TAT Juggle UI Previewed on Video–pocketnow Exclusive First Look

Chuong Nguyen | June 2, 2009 10:12 AM

We posted a while back about the TAT phone concept, which is a neat UI that pans around to show open applications and allow for easy copy and paste. We’d like to think of TAT as the best of the applications card on the Palm Pre, Android’s simplicity, and a desktop-like UI experience of Acer’s 3D interface. The new interface is called the Juggle UI.

The mash-up Juggle UI created by TAT is quite revolutionary in that it creates a simple user experience. Users can pan around their “deskptop” on the main screen for open apps, like the Pre and Acer’s 3D interface. This way, switching between a browser, an email, and other applications is relatively intuitive. There is even a clipboard where you can easily hold images and drag them over to the side with your fingers. It works in a similar way as the Clipboard in the desktop version of Microsoft Office in that it is a repository of saved clippings. To paste what you had previously clipped, just swipe your finger over the edge of the device, much like the Pre, and the Clipboard will pop up so you can drag what you had saved into an Email or application.

Check out our exclusive first look in the video! Hit the break for the TAT press release.

Juggle UI Press Release

Today, several smartphones support copy, paste and multitasking. However, these features are often difficult to use or unattractively designed. TAT believes that multitasking can be a more natural and useful part of the user experience.

The Juggle UI allows users to conveniently get an overview of all open applications. By using touch surfaces outside the screen, switching between different applications and transferring content between them becomes easy.

Juggle UI is seamless, so open applications hover in the extended space just below the idle screen. Open applications light up when new events occur and they emit light spheres that carry notifications into the idle screen. The user can access the open applications at any time by swiping a finger over the touch surface to the right.

When using an application in full screen mode, content such as images and text can be copied and stored on a clipboard under the left side of the screen. Content from the clipboard can be accessed at any time by swiping a finger over the touch surface to the left.

Multitasking is an opportunity to design novel gestures and interaction. Juggle tasks and content in style!

You can also learn more about TAT by going to their web page.

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