UI Concept: San Francisco

Lee Williams included a 50-second video in his keynote last Tuesday at SEE that I’d like to share here. The video is an  artist’s concept for what a future Symbian UI might be, and we had a lot of fun making it.

In this video we demonstrate the following features:

  • Kinetic scrolling (in Symbian^2)
  • Location-based services (in Symbian^2)
  • Different widget sizes (coming in Symbian^3)
  • Animations and transitions (coming with NGA in Symbian^3)
  • Compass and accelerator integration (coming in Symbian^3)
  • Menu at the top of the screen (inspirational idea)
  • Toolbar at the bottom of the screen, replacing soft keys (inspirational idea)
  • Augmented reality integration (inspirational idea)

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This entry was written by Scott Weiss, posted on November 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM, filed under Design and tagged , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. BoyBawang
    Posted November 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM | Permalink

    Everything is great. the only dumb idea is “Menu on top of the screen” No way It can improve single handed navigation if it’s to high to reach with thumb.

  2. chips
    Posted November 6, 2009 at 7:37 PM | Permalink

    The UI still looks bit cluttered. But looks much better than the current one. It’s great that you removed those soft buttons.

    I am looking for a panel based UI like Maemo and Android which would be great and end-user can decide what s/he wants.


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