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Design Competition Entry: Putty UI concept

The user:

Many touch screens require two hands to operate comfortably. Putty UI utilizes the 5-way navigation button that is seen on nearly all non-touch screen handsets, thus giving a seamless intuitive interaction requiring only one hand.

What it is:

Putty UI has 3 main components:

Putty:
-A universal experience between applications
-Allows for maximum visual real estate on the screen
-Faster navigation of applications
-Ability to move data seamlessly between applications
-To be used in one hand
-Allows “Motor memory� of an application, thus reducing the need to view the screen.

Passive putty:
-Using the putty as an ambient display to visualise data straight from content sources, such as stocks or weather data.

Gesture putty:
-Allows rapid access to applications via performing set gestures

Marek Pawlowski

Marek Pawlowski is the founder of MEX. Since 1995, he has focused the MEX business on helping digital industries to develop better, more profitable products through improved understanding of user behaviour with mobile devices and wireless networks. MEX is best known for its events, research and consulting, which balance commercial, technical and user insights to define the future of mobile user experience.

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