Hi everyone,
But we weren't discussing Snake! So I started up another thread here to continue the discussion.
So to continue, I want my Nokia to feel like a Nokia. Not just in how the hardware looks and feels, but also in how the software looks and feels to use. Software-wise I'd love to see HMD make a UI for their phones which follows on from the Nokia heritage, an evolution from Symbian Belle (widgets), Meego (the Swipe UI), Asha/X (the FastLane), the Z Launcher and even Windows Live Tiles.
Now I know that there are many people who buy the current Nokia phones because they want a "pure" Android experience (whatever that really is) so they won't agree with anything I post here. Because of that I imagine that HMD won't do this, at least not as part of their stock OS, but I would love to see this available as an optional install from the app store.
Here's a mockup or my proposed UI:
Note that this is almost identical to the Sailfish OS UI, so it may be quicker for HMD to work with Jolla to get Sailfish OS on modern Nokia phones!

Cheers

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Right now I'm using a launcher similar to that, it's called Niagara launcher and it has that same prediction based application offering on the home screen but its app drawer is different.
Actually it doesn't have an app drawer you just have swipe from the edges of the screen to open a vertical app list.Here's a screen shot;
When things come to the fast reach to the apps this ui is faster than the z launcher ui.
And I have some interesting ui ideas too. For example having that panaromic gallery, media hub would be great here's a rough drawing.
As you can see its pretty clean and futuristic, unlike the buttonfest we have right now with the Google's material design ui.
I mean you don't have to add a completely dedicated page for it, with a live tile like popup widget you can very well get the same result with less page.
See?
And I think the notifications are should pop up right under the clock-date wheather widget.
İ developed this concept with a couple of different ui styles; swipe navigation and transitions of meego, live feed of meego and wp live tiles (I've merged them together), app drawer and menu style of Niagara launcher which resembles the wp all applications page a lot.
First home page arrangement;
We got 3 areas: category 1 interaction areas; the type of interaction that you do actively one or two times at day such as opening your alarms or calendar but also the type of interaction you do all the times passively such as looking for the time and date and weather.
Category 2 interaction areas; the type of interaction you do just actively by choice, such as making a call via pop up window of phone icon or opening your browser, or media player.
And category 3 interaction; type of interaction that is actually requires your active attention for that time, such as your new notifications, emails, missed calls or changing the current playing song in your media player app.
When things come to arranging these interactive areas it's easy actually you have to put most passive ones to on top of the screen, the area you can't reach easily but you cab take a glance at easily. That's why you need to put the time and wheather widgets ton there (and wheather widgets should show the next 5days' forecast trough the widgets, theres no point of checking the current wheather via widgets while you can already learn via looking at the outside)
Next we got cat2 interactive area; your most used apps, such as phone, browser, media apps;these apps' icons doesn't required to be on your direct line of sight but you have to be able to easily reach them with your thumb, when you use them you want to use-reach the necessary app as easy as possible so putting them on to bottom of the display would be better; best way to reach with your thumb whatever size display your phone has.
Next we got cat3; Everyone pays attention to their missed calls, new notifications and the current music that they are listening more than the other apps at that specific time, they interact with the new notifications and stuff more than any other apps at that moment, either they replay the current new what'sapp messages, call back their missed calls or opening up and reading the email that they just got or regardless of any other of these clear all the notifications.
So putting these elements on the most active area of the screen is the best; right in the middle of your screen, between the cat1 and 2 interaction areas, you cab really easily see and read them, and again easily touch and response or clear them.
Easy, simple, effective.
Way way better than what we have with Android, regardless of the oem version.
And all half interactive application icons on the menu should have the same gesture based pop up menus that Niagara launcher has; swipe right to open a mini menu such as your most called contacts on the phone icon or your latest messages on the what's app, or your playlists on the media player or display the latest notification you have.
The rest of navigation is pretty similar to the your new concept but slightly different.
Meego and fast lane was amazing in the past, the day they were introduced but right now the are kinda average and I suspect if they work as good as they did with their original platforms.
First recent apps should be opened via swiping up from the bottom of the display, its easy and everyone would know where it is.
Swiping from the right side to the middle of the screen should be a back key, swiping from the right low side to the top of the display should be a home gesture,and swiping from the right-upper side to the bottom should open the application list regardless of which app-page we are in.
I left the left side idle because you can't easily reach there.
But fear not lefties
Actually all of the gestures should be customizable. And those who want should be able to put the navigation buttons too.
Oh forgot the add the notifications won't be on the quick settings panel, it only slows down the user, you know? All that pull, to open the mini page you can't touch and pull again to brought it all the way down. Quick settings panel will be dedicated to change the quick settings such as usual connection, on of settings and audio volume levels and brightness and stuff.And displaying the current battery percentage and mAh. And storage.
Soo what do you think?
Swiping from the left while quick settings panel takes you to a scrollable event list like we had with the n9 and fast lane.
You're right about the fast lane, it was the next version of the live feed page of n9.
I know that fastlane shows the calendar notifications too, if you didn't see I added it in there too.
Actually this is just the default layout, every user should have an access to settings of this ui.
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The stock Android ui uses long press for the mini menu and I don't like it.
İt's not natural.
Check this @madbilly
This is how I want the UI to be. want icons to be Squircles but that shape wasn't available in Paint so made them like this for fun. The top notifications panel is a pain to reach with one hand so this can be useful. I forgot to add the navigation keys but that's the new gesture-based navigation introduced with Pie. also the notification icons for battery, messages, time, network, wifi, Bluetooth, etc will stay at the top as usual. Nokia can use the manual slider mechanism for the front-facing camera.
Nokia's design is always about simplicity. So, keeping only the most necessary function is the way to go.