Motorola Home - Apps Launcher with Groups (2010)
Motorola Home - Apps Launcher with Groups (2010) from Anthony Hand
Motorola Home - Apps Launcher with Groups (2010)

I was the lead UI designer on the MOTOBLUR Home Screen and related projects. One of our big projects for late 2010 was to add the ability for the user to better organize the "Apps Launcher." This screen shows all installed apps. The feature launched with "Blue Blur" devices in Spring 2011.

It was my concept to allow users to "tag" apps by putting them into "groups" rather than mutually exclusive folders, each with their own user editable name and icon. Other priority features were to allow the user to easily add the folder to the Home Screen, provide quick access to the Android Market, and to leverage the new Twitter-style UI patterns in the top command bar.

As Motorola moved to Android Ice Cream Sandwich is Summer 2012, the feature for grouping apps on this screen was one of the few legacy Blur features Motorola decided to keep.

A more complete professional portfolio is on my personal web site:
www.AnthonyDHand.com

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The Motorola Home Screen. To access the list of installed apps, touch the square button in the bottom right corner. (Motorola Atrix 2)
The list of installed apps, All Apps Group. (Motorola Atrix 2)
The list of installed apps, All Apps Group, with Menu. (Motorola Atrix 2)
The popup showing all groups. (Motorola Atrix 2)
This is the UI for editing an app group. (Motorola Atrix 2)
This screen shows the use case for an empty group, such as a brand new one. (Motorola Atrix 2)
An example of a group a user has populated with lots of apps.
The user can sort apps as desired. (Motorola Atrix 2)
The popup showing all groups. The "All apps", "Recent" and "Downloaded" groups were special. Even as the user added new groups, these 3 remained in the top row. Others were displayed alphabetically. (Motorola Atrix 2)
This is the context menu for an app. The goal was to make it easier for a user to add an app shortcut to the home screen and to uninstall an app. (Because this was a core app, it can't be uninstalled, so that option isn't shown.) (Motorola Atrix 2)
The list of recently used apps. The goal was to replace the native Android Task Switcher UI which at the time felt disconnected from the rest of the Android experiences. (Motorola Atrix 2)
A storyboard that was prepared during development to show how a single use case ("Switch groups") was intended to work.
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Motorola Home - Apps Launcher with Groups (2010)

I was the lead UI designer on the MOTOBLUR Home Screen and related projects. One of our big projects for late 2010 was to add the ability for the user to better organize the "Apps Launcher." This screen shows all installed apps. The feature launched with "Blue Blur" devices in Spring 2011.

It was my concept to allow users to "tag" apps by putting them into "groups" rather than mutually exclusive folders, each with their own user editable name and icon. Other priority features were to allow the user to easily add the folder to the Home Screen, provide quick access to the Android Market, and to leverage the new Twitter-style UI patterns in the top command bar.

As Motorola moved to Android Ice Cream Sandwich is Summer 2012, the feature for grouping apps on this screen was one of the few legacy Blur features Motorola decided to keep.

A more complete professional portfolio is on my personal web site:
www.AnthonyDHand.com

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Anthony Hand
Sr. User Experience Designer at DTS, Inc. San Jose, CA