Idea No. 7: Chat Messenger Style OS
For the most part, what we do with our devices include asking questions, issuing commands, finding information, launching applications, getting things done, etc. If you can voice it out, the computer can do it. If you can type it in and press enter, the computer can handle it. It's really just like sending messages and getting replies back, or receiving messages and replying back. So what if your basic OS UI is like a chat messenger?
We can easily like interactions where we send and receive, or where we receive and send. A simple OS UI where we can easily send and receive, or where we can receive and send, makes a lot of sense.
If you think about virtual assistants, they have simple UIs. You voice your command or question, and you get a response back. You type in a command or a question, and you get a response as well. Simple back and forth interactions that get the job done. If you want to review your session with the OS, you can simply scroll up and down the "chat" history.
Imagine: You unlock your device and you are presented with a simple virtual assistant UI, ready to listen or receive a command. Say or type that you want to watch a new sci-fi movie, and it responds with lists from Netflix, Prime Videos, Crackle or what have you. Ask for jazz music and it plays. What's the weather? It tells you. What's the latest news? You get them. Check your e-mail, check your calendar, check your tasks... it can list or summarize them for you.
There is really no need to have a menu or a screen full of icons or tiles or widgets of whatever app you have installed. In fact, you don't need to install them. They get added to your virtual assistant as "skills". These skills can merge in like bots, or they can start a new "chat group" named after them. Thus, if you are inside the Dominos "chat group", all your interactions are with the Dominos app, smartly responding to your pizza orders, thus suggesting that apps can choose to adopt the messenger style UI as well.
Traditional windowed or full-screen apps can still exist, of course. They launch as usual. You use them as usual: Office, Photoshop, games, web browser, camera, etc. For some functions, if possible, and if it makes sense, conversational or messenger style interaction can be an extended or split screen feature. For example, when you want to insert a new destination to a GPS route actively giving directions.
The simplest OS UI is the virtual assistant experience of today. It can also be the more natural UI for apps, bots and skills. Full screen and windowed apps are OK as well. Really, what's important is that you have a quick way to get to them.
We can easily like interactions where we send and receive, or where we receive and send. A simple OS UI where we can easily send and receive, or where we can receive and send, makes a lot of sense.
If you think about virtual assistants, they have simple UIs. You voice your command or question, and you get a response back. You type in a command or a question, and you get a response as well. Simple back and forth interactions that get the job done. If you want to review your session with the OS, you can simply scroll up and down the "chat" history.
Imagine: You unlock your device and you are presented with a simple virtual assistant UI, ready to listen or receive a command. Say or type that you want to watch a new sci-fi movie, and it responds with lists from Netflix, Prime Videos, Crackle or what have you. Ask for jazz music and it plays. What's the weather? It tells you. What's the latest news? You get them. Check your e-mail, check your calendar, check your tasks... it can list or summarize them for you.
There is really no need to have a menu or a screen full of icons or tiles or widgets of whatever app you have installed. In fact, you don't need to install them. They get added to your virtual assistant as "skills". These skills can merge in like bots, or they can start a new "chat group" named after them. Thus, if you are inside the Dominos "chat group", all your interactions are with the Dominos app, smartly responding to your pizza orders, thus suggesting that apps can choose to adopt the messenger style UI as well.
Traditional windowed or full-screen apps can still exist, of course. They launch as usual. You use them as usual: Office, Photoshop, games, web browser, camera, etc. For some functions, if possible, and if it makes sense, conversational or messenger style interaction can be an extended or split screen feature. For example, when you want to insert a new destination to a GPS route actively giving directions.
The simplest OS UI is the virtual assistant experience of today. It can also be the more natural UI for apps, bots and skills. Full screen and windowed apps are OK as well. Really, what's important is that you have a quick way to get to them.
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