A mobile device user interface with a simple, classic design
Richard Morris, Julie Tomlinson · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 2008
We developed a GUI that improves the usability of cell phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices. It has a well-known, time-tested, simple design that offers many advantages over the current hierarchical menu that becomes increasingly complex and convoluted with the continual expansion of cell phone and PDA functionality. Our GUI design associates digital destinations with channels, like a television remote control. Users directly access destinations by entering a channel rather than navigating through menus. It allows browsing and direct connection to all available destinations and can be set up to access specific desired ones. It is user programmable and creates a Channel Guide that shows users which destinations are assigned to which channels according to their wants and needs.