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iPhone OS 4.0: A full GUI makeover?

Personally, I would love to see a folder metaphor of some kind that is similar to, but not identical, to what business users may be accustomed to. I think the phone is a fine business tool but I wonder about how it could be improved further for those specific needs.

Part of me loves the HTC configuration approach for work | play...and so on. Jumping between let's say a calendar open with some appointments at a glance and some communication tools at the ready on the home screen or lock screen vs. iTunes and games and the like right on the home screen. I actually organize my screens that way so I can jump to those "categories" as I need them.

I think the lock screen is underused. Besides the jailbreaking and getting to Inltelliscreens and beautiful hacks to the lock screen, I think that stuff should be native. It just be great for some of us. In the meantime I'll keep making backgrounds that help solve part of the problem.

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And hope one day this kind of stuff becomes standard in the next update or OS.
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-bender- said:
Personally, I would love to see a folder metaphor of some kind that is similar to, but not identical, to what business users may be accustomed to. I think the phone is a fine business tool but I wonder about how it could be improved further for those specific needs.

Part of me loves the HTC configuration approach for work | play...and so on. Jumping between let's say a calendar open with some appointments at a glance and some communication tools at the ready on the home screen or lock screen vs. iTunes and games and the like right on the home screen. I actually organize my screens that way so I can jump to those "categories" as I need them.

I think the lock screen is underused. Besides the jailbreaking and getting to Inltelliscreens and beautiful hacks to the lock screen, I think that stuff should be native. It just be great for some of us. In the meantime I'll keep making backgrounds that help solve part of the problem.

3768849007_f42df15e46_o.jpg


And hope one day this kind of stuff becomes standard in the next update or OS.
3063160301_653dbd1162.jpg
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This is freaking killer. I would love something like this... love it!! :)
 
-bender- said:
Personally, I would love to see a folder metaphor of some kind that is similar to, but not identical, to what business users may be accustomed to. I think the phone is a fine business tool but I wonder about how it could be improved further for those specific needs.

Part of me loves the HTC configuration approach for work | play...and so on. Jumping between let's say a calendar open with some appointments at a glance and some communication tools at the ready on the home screen or lock screen vs. iTunes and games and the like right on the home screen. I actually organize my screens that way so I can jump to those "categories" as I need them.

I think the lock screen is underused. Besides the jailbreaking and getting to Inltelliscreens and beautiful hacks to the lock screen, I think that stuff should be native. It just be great for some of us. In the meantime I'll keep making backgrounds that help solve part of the problem.

3768849007_f42df15e46_o.jpg


And hope one day this kind of stuff becomes standard in the next update or OS.
3063160301_653dbd1162.jpg
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What is this?
 
I just switched to the bb bold... I do miss my iphone but I was so sick of looking at the same UI for the past 3yrs I needed a change.
 
i think apple in 4.0 should rebrand the app store.. to only "THE STORE" and in the store.. developers... and graphic designers can make THEMES and sale them in THE STORE!! but i dont think they should greatly change the iphone gui.. i mean its almost flawless.. i think they should add an option where u can use the iphone in landscape mode all the time..
adding to much stuff to the iphone.. alot of menus and etc is almost going to windows mobile type of os and i know apple doesnt want that..and neither do i
 
topherg said:
I just switched to the bb bold... I do miss my iphone but I was so sick of looking at the same UI for the past 3yrs I needed a change.
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And the BlackBerry UI has been pretty much the same all its life, except they kept changing the theme every big update. The menu's are still pretty much the same.
 
After having this UI for 2+ years I'm so tired of it

I'd like to see changes. In no specific order:

1) Able to put your background behind icons like when jailbroken
2) Five icon dock
3) Weather icon actually shows the weather
4) Icon library. Hold down like when you're going to delete app and you can change icon or some interface for that.
5) etc..
 
The iPhone of today dont utilize any multitouch on the homescreen ...

Now that is defently a place to start ..

This is my solution:

The springboard should act equal on how the dock works on the Mac .. all icons located on the springboard should be alias "shortcuts" .. removing apps from the home screens wont remove the app just the shortcut ..

making a two finger gesture on any homescreen will take you to Spotlight where it displays all installed applications on your whone ....

Doing a right swipe over the current application listend in spotlight (like in MobileMail) will uninstall your application ...

Press more then 2 secunds on an app in spotlight and the iphone will add it as a shortcut to the homescreen ...

Also in spotlight when nothing is search there should be categories you can click on to display just installed games, or just installed music applications...
 
-bender- said:
I think the lock screen is underused.
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I agree. There is so much potential to use it for. Lets throw some widgets on that bad boy!!

Also, I've just had an idea that I haven't seen before. You can have different ways to unlock your phone, yielding different "accounts" or "settings" or something like that. I could imagine at least 3 fairly simple ways to unlock the screen. Horizontal swipe, vertical swipe, and a press and hold location. I couldn't imagine apple trying to implement more than that for simplicity's sake, but I'm sure there could be many more.

It would kinda be like different "spaces". They could each have their own set of apps, or open to your home/work settings, or could even open to an entirely different environment.

Also it could be an easy way to "quick start" frequently used apps. For example if you wanted, you could go straight to pandora or your email.

The possibilities really are quite exciting! :)
 
Hoping for a multi-touch home button so I can have multiple apps "running" at once.

Example, in weather but you rotate your thumb to the right like an iPod clickwheel and you get the application that was updating to the right.

Could also work with safari and weather tabs, just swipe right and you get the tab to the right.

I want real time backgrouding. That's the only thing that Apple could update I think to make this phone better at the point.
 
also, they should make the area around home button touch capable, like the pre so we can have more gestures! that would make for some pretty cool UI shortcuts and stuff like that.
 
The folder concept is needed, but it would be clunky. I would like the ability to add add a title header to each page, be able to send and app to a page - press and hold icon that brings up a context menu to delete, send to one of the pages, or hide it, and even still drag it.

Then an icon that can be docked, press to bring up a context menu to jump to one of the pages.

Would also like an option to change icon size.
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
Also, I've just had an idea that I haven't seen before. You can have different ways to unlock your phone, yielding different "accounts" or "settings" or something like that. I could imagine at least 3 fairly simple ways to unlock the screen. Horizontal swipe, vertical swipe, and a press and hold location. I couldn't imagine apple trying to implement more than that for simplicity's sake, but I'm sure there could be many more.
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WinMo7 does that. Based on the icon you swiped to unlock, SMS, Email, Call list, etc would launch.
 
I'd like to see Apple implement folders and also the ability to have Stacks with the options like in Mac OS X. I'd be perfectly happy then.
 
Different Approach

How about getting rid of the most used app bar altogether?

Wait, wait, here me out...

Since we scroll through pages to see our apps how about paging through our most used apps..

Ok Think about it like this:

Right now it is:

Search <- Apps Page -> more app pages ( times 9)

What if you used all 8 directions to scroll?

Contacts Phone OtherApp
\ | /
Search <- App Pages -> more App Pages ( times 9)
/ | \
Safari SMS Mail


Each of the applications locations would be configurable and we could get more apps on a page by losing the last line.

Finally we color code each page so that you can navigate at a glance and possibly add stacks for classes of applications?


Hmmmmm, I might need to photoshop this when I get home....
 
What if the Dock itself scrolled horizontally? It would scroll just like the home screen, but it would allow us to use more than 4 icons in the Dock.
 
TheSpaz said:
What if the Dock itself scrolled horizontally? It would scroll just like the home screen, but it would allow us to use more than 4 icons in the Dock.
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then why have the dock at all?...why not make it a full screen of apps? isnt that the point of the dock on the iphone?....to have a place to put your most used apps and it doesnt move with the different app screens
 
bina12834 said:
then why have the dock at all?...why not make it a full screen of apps? isnt that the point of the dock on the iphone?....to have a place to put your most used apps and it doesnt move with the different app screens
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Auto-hiding the dock like in Mac OS would be nice, but I think we'll have to wait for the iPhone to include retina tracking hardware to make this possible...
 
bina12834 said:
then why have the dock at all?...why not make it a full screen of apps? isnt that the point of the dock on the iphone?....to have a place to put your most used apps and it doesnt move with the different app screens
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How about this. If Apple made the icons a tiny bit smaller, they could fit 5 icons in the Dock and still make it look nice. Also, you could have more apps on the springboard.

Perhaps they could let us resize our icons (like in OS X) to whatever icon size we'd like.
 
The one thing I would like to see improved on the UI is the ability to flip between Internet pages (via Safari) and other apps. I think the Pre has the capability. The switching from a web page to the Google maps (via a link) could use improvement. It would be nice to have the capability to flip thru all active programs without having to go back to the home screen.
 
TheSpaz said:
How about this. If Apple made the icons a tiny bit smaller, they could fit 5 icons in the Dock and still make it look nice. Also, you could have more apps on the springboard.

Perhaps they could let us resize our icons (like in OS X) to whatever icon size we'd like.
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I think they're that size to be "finger friendly"
 
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