Microsoft unleashes ZenZui: Tile-based mobile UI
Launched today at CTIA, ZenZui was incubated by Microsoft’s internal VC program. It’s an appealing UI platform (shown on right) that assembles a number of tiles that the user can “zoom” left, right, up and down. It’s an old concept. Until now mobile devices didn’t have the horsepower to do this.
The basic principle is that if you place the user in the center of the grid, you reduce the number of steps to find something. In the ZenZui screenshot you’re one step away from 4 apps. If this was a linear list – you’d have to scroll four times to access the fourth item.
The “big blue dot” concepts shown below were shown at the CHI conference last year. It will be interesting to try out ZenZui in a production environment.
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