptops)  that  is  easily  understood  by  users  

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That’s  the  Problem,    What’s  the  Solu:on?  

•  If  small  screens  are  as  physically  big  as  users  will  tolerate  for  mobile  phones,  what  can  be  done  to  make  them  virtually  bigger?  

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Two  Solu:ons  

1)  Create  a  new  icon  management  system  that  does  a  BETTER  job  of  organizing,  managing  and  giving  users  access  to  icons  

2)  Design  a  new  device  that  moves  all  app,  feature  and  system  COMMANDs  (including  text  entry)    OFF  the  screen  

•  Create  an  en^rely  new  dimension  to  the  mobile  user  experience  of  apps,  features  and  the  Web  

•  Maximizes  the  user  experience  of  the  high-­‐value  “eyeball”  content  on  apps  and  media  

•  Vastly  increases  the  ability  of  app  developers  and  end-­‐users  around  sophis^cated,  next  genera^on  mobile  apps  

•  In  other  words,  do  to  the  current  suite  of  smartphones  what  Steve  Jobs  did  to  the  phones  of  the  pre-­‐iPhone  era  

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Solu:on  #1  

Create  a  new  user  interface  for  touchscreen  smartphones  that  does  a  BETTER  job  of  managing  icons  

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Solu:on  #1  

•  For  how  to  do  this,  see  our  white  paper      

“Smartphone  Icons  –  A  System  for  Improving  Organiza:on  and  Access”  

 

•  Read  it  at  www.pinterest.com/webhub    

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Solu:on  #2  

•  Design  a  new  device  that  moves  the  non-­‐eyeball,  cri^cal  (UI)  informa^on  off  the  screen  to  create  an  en^rely  new  dimension  to  the  mobile  user  experience  

•  Do  this  by  

 “Making  Mobile  Screens  Big  via  the  NeoKeys  mixed-­‐media  keypad”  

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Disaggregate  High-­‐value  “Eyeball”  Content/Media  from  App  Commands  

•  Eyeball  cri^cal  informa^on  (media  and  content)  

§  App  media  and  graphics  

§  Photos  and  videos  

§  Camera  view(s)  

§  Web  pages,  etc  

•  App  Commands  (“Use”  and  “finger”  cri^cal  -­‐  but  not  “eyeball”  cri^cal  -­‐  informa^on)  §  COMMANDs  for  apps,  features  (eg,  camera),  system  

§  Text  entry  keyboards  (QWERTY  etc)  

§  Even  …  icons  

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Where do the COMMANDS go?

§ Onto  the  NeoKeys  mixed-­‐media  keypad  •  One  keypad  

•  Infinite  modes  •  Keys  that  change  mode  to  provide  the  

user  the  commands  the  user  needs  according  to  the  developer  of  the  app  the  user  is  in  

•  One  pa`ern  of  use  

•  Hybrid  displays/keys  •  Keys  that  visually  prompt  the  user  with  

everything  the  user  needs  for  whatever  the  user  has  chosen  to  do  at  that  ^me)  

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How  does  you  create  an  en:rely  new  UX  dimension  to  apps?  

•  Use  the  NeoKeys  Mixed  Media  keypad  

§  One  keypad  

§  Infinite  modes  

§  A  single  pa`ern  of  use  

§  Learned  instantly    

•  See  more  images  and  learn  more  as  indicated  in  the  next  slides  

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The  Future  for  Big  Mobile  Screens:    Mul:media  Keypads  

•  As  users  demand  more  sophis^cated  apps  and  quick-­‐to-­‐no  learning  curves  for  using  those  apps,  separa^ng  user  interface  informa^on  from  high-­‐value  “eyeball”  media/graphics  is  the  only  viable,  complete  solu^on  

•  Our  mixed  media  keypad  technology  is  the  solu^on  to  delivering  the  best  next  genera^on  mobile  user  experience  §  very  easily  and  very  intui^vely  for  users  and  app  developers  

§  across  all  features,  apps  and  services  

§  along  with  en^rely  new  business  and  revenue  models  

§  and  en^rely  new  forms  of  user  experience  

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Learn  more  about  Solu:on  #2  

•  Visit  www.neokeys.com    

§  for  a  mul^-­‐media  presenta^on  with  text  translated  in  8  languages  

•  Read  at  www.pinterest.com/webhub    

“What  is  the  NeoKeys  Mixed  Media  Keypad?”  

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What  about  voice  commands,  etc?  

•  Voice  commands,  hap^cs,  advanced  graphical  UI  will  all  be  a  piece  of  the  puzzle  

•  But  essen^ally  they  are  all  analogous  to  predic^ve  text  entry  solware  

§  They  can  be  added  to  any  system  

§  They  provide  some  help  to  some  people  

§  But  in  the  end  they  are  trying  to  solve  the  underlying  problem  by  adding  new  crutches  rather  than  addressing  the  core  issue  

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Voice  commands  -­‐  More  

•  Voice  commands  are  a  great  example  of  a  technology  that  will  become  integrated  into  most  mobile  devices  but  that  has  limited  u^lity  

•  Why  does  it  have  limited  u^lity?  Mostly  human  and  social  constraints!  

§  Many  mobile  contexts  do  not  permit  users  to  give  voice  commands  to  their  phones  (conference  rooms,  subways,  airplanes,  restaurants,  bars,  schools,  elevators,  etc)  

§  Many  users  prefer  not  to  talk  on  their  phones  even  when  they  can  (eg,  people  tex^ng  to  keep  a  conversa^on  private,  such  as  kids  in  the  backseat  of  a  car,  people  in  subways  and  trains,  office  cubicles,  etc)  

§  Users  will  feel  and  look  foolish  dicta^ng  commands  into  their  phones  by  voice  command  (or  hand  gestures,  etc)  when  other  people  are  nearby  

§  As  mobile  apps  proliferate,  and  users  switch  are  constantly  switching  among  many  of  them,  it  will  be  very  difficult  for  users  to  remember  all  but  a  very  limited  subset  of  commands  for  a  small  number  of  apps  (think  how  hard  it  is  to  remember  the  commands  for  voicemail  alone)  

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User-­‐facing,  Patent-­‐Protected  Differen:ators  

 

•  Read  at  www.pinterest.com/webhub    

“The  Importance  of  User-­‐facing,  Patent-­‐Protected  Differen:ators  to  Mobile  Device  Manufacturers”  

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Is  there  a  choice?  

•  No.  •  As  icons  proliferate  and  as  users  demand  

more  sophis^cated  apps,  the  current  systems  are  failing  the  user  §  smartphones  are  all  about  the  user  experience  

§  Smartphones  with  new,  be`er  app/icon  user  experiences  will  replace  the  current  genera^on  of  smartphones  

•  A  Catalog  of  Mobile  Device  Innova^ons  •  What  is  WebHub?    (A  library  of  websites)  •  Will  Apps  Replace  the  Web?  (or  Why  WebHub?)  •  What  is  WebHub?  

•  Search  re-­‐invented  for  mobile,  or  what  is  a  Connec^on  Engine?  •  Smartphone  Icons  –  A  System  for  Improving  Organiza^on  and  Access  •  What  is  the  PiQ  music  app?  •  The  Importance  of  Patent-­‐Protected  Differen^ators  to  Mobile  Device  Manufacturers  •  Topics  in  innova^on  in  mobile  technology  by  Yuvee  •  NeoKeys  –  How  it  works  and  why  it  is  cri^cal  to  touchscreen  devices  •  What  is  the  NeoKeys  Mixed  Media  Keypad?  

•  The  Challenge  of  Touchscreen  Clu`er  (or  Making  Mobile  Screens  Big)  •  The  Non-­‐Subscriber  Revenue  Impera^ve  –  ROI  on  Telecoms  CapEx  •  Richness+Simplicity:    The  Holy  Grail  of  Mobile  UI  •  Yuvee  -­‐  Mobile  User  Experience  Conference  –  UX  Designers’  Den  Slides  •  Mone^zing  the  Keypad  Real  Estate  on  Mobile  Devices  •  The  Changing  Face  of  User  Input  on  Mobile  Devices  

•  Compound  versus  Elemental  Devices  –  New  Mobile  Device  Market  Strategies  •  The  Incredible  Shrinking  Search  Results  Page  •  Dynamic  Keypads:  Terminology  

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More  White  Papers  by  Yuvee  

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