[scottweiss]

Lee Williams included a 50-second video entitled UI Concept: San Francisco 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)

Please share your thoughts here.

[justin.armstrong]

Hi Scott,

That video looks very promising.
At first I thought the toolbar at the bottom was just a set of application shortcuts, but I see that it changes when the map is selected to a set of map options. Its not clear to me which options would go in the toolbar and which would go in the menu. Perhaps more examples would make it clearer.

I think the tap-and-hold for context menus is a great idea.