HTC UI Patent Application Takes a Page from webOS
Imagine a user interface where all of your applications and widgets are in cards, and switching between those cards is as simple as a quick flick. Now, imagine if instead of cards, all of your applications lived in pages of a book. And if you're doing that, you're probably HTC, and you've probably filed a Patent application on a User Interface that:
organizes applications, widgets, and web pages into pages of a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book is the UI of a service or function of the handheld electronic device. Flipping the pages of the virtual book means browsing and selecting the services and functions provided by the handheld electronic device. This book-like UI enables the user to use and manage these applications, widgets, and web pages in an easy and intuitive way like browsing a conventional printed book. The book-like UI hides the differences among applications, widgets, and web pages so that the handheld electronic device can be accessed through a uniform and convenient UI.
Sounds awfully familiar, eh? HTC's TouchFLO interfaces have gone quite a long way towards improving Windows Mobile and their Sense UI has done the same for Android. This new patent looks awfully nice too, extending webOS's card metaphor just a bit further. What UI refinements do you think should be next for webOS?.
[via gizmodo]
