Motorola Home Screen & Widgets (2009-12)
Motorola Home Screen & Widgets (2009-12) from Anthony Hand
Motorola Home Screen & Widgets (2009-12)

I was the lead UI designer on the MOTOBLUR Home Screen and most of the widgets. I worked closely with product management, the engineering teams in particular on the widget projects.

Motorola was the first Android OEM to innovate resizable widgets in 2010. This created a ton of work as each size for each orientation (landscape & portrait) and each screen size had to be separately designed, engineered, tested and tracked.

My widgets included: Weather, Status Update, Calendar, Date & Time, Social Networking, News, Radio Toggles (Airplane Mode, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS), Sticky Notes, Tasks, World Clock, and contributed to multiple others.

Even though I left Motorola in December 2010, most of the widgets and designs were intact on an Atrix 2 in Spring 2012.

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

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Two Motorola widgets: User Status widget (2nd one) and a Social Networking widget (showing friends' updates; 3rd one). The user touches the status widget to update their own status on multiple social networks. The SN widget is user configurable. Resizable. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
The Motorola Clock widget. User configurable for digital or analog and came in multiple colors on some devices. Resizable. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
This screenshot illustrates the Widget Moving Mode. The widget delete icon is at the top in the red zone. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A widget for the Motorola News app. User configurable to a specific stream or set of feeds. Resizable. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A sticky notes widget. Available in multiple colors; contents easily shared. Resizable. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A Social Networking widget showing an update from a Twitter buddy (@AndroidHeadline). Touch this widget to view the Social Networking Card. User configurable to one or more contacts, one or more services, and by time frame. Resizable. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
Radio toggle widgets. One touch to turn the radio on or off, a highly desired feature to help users manage power consumption. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A widget for the Motorola Calendar app. User configurable to a specific calendaring service. Resizable. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
The Motorola Weather widget. User configurable to a user-defined list of cities anywhere in the world. Resizable. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A smaller version of the Motorola Weather widget. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A Motorola Weather card using a proprietary 3D framework. Touch the weather widget to view more detailed information about its associated list of cities. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A Motorola World Clock widget. User configurable with the user's current location and from a small set of major wold cities. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A widget for the Motorola Tasks app. User configurable by tag, type of task (e.g., overdue), etc. Resizable. (Motorola Atrix 2, Spring 2012)
A visual design study for the new (at that time) Contact Widget. User configurable for desired information. Resizable. (Spring 2010)
A design mockup for the 3 main Home Screen panels with their default widget sets on the CLIQ/DEXT, Motorola's first Android device. (Fall 2009)
An overview of the handful of proprietary widgets available on the CLIQ/DEXT, Motorola's first Android device. (Fall 2009)
An overview of the handful of proprietary widgets available on the CLIQ/DEXT in a variety of alternate states (e.g., no picture, unconfigured, etc.). (Fall 2009)
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Motorola Home Screen & Widgets (2009-12)

I was the lead UI designer on the MOTOBLUR Home Screen and most of the widgets. I worked closely with product management, the engineering teams in particular on the widget projects.

Motorola was the first Android OEM to innovate resizable widgets in 2010. This created a ton of work as each size for each orientation (landscape & portrait) and each screen size had to be separately designed, engineered, tested and tracked.

My widgets included: Weather, Status Update, Calendar, Date & Time, Social Networking, News, Radio Toggles (Airplane Mode, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS), Sticky Notes, Tasks, World Clock, and contributed to multiple others.

Even though I left Motorola in December 2010, most of the widgets and designs were intact on an Atrix 2 in Spring 2012.

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

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