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Jan-Michael Cart has posted another iOS 5 concept video this time demonstrating an idea for dynamic icons and users  have the option of turning on these dynamic icons by going to the Settings. Icons are granted the ability to change their appearance given a variety of push notifications and once the notification badge is pushed, a new icon file is displayed……….

With Apple’s official announcement of iOS 5 just around the corner, concept videos for possible UI features are cropping up from all over the place. A concept UI feature, appropriately titled, Dynamic Icons has the ability to, well, display different information on an app’s icon depending on what Push Notification it pushed last, home screen Tiles in Windows Phone 7. Quoting the person behind the concept, Jan-Michael Cart:

Users have the option of turning on these “dynamic icons” by going to the Settings. Icons are granted the ability to change their appearance given a variety of push notifications. In turn, once the notification badge is pushed, a new icon file is displayed. These icons can have text (albeit small, but legible text due to the Retina Display), images, a mixture of the two, or something constantly changing (but based on an internal source, not using cellular data — a la Clock app that displays time).

I thought of another alternative to the widgets as well. This time, it’s called “App Preview”, or just “Preview”. Double tap anywhere in the grid pattern that is not an icon (one handed), or pinch-to-zoom (two handed), and the icons immediately expand as if your icon grid is 2×2. The same information and interaction typical of a widget is found on the app icon itself — the App Preview comes with the app download. No need to download anything more.

 

Cart doesn’t stop at this. He has also brought up an alternative to widgets which he calls App Preview. It works by zooming in on the app’s icon to show information typical of widgets right on the icon itself. App Preview won’t have to be managed separately (as is the case with Android) since the preview is coded with each app.

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