I’d have loved for this post to be the introduction of our latest iPhone application. An application that introduces a new -default- optional home screen. A screen that doesn’t require you to scan for red dots with numbers inside of them. Instead it would display information and notifications of things that are new and relevant to you. We’ll all have to keep dreaming for the time being. Unless you’re willing to jailbreak your phone it simply isn’t possible to develop and implement this type of hostile UI takeover using the iPhone SDK.
Until then (we’re doubtful that sort of freedom will ever be available) Here’s how we might design a new home screen.
You can see from the screens it’s essentially just a scrollable list of applications and notifications. We envision it behaving in much the same way that the list view does in the Calendar application. By default it may track things like missed calls, unread emails and calendar events. But what if users could allow other apps to feed into this screen as well? If I’m a Facebook junkie I’d be able to tell the Facebook app to include certain feeds on my home screen. If I was a frequent traveler I may include the Tripit app to show me my upcoming trips. The options would only be limited by what apps you have installed.
Update: The demand for this has been too great to ignore. We’re building a working version of this. More details and screens to follow. You can follow us at twitter.com/teehanlax
A scrollable screen of the stuff that matters to me.
Application preferences would allow users to include certain feeds on their home screens.
Jon had mentioned (as did Drew in the comments) he’d like this info without having to unlock the phone. I agree. If only development were this easy.
written by Geoff Teehan
I would like this kind of information without needing to unlock my screen, and an option of sorts to give my locked screen some select contextual information specific to me. Missed calls or weather and upcoming events to my current time would be the best. once I unlocked the screen the rest of the information would be available to me.
still nice ….
I would buy that app for a dollar. Ok maybe even $4 to be honest. It would be great for a home screen like this and I am sure that you could build an app that could handle this type of info aggregation. The biggest issue is just that it would have to be an app and you would have to boot it up constantly to get this type of aggregate.
Hey who knows it happened to coverflow and widgets. [well widgets were stolen] At the very least you might sell a few and make a few bucks along the way.
JP
I’m with drew, this is what I want my lock screen to look like!
Looks like it’s based off of Matte UI, which I dearly miss using since 3.1 came out. It’s such a logical setup that it really stings that we can’t customize it in exactly this fashion.
Just wish Apple would suck it up and implement both this and something similar to SBSettings.
I always wondered why Apple didn’t implement something like this in the first place. This is something that is useful and seems obvious.
@drew I agree with this as well, bu it would have to show limited information because of security. Also, I think it would have to be a global preference that is app-specific. However, it would be very useful.
Awesome concepts. Hope someone from Apple sees this as I would love to have an interface like this – far more informative than a bunch of icons.
Awesome work, man. Aesthetically spot on and the inclusion of third party apps is great.
Anyone else notice the time in the pictures.
Thanks for the idea, I’ll have the boys get to work on it.
*sigh*
That’s just fabulously gorgeous.
Great! Somebody finally tries to port the good old Windows Mobile home screen back to iPhone, with better fonts.
4:20 brah.
This looks great, but it looks like Apple already has something like this in the works:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=122
and
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/27/apple_proposes_location_based_iphone_home_screens.html
Great stuff guys. Boggles the mind that it’s not already implemented. TSJ.
This is what htc and windows mobile phones have been doing for ages.
This implementation already exists on jailbroken iPhones, there are a number of lock screen applications – so you can already have such thing if you are willing to steer into the dark lands of jailbreaking and your iPhone maybe not working etc.
However, this solution looks a bit more refined than those jailbreak apps (though Lockscreen Calendar which I use is very good to customize, it almost looks like an Apple product).
yes, yes, yes.
I hate that pertinent information is a few touches in. There definitely needs to be some sort of an ‘at a glance’ screen like this. Customizable feeds would be amazing. A simple elegant solution here.
I think what you want is an Android phone:
http://www.larvalabs.com/product_pages/intelligent_home_screen.html
Ah, the joys of a non-tyrannical application store.
I’m glad that you did this. On many levels. Mainly because by now we should have it right? – nicely done btw. nice use of space. tweeted and reblogged on tumblr.
What a great re-thinking of the iPhone home screen. I hope, but not holding out for, that Apple would allow and/or create a framework for this. My iPhone 3G is my last iPhone at this point, unless they change their policies significantly before next summer when my contract ends.
I can’t believe there is not an app for this already, or some kind of hack available. The default iPhone screen is about branding if anything else though not just usability I think. Did you borrow any design ideas from the AccuWeather application? Its looks very similar.
I’ve loathed my Windows Phone when I had one, but if it’s one thing I really miss it’s the home screen(or whatever they called it). It was great for getting on glance information about your calendar and stuff like that.
My gut-feeling is that Apple IS working on something like this, but like with copy and paste they only want to release it when they are perfectly happy with it.
Well, at least… that’s what I hope.
This might not be possible with an application, but if this gets popular enough don’t think Apple won’t “borrow” from your ideas!
I think this is one of the only things truly missing from the iPhone at present… there’s no place to get a summary of even just the default apps such as Mail, Calendar, SMS, Weather, etc. But the ability to integrate other apps would be awesome.
Hopefully your post gets Apple’s attention.
Guys,
This is flatout amazing. I think it is a beautiful home screen creation and something I would rock on mine. I love how you can see things from a glance. Instead of unlocking the phone and going into the app. Love it.
OMG, I love it.
Please Apple, make something like that!
Very nice concept! I would like to use something like that on my iPhone.
Nice job. It’s both aesthetically pleasing and quite efficient.
But i would like to point that many iPhone users are casual users who care for quick access to say games or a music streaming app or a Facebook app. Your mock-up is geared towards productivity tools, the smartphone way. That kind of home screen might not be customizable enough to tend to all users. I doubt Apple would do something very similar to that, or it would be as an alternative view.
I like this idea a lot – very good done! In general the homescreen should let you do several changes in the direction of personal and matching content.
I love this idea. It would so much more useful if the iPhone opened to an at-a-glance screen like that. It shouldn’t be just an application, which you’d still have to find & open, but it should replace the springboard as the first thing you see.
I have been researching this for a while, and seen different version that were only available on jailbreak phones.
I absolutely love the idea, not only that, the layout is quite splendid. I would easily pay for this if it ever became available.
I love it. Efficiency is the key, and the current home page has a whole lot of stuff that I don’t even care to look at on a daily basis. Great post.
Well done. Until Apple provides something like this, I may just print out your mock-ups and tape them to my iPhone.
To take it a step further… I’d like the notifications (calls, SMS, email, twitter, facebook, etc) to be aware of my address book, allowing for a contact-centric “river of notifications” (similar to RSS “river of news”). I think I remember seeing that the Pre did this, but I’m not sure.
Bravo. Gets my vote.
Those changes would be great. Aside from that I would love to finally have flash on the iphone and better customization of alerts for texts, emails, and profiles for ringing/vibe/silent
I’m just as busy as the rest of you, but I don’t want my home screen to be a prettier mockup of Windows Mobile. I like it because it’s uncluttered, I like to initiate my specific applications. I’d say you buy an Andrew or a Diamond, you’ll have these features for sure!
Please let it happen! It looks fabulous!
Fir
I can tell you after using a Palm Pre for the past few weeks as a second phone, the ability to see email messages, SMS and IMs at a glance without unlocking the phone and launching each app is very handy.
Very nice, I miss this so much… Please, let’s all report this to apple with this link:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
I only hope Apple takes a hint and buys this from you guys or at least makes it an implementation for iPhone software update 3.x, it would be amazing to have all that on the home screen and to make it customizable, awesome ideas.
I don’t have an iphone, but I do agree with you, this would be AWESOME!
I agree with others. It’s time the iPhone (and touch) had this. Having almost everything I need to know at a glance on the home page is the only thing I like about my otherwise awful Windows smartphone.
I love this, great work! Hope Apple integrates something like this, would be very useful.
Yes, yes and yes this is the only think I miss about my n95
If only your app could somehow modify the wallpaper image to show the content you want. It wouldn’t scroll or be linkable, but it would still provide useful info. Hmm, I bet the SDK doesn’t allow your app to change the wallpaper without notifying the user or update while the screen is locked…
This looks perfect. Can I get it on Android?
Make a Cydia app!!!!!!!
thank heavens for saurik, et.al. this is gorgeous, and i like the “limited only bu what apps you have.” everything should be customizable. and it’s really nice looking, what you show here.
Amazing… maybe with a wallpaper.
Super super smart. I need this. Better than Apple!! I’d pay big bucks for this — and I never buy apps.
I was happy with my homescreen until I saw this. Nice work, hopefully they will pick up on it.
Seriously, great design… Apple should implement this and give you lots of dollars for the idea. I’ve always been really surprised that the default home view is your apps. No one wants or has the time to have to check three million apps to get all the info they need. Especially people like me who only have two speeds for checking email/facebook/etc; obsessively when waiting for an important message, or begrudgingly when people start bothering me.
hell yea!!! that shit is HOT SON wow fuckin A man! why couldnt apple do that shit wow thats nice man !!
Nice but too muche WindowsMobile for me as well. And too much information. I always have x numbers of email, x numbers of Facebook status updates etc. Hmm, I will try to make my own suggestion, will post the link here later. If I’ll make it :)
So basically along the lines of Gruppled Lockinfo theme? (http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16794932&p=1)
which since it is html and js would probably allow for almost exactly this design as well
I guess apple knows who to talk to.
(funny thing is I think the first lockscreen mods on jailbroken iphones predate apple’s patents, could be a fun prior art case ;) )
Nice. I’m a fan.
Nice work, love, if you build it, I’ll by it, seriously, Apple should put in OS 3.2.
so basically you’re looking for more of a blackberry-esque “today” theme? why not just by a blackberry? you’re asking too much of apple. (and no im not against apple at all, i have a mac personally). They simply will not make the phone as functional as necessary….. why? who knows? but i’ll be sticking with my blackberry until apple makes vast improvements such as this.
I love this..if appel reject it put it on cydia. I gladly pay
4-5 bucks for it.
I liked it a lot. But I think it´d work better if all the info was on the standby screen!
i guess eventually apple will come up with some thing like this, although it would be touted as best advancement ever.
Excellent layout! Wish Apple would do something with this.
WOW This is perfect!
Apple read this!!!!!
YES, this is it !! Like Dashboard in Mac OS.
It compliments the concept is beautifulst, I could have it for my iphone?
THAT ‘S IT! asap please ;-)
Wow that’s the word ‘wow’ – Apple by the default should do this since the first time but now shoul implement this and they don’t want sell it on Cydia Store, I’ll pay 4-7 for this very nice!
Like the UI Guys… maybe one day!
My mouth watered a little bit when I first saw that.
I support 100% this app. I used to customize my HTC and I really miss these options in my iPhone. A home page like this could be perfect. My only suggestion is an option for user with confidential problems such as a lock screen and a home screen.
I hope Apple decide to apply it officially in all iPhone models.
Even more exciting would be “Quick Look” integration into this home screen…
The ability to click on individual items in that list (an e-mail message, calendar appointment, or facebook notification) for more information, without needing to launch the entire application itself.
For example, allow me to read my e-mail message without opening it in Mail. Only once I click “reply” or “forward” or some such thing would the Mail – “chrome” I guess you might call it… the app, essentially – actually be loaded.
Same for a calendar event. I can click on one for today and get the additional information (end time, location, notes, & cetera), maybe even press an arrow on the home screen to see tomorrow’s events.
“Quick Look” with 3rd party app integration would really be the killer feature of this home screen.
At first glance, I was all excited because I thought this was real.
Then I realized I shouldn’t get my hopes up.
Great idea. Here’s hoping it come true.
my iphone wants it !!!!
Awesome! Now my iphone will look like my old Windows Mobile Home Screen if ever they implement this. If zune can copy the ipod, why cant the iphone use the windows 6.1 home screen. FTW!
Looks great, can wait to get it!!!
I’m using a similar theme now. Anyone with a jailbroken theme just install this theme and you’ll be happy u did! Takes some minor tweaking but very little. Most the things u need are included in this tutorial. I know VERY little about comps, tech, html, etc and was able to have it up and running in less than half an hour.
http://www.hackthatphone.com/3x/themes_with_winterboard_section27.html
I’ve been using it for months now with zero issues. No memory loss, no crashing, and no battery drain. I had one or all of the above when using other themes. I used Intelliscreen once last year and had so many issues with it a swore to never use it again so when I came across this theme I was super grateful someone took the time to create it.
While Apple design fantastic products they just can’t think of everything that millions and millions of their users can. I find myself quite frustrated with Apple in their sort of ivory tower attitude. They will build it and we will love it is their attitude and for the most part they do get it correct.
What they really need is a decent feedback system that works both ways! It’s all very well to send feedback into their iPhone feedback form (aka black hole) but you never get any feedback (individual or collective) as to the suggestions. Imagine being able to put in a suggestion and either get an email or see a post on a forum that says “thanks for the suggestion. 50,000 other people have asked for the same or similar thing. We are working on a solution for you that will be available in an upcoming release.). Wow. Feedback. What a concept!
You could make a robust app that displays this information (in this layout) only on the unlock screen making it much more simple than an app that is complicated enough to need a jailbreak to display it on the default “Home Screen”.
Just an idea.
-Kelbstr.Tumblr.com
Great idea. I would like to see this soon. The existing home screen is really boring.
dowload button NOW… please!
Wow, I have to say this looks amazing. The design of it looks great and I think this sort’ve thing could really work. I like the way it acts as another page on your home screen. Thats a really good way of doing it.
Only downside though, might be the power requirements to get all that data. It’d have to use stuff like push notification really.
I would love something like this for mine! Lets hope it will become a reality.
I will be willing to jailbreak my iphone for somthing like this….
i need it! wonderful!!! please release it!!! :) thanks!!!
This is almost exactly like LockInfo, without the application launcher at the bottom. I have Lockscreen Info running on my iPhone and have:
- Weather (6 day forcast)
- Calendar (next 7 days of appointments)
- Email
- Missed calls / Voicemail
- SMS / MMS
- Facebook RSS feed, just like in the mockup
It’s an awesome app, doesn’t seem to drain the battery, and is free!
The only downside is you have to add some sources to Cydia to download it.
Sources:
http://david.ashman.com/beta/
http://simonv.chronophoto.fr/cydia/
Open up the first source from above and install Lockscreen Info.
Then open up the second source and install LockInfo Matte UI and any of the plugins you want (weather, todo list, news feeds (aka Facebook status updates), quotes, Status Notifier plugin, and Twitter plus a few more).
Once that’s all installed, open up Winterboard and install the Matte UI. Then go into your iPhone Settings app and set up the LockInfo settings to your liking. Respring and you’re good to go!
My first thought was, “I want that and I don’t care what it costs.”
You know, in case you felt like making it. :)
I have been thinking about this all month and your solution is not very dissimilar to my first sketches. If this can be done using the SDK with a developer account, then it would be easy to distribute in open source form without a need for jailbraking.
Looks inspired by Larva Labs “intelligent” Android home screen prototype announced a day or two before this post.
@Matt It was coincidental. Geoff had already started on it when the Larva Labs post hit the tubes. Great minds think alike.
Love the design. Consider the girlfriend factor… poking buttons means I’m ignoring her, but a quick glance means I’m merely distracted. Of course, the only information I can get from the current home screen is how many emails I’ve missed, which only serves to compound the problem.
wow, this would be a killer… will there be an automatic notification from your side once it´s available in the app-store ?
seriously, i would get an iPhone if i were able to see this homescreen on it.
the only reasen i don’t possess the iPhone is the lousy screen design!
jea, an automatic notification would be something.
really great design!
Great post, I love the idea of having a ‘feed’ on the homepage.
Lee
Not sure about the lock screen, but as an optional home screen it would be PERFECT. Tired of missing appointments in iCal…
Man that would be SO cool! I’ve been looking for something like that in a long time. I agree thay it would be great to see te info on the lockscreen…
I’m not proud of it… but i did something like that using some apps on a jailbroked iPhone… (lockinfo + hideclock + weathericon+ etc…)
If you guys are really working on that…. AWESOME!!!
Saludos desde Chile!
I love it. Hopefully someone at Apple sees this and agrees.
OH NO! After reading this entry, I’m not sure I can live without that home screen. Nice work gentlemen.
If implemented, it would blow away everything out there! And of course, I would purchase this in a heartbeat!! Pls develop this and make our dreams come true.
WOAAAAHHH
When I first saw this, I was like “OH MY GOSH I GOTTA HAVE THIS!”
It’s so beautiful. I wish you guys all the luck on building this thing.
Thank you for the great screenshots! Gotta love it.
I’ll spread the iPhone world about this.
This is beautiful. I’ve always steered away from these kinds of mods, but this one.. wow. Unfortunately, I’m 15, so I don’t have any methods of payment myself, but if I did, I would most certainly pay for this. Please keep working on this, even if it doesn’t end up looking exactly like the screenshots above. It’s just to AWESOME to abandon.
I love this..I always looking for something like this.
I wonder how long before available? Please hurry
need it..
nah Iv got a Brilliant Idea now iv seen it add the spotlight search up top and spotlight becomes your home page :). I’d like to see mockup I would of done myself but id be breaching copyright :).
I would buy that in a heart beat (especially the customizable version)! That is the only thing I am missing on the iPhone from the windows mobile days. Actually, I thought of a similar concept a few days ago but I was not sure if it was technically feasible to include 3rd party apps.
great idea!!!!!
where we can see this app in our iPhones installed??? hohoho!!!
Trés chouette !
Nice!!!
This looks awesome – hopes Apple discover that the static homescreens are outdated – and that we want more dynamic and interactive homescreens.
I think the locked screen could be even more compact and with even more information – I have given it a QUICK try on my blog – dont blame me for the lousy icons – I was in a hurry :-)
http://jorgen.posterous.com/ideer-til-aflsning-af-iphonens-statiske-homes
I just wanted to let you know that I’m really supporting this idea! You can price the app at US $ 10,- and people will buy it. The only real alternative to this is $ 9.99 and it’s ugly and unstable as hell.
Make sure it’s possible to add custom sections via XML/JS(ON)/CSS (remotely hosted, i.e. add the url to an XML/JSON which then loads the CSS and data to display). People would need their own server but it would add endless possibilities. If you’re going to do that, feel free to contact me. I’d love to add a few sections for i.e. dopplr, flickr and my own websites.
It’s a screen like this that makes me love HTC’s TouchFlo 3D (it almost makes Windows Mobile bearable). Sure, the default iPhone Home is streamlined but it’s very, very dumb. Case in point: the weather is always 73 degrees.
god, this is so beautiful! i want it :)
Like everyone else, I’d love this, so much so that I’d be willing to pay $20-25 for it. I seriously doubt Apple will care when they see this ad the they certainly won’t be getting anything like this into the phone until—at least—4.0, nor do I think Apple would every give that kind of control to an official app. If you guys make this I will jailbreak.
teehan+lax team!
Please make this come true: firstly it is a great grafic design,
reduced to the max!
And yet a powerful interface for daily needs…
Makes the iphone finally grow up and at last behave like a real business tool!
I will instantly let go of my Rock+Intelliscreen interface!!!
Nice, but nothing new. This general idea has already been around for over a year. It exists for jail broken iPhones. Nice interface though.
This is sooo boring… the same concept as all the Nokias, HTCs etc… but is it useful? This is a text based concept from the past…
It is easy to create a mockup but a cleverly integrated solution that is flexible enough to fulfill most users needs is much more complicated. There are more innovative concepts in development. If they will come to life and widely accepted has to be seen. Have a look at this:
http://info.vodafone360.com/de/experience/index
Still a video but apparently close to the final product. Connected people as center of your homescreen. Sonds better to me than the boring listing of items…
I like it!
oh, like nokias have had for, erm 5 years ?
but seriously i suspect a semi updating home screen to be introduced with v4 software. the random search page being a pre-cursor.
Steve will introduce it in a way that makes it look like no one ever even thought of such a thing before, while taking a sly dig at nokia/android/touch flow/windows mobile erm i mean windows phone.
Noooo!
I’m not using any of those (I don’t care about weather, I don’t schedule meetings in iCal, I don’t watch stocks so closely, I have too much e-mail for it to make sense on homepage).
For me it would be as useless as Windows Mobile!
if this comme, i change my 2G to a 3Gs…great great work
In one word: awesome, and I agree with many of you, this is how iphone should have look like since the very beginning by many reasons, you only have a default number of icons by screeen, some of us have plenty of aplications, and some times it is quite hard to find what we are looking for, and to be honest, I would pay as someone said $4 or MAYBE $10 for it, if it had plenty of settings.
Good concept!
keep working that way
Wow, this is fantastic.
Build it and I will come. Pay for it. I mean I will pay for it!
Lovely work! I would definitly jailbreak for this on, and willingly pay $5-$10 for that one. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for for a long while.
I’d defo buy this, great work ;-) x
This look is achievable with lockscreen info and modding the Lockinfo Matte UI theme. See here http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16799453&p=4 post #86
Interesting concept guys and it is something the iPhone sorely lacks. Related is that the more Push Notification apps. I enable the more broken it becomes. Android has a decent notification system. This concept provides a useful view of notifications streaming onto your mobile.
One question I have though is; why organise by app.? Why not organise by time? Let calendar items intermingle with ToDo items with Facebook messages etc. All ordered by time.
I LOVE it! I hate using winterboard, but this..
Is there already anything which had the same features as this?
4:20 ftw
This is a good idee. But what is wrong with it. It is to personal designed to call this a good idee. I don’t have a face book and I don’t have stocks. so this would be to irrelevant.
You can add a sort action so that the person can sort de information he likes in de home screen.
You must not scroll for information. That is why the iphone does not display that much information in the home screen. It gets cluterd.
The only thing I like is the top half. Time, wheater, calls and agenda. The rest I would not need.
@mark
In fact, the article says “Application preferences would allow users to include certain feeds on their home screens.”
Or you people could just just buy a Nokia S40 or S60 phone and turn on the ‘Active Desktop’. Everything you show, is already available there!
This really floats my boat. I can’t believe Apple hasn’t thought of this already?!
check out “lockscreen info” on david.ashman.com(cydia source).
I’m desperately searching for a way to display received push messages on the lockscreen as the current apple’s implementation fails miserably when you receive 50 messages from 5 apps per day. I want them arranged by app and organized as finger-scrolled list on the lockscreen.
But can’t find any solution. Can you suggest me one?
Or maybe this project fills my needs?
Yes, this is the homescreen which is needed for future iPhone versions. For business purposes there is actually no possibility to get a summary of current infos such as upcoming appointments etc I hope that Apple will take over your ideas asap. Very good!! I am waiting so long for this iPhone homescreen.
The cydia source is actually david.ashman.com/beta and it’s themeable.
My favorite is gruppled lock info theme. http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16794932
Definitely worth a look if you want this info on your lock screen.
That and notifier/reminder app.
Thanks!!! Nice post!
Hi Guy’s,
This looks awesome – hopes Apple discover that the static homescreens are outdated – and that we want more dynamic and interactive homescreens. Thanks For Sharing valuable information…..
That looks exactly (the idea looks, not the looks of it) like the Today Screen on Windows Mobile, or titanium on Windows Phone :)
great idea! IT’LL happen…..eventually. what’s jailbreak? i’ll do it, or is it detrimental?
Yes YES!! That is sooo needed; I’ve been waiting soo long; I can’t stand staring at a bunch of apps in a row with no information. Will this be available on the itunes app store or will the phone have to be jailbroken? Hope its available soon on the store so we don’t have to download cydia; I stopped jailbreaking long ago….
What will it be called?
Thanks;
Looks soooo great. Hope you can make this super app work. I also hope that you will include the option to show more than only today’s appointments on the screen. so that it could fx. show the next 3 days appointmens or so.
Some of you are missing the real point. The REAL point is that it’s 4:20 and we’re talking about iphone apps…massive conflict of interest!
Yes – this what I´ve been wating for – lets have :-) I´ll pay 10 usd…
Okay, okay 15 usd :-)
I would jailbreak for this. I would also pay $20-25 for a legit app as well. I have jailbroken in the past, and never really thought it was worth it. I don’t like many of the “themes” because I want my iPhone to look like an Apple product, that’s why I bought it. But if this app was available (with or without being on the lock screen) I’d jailbreak again. Great work
You guys aren’t working hard and fast enough.. ;-) My god ; its 2009 and and the apple community doesn’t have a home screen like that in their pocket yet? It doesn’t yet exist? Then we are still in the dark ages…..
how is your cooperation with Saurik growing? Your tweet remained silent for quite some time….
Or are you going your own ways?
I think its allmost there :-) (hope) but until then its LockInfo and LockInfo.theme that does the job for me…
according to Saurik: he is almost done with the framework… :-))
This would be a great thing to have. Clean and accessible. Please include me in any beta testing of this app! You guys really do a great job with smart design.
This is a really nice mockup, although there are some weird components in it. I mean, why do I need a clock on my main screen, if I’m already having it within my top-bar? Also, why is the weather information displayed another way than every other information is? Would there be a possibility for an App developer to decide (and maybe abuse) the way of how his app gets displayed on the home screen? This would lead to inconsistency and to that what we had with Nokias and Blackberries for too long.
Don’t get me wrong, I really like the idea, it’s interesting. But there are some things that need to be re-thought – especially when it comes to such heavy content and the question “Wait… where did my one-hundred-and-eight Apps go?!”. :-)
Good work, keep it up!
This is all wrong. Too much like a HTC!
Seriously Apple “Think invoiation” is more like “patent the shit out of things were not going to use.” This is an amazing mod Apple sometimes has no sense of the consumer!
please make it trasparent! great!
Sorry Stefan, there won’t be a transparency option. IMO It makes the text too difficult to read. That, and it starts looking very unapple-like.
loved, for me it’s better than the oficial…. love HTC and Blackberry layout….
I hope one day (could be a miracle) it can be on Itunes Store to sell.
will be waiting for this to release…. hope it has more features than lockInfo app
It’s amazing that you are doing this. Thank you so much, I’m certainly willing to pay for such an app, and I love how it looks.
Would make life with an iPhone so much better.
I’d pay good money for this! that’s if it existed. I had a HP palm like thing & an XDA (Still got them somewhere rotting in the back of a draw) I always liked the organiser home screen feature on them and I used it all the time, it helped be more efficient.
The iphone is an excellent phone, if it does get this feature in the near future, it’ll be another notch on it massive belt. So Steve if your reading this – take a note! We want this!
When is this beautiful Screeen able to download ??
Hello, love this bluePrint,
as i couldn’t wait to have this on my LockScreen so I made a theme for LockInfo. I’ts working perfectly for the moment but i did’nt do any kind of debugging other than on my phone.
here is a link:
http://www.ame235.com/ame235/2009/11/28/566/
Please let me know if you want to have one copy, test it, “refuse it”. whatever XD
This is fantastic. I hope that Apple are listening as this makes the phone a real, easy-to-use tool that would pay dividends to the business users. I think the current home screen design is good, but it is more suited to the iPod Touch. The iPhone is, or should be sold as, a productivity tool and your design amplifies the fact. Nice one!
Will release my version of this design tomorrow.
Made a Winterboard Theme for LockInfo app. All the people that saw my iPhone asked: what phone is that? (changes from.”oh, you got an iPhone”)
stay tuned.
http://www.ame235.com/ame235/2009/11/28/566/
LockInfo theme released:
http://www.ame235.com/ame235/2009/12/05/lockinfo-theme-release/
Complete MADE_IN.theme preview:
http://www.ame235.com/ame235/2009/12/05/theme-preview-made_in-theme/
XD
This breaks the whole iPhone interaction model. You gain a list of shortcuts, but you break the whole mental model of how you interact with the device.
This way lies Windows Mobile – oh, hang one, this is exactly how early Windows phones worked. It seems convenient but it breaks, well, everything.
I WANT THIS REALLY BAD!! I CAN’T BUY AN IPHONE WITHOUT IT!!
Got tired of waiting. Found LockInfo instead + ame235′s theme. Just what I needed. THANKS!!
Hi guys, still waiting for an update. Any news on the subject yet? When can we download the alpha or beta ?
It’s a great idea and probably will be a great app. !
Would love to hear an update on this – I’d be willing to pay 10 or even 20 bucks for this – and I’m sure many others who value good design would as well. Exciting stuff.
PLEASE create this!!!
The instant the web page loaded up and I saw the iPhone, I said to myself: “Wow!”
Excellent idea if unlock screen could have this information about calendar events and missed calls and new messages. That would be great.
Searching with iPhone is easy with Spotlight but more often than people need to SEARCH information they just need to CHECK information quickly.
Compere this – when people just want to check info from their iPhone in their pocket now they have to:
1. Get iPhone from pocket
2. Push any button to wake iPhone
2. Slide finger across the screen to unlock the iPhone
3. Hit Home button once to get to first Home Screen where iCal is
4. Touch iCal icon to open up iCal
5. Read information
6. Push Sleep button on top of the iPhone to lock it
Compere it to this great new design idea:
1. Get iPhone from pocket
2. Push any button to wake iPhone
3. THE INFORMATION IS NOW ALREADY THERE ON THE SCREEN!
It’s just strange Apple hasn’t implemented this already to iPhone. People do just check information as much as they do search.
Isn’t this exactly like ‘intelliscreen’ which I had back on my EDGE iPhone 1g?
I wonder what happened to that..
My God, I guess people aren’t reading the comments before replying. I’ve seen maybe 50 replies saying “Wow, when will this exist?” or “I’d jailbreak and pay for this!” or “I’d get an iphone if this existed!”
Stop replying and read this: IT DOES EXIST!
Jailbreak your iphone and get LockInfo. Even in it’s native state, it looks practically just like this. It’s obviously the author inspiration for his mockup.
Then ame235 took the mockup on this page and made a lockinfo theme so that it looks EXACTLY like the picture above now. Stop saying you’d jailbreak and pay for this – JAILBREAK AND GET IT!
This is hilarious, in the sense that it’s terrible. Why does this have two clocks? Why is the weather taking the top priority? How do you even remotely make it obvious to the user that all the actual functions of the phone are one page to the right?
Nice to see you copying what HTC does, but this is the most unusable and redundant mockup I’ve seen in a long time.
Uh… This is going from “The best interface design ever” to “let’s burn them in the STAKE!”. Ohmygod. Beautiful experiment in social dynamics.
I have installed Lockinfo+ame235 also. Sorry.
FY sebastiaan
This is the best lock screen thingy that could be developped for Iphone
Hi All,
i wanted to install this lock screen app and now my ipone its in a reebot state (wih the silver apple) after instaling it asked me to restart spring board and tht was all…did any of youhad this issue?
now i can clearly see that its rebooting and rbooting over and over again
@bogdan: I’ve never installed it. I’m waiting on the Cydget.
Or you just buy a windows phone cause that is exacty how it looks like
How do I get the current 235 teehan lax theme? isn’t there a 2.0 beta out? how do I get it?
http://vimeo.com/10141550
Please please Apple take this idea seriously and implement it!
I’m really sick and tired of the Fisher Price look of the iPhone with its blueish and greyish uglyness.
A few things missing in this idea…
SMS indication (including ability to answer right from the lockscreen) and application push…
There should also be a way to mark a message (mail, sms, app push) as read.
Otherwise, great idea !
It is already out there on the Jail brok phones :P Sorry I have it.
I post my vote for Apple to get their Sh#t together and start listening to their CUSTOMERS and start implementing the good ideas that are wanted, such as this one. I appreciate their control to some extent as I lived the uncontrolled life of WiMo for 5 years and there is such thing as too much freedom.
As said above, I used to have a WiMo and it was awful, couldn’t stand the thing after the first year of ownership. But I do also miss the Today Screen (as they call it). Not that mine ever worked that well, but the idea was sound. Interestingly, the calendar feed on that used to work great, then I updated it to 05 and then they for some reason stopped listing all day events on the today screen. So after the update I frequently missed peoples birthdays which I listed as all day events. But that’s irrelevant to this discussion.
Apple do it now! And while your at it allow theming! Year right they say…
As said above, I used to have a WiMo and it was awful, couldn’t stand the thing after the first year of ownership. I agree.
As said above, I used to have a WiMo and it was awful, couldn’t stand the thing after the first year of ownership. But I do also miss the Today Screen (as they call it). Not that mine ever worked that well, but the idea was sound. Interestingly, the calendar feed on that used to work great, then I updated it to 05 and then they for cars sale the silver apple) after instaling it asked me to restart spring board and tht was all…did any of youhad this issue?
Dear Geoff,
thank you for this very good idea. Do you agree that from an abstract point of view we could say that you propose “content surfacing” for the iphone? Obviously you want to bring the most relevant or most actual information to the front (screen). So I think this technical term might be correct.
Best regards
Jörg
What is the current status of this application?
The iPhone so needs this. I am not sure if I will replace my Nokia 5800 because of the way the iPhone handles notifications.
As a business user I don’t want to constantly look for badges for meetings, etc. Nor do I want to open Mail every time I hear the sound, I’d like to glance at it to see if it’s important. The lock screen would be a pretty good implementation. Or at least as a home screen.
You know what, those who don’t want this information on the lockscreen for privacy reasons… I’d love this: http://static.arstechnica.com/iphone_splashmock_large.jpg
I hope apple implement it! There is hope.
However the solution proposed by Teehan + Lax would be better as a homescreen. Apple will not introduce this kind of thing until iOS 5 because it would be such a big UI change. Shame eh? Ghrrr. If they stopped rejecting so many useful apps and provided developers with a more flexible SDK it would be so much better and I wouldn’t criticize the device so much!
The way I see it is there are 2 big reasons with iOS 4 to jailbreak – customization and wifi tethering.
This is freaking awesome!! Apple really needs to implement this.
As an ex Windows mobile user, now an iPhone owner I have since day 1 with the iPhone thought it to be the worst organiser I have ever owned. I recently missed a flight by 1 hour despite looking at my phone several times during that day and also a family birthday (the latter being the reason I bought my first organiser). With windows mobille I was reminded of my events every time I turned the phone on, but with the iPhone I have to remember to go into the calendar (which I keep forgetting to do). I just want this homescreen, doesn’t seem like much to ask. I am seriously thinking of Jailbreaking.
whats going on with this home screen, I want this bad, this would be the only way i would buy an iPhone4. Any update. Are you making this? if yes any idea when the ETA is?
Hi!
What is the current status of this application?
Is there an release date yet?
Thnx!
Michael, it’s already out there since a while now. The app is call Element in Cydia. Not working with iOS 4….
will there be an update for iOS4?
Pleas, please, please make it work with OS 4!!!!
don’t touch iphone’s minimalistic home screen. this work looks like window$ mobile and i dont like it if you want this screen you can buy a phone with window$ mobile OS. iPhone must be minimalistic not too much things on screen
Excellent idea, just what i was thinking about,”how to achieve” and is absolutely required to make the iphone a more business friendly device as well as reduce the gap with other competitors in the market!!
If implemented, it would blow away everything out there! And of course, I would purchase this in a heartbeat!! Pls develop this and make our dreams come true.
hurry up apple and realize that you need give users what they want not what you think they need. Your only priority seems to put your itunes store first! apps, music etc..wheres the real innovation in user interface & phone technology? windows 7 is now a step ahead! the phoe needs good functional apps not just silly games! and beer drinking fun apps! wheres the iphone nano for those of us who dont need to carry around a 16GB or 32GB hard disk? just a small phone that can hold apps and fit in our suit pants without feeling like a TV remote control! Apps are great but should not be the focus of the phone (just a good feature thats to the side) COMMUNICATION that is the purpose of a phone secondly a media player and thirdly a toy. There are currently major breakthroughs in battery technology and we are not really seeing any of the here! (nano and super caps) WTF? apple please go move into the future and stop wasting time and money in redesigning the FrKN case! The world is watching and you have put your feet up and are too busy collecting profits! get back to work!
PS teehan+lax – YOU GUYS are freakin awsome!
Please apple move with the times. We need more dynamism and less of this static nonsense. Please.
Pleassse Apple, give us such a cool editable homescreen !!
If this is getting possible, a whole new world will open !
Hello guys,
Very nice idea and concept, but … it’s not working anymore on 4.2.1 …
I see you are working on a new version, so is there an release date ?
Thanks in advance.
Adrian
I like this rendering of the home screen before and after unlocking but I was thinking about removing those four icons at the bottom and just have those notifications show up. When you scroll to the right to access the application icons then you can have those four icons show up again. Just my two cents.
There is an app for android quite like this:
http://slidescreenhome.com/
webOS 2 does this it’s called exposition.
http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre2/index.html#feature_touchstone
Do more while charging with Exhibition.
Run new apps designed specifically for the Touchstone Charging Dock.2 Exhibition launches when you place your phone on the dock, showing you anything from today’s agenda to a slideshow of your Facebook® photos. Exhibition will work with compatible apps on your phone and more coming soon to the App Catalog.
this is very much like intelliscreen… though yours is very clean looking
As someone above stated, I think you apple nerds just need to get androids. This is a great effort, but it’s also sad when you think about how Apple can pretty easily crush it by refusing entry to the AppStore.
So… now that the new version of Cydget is out and supports iOS 4.x, i tried installing Elements, again. And i still get the same errors as before.
Clock does not show up, and the titles on Email, Phone, SMS do not show AND it does not pull data to be displayed on home screen like number of emails, missed calls etc.
So what am I doing wrong and what do I have to do to fix this?
//FEcph
Great foresight by the crew at Teehan & Lax to produce this concept back in 2009! (way before Apple implemented their virtually identical version in iOS 5) Awesome work guys!
Great concept! And today it’s indeed really great interface design after Apple WWDC iOS5 announce with it LockScreen. Congratulations, guys!
Your version of Home looks much better, then Apple
Real Nice…too bad Apple would never make the possibility the user to change the welcome screen.
Android FTW! ;)
Amazing! This is exactly what I’d need!
Crazy remembering this now, since this is basically the new notifications pane that iOS 5 brought to the table. Good work coming up with this so long ago. We finally got it!
I totally agree with umuthan. Unfortunately, they have implemented it. Now I’m trying to find out (that’s the reason why I got here) how to disable the notifications on the home screen in iOS 5: I really hate it! If I wanted an Android phone, I’d have bought one. :(
this ones too goood man…
is this app available for iphone 4 ???
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