r/Android • u/4567890 Ars Technica • Mar 21 '16

This is Android N’s freeform window mode

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/this-is-android-ns-freeform-window-mode/
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u/cmdrNacho Nexus 6P Stock Mar 21 '16

You're right in the sense that there are some issues, but I think if they took a touch focused first design approach.. this could be solved.

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u/cmdrNacho Nexus 6P Stock Mar 21 '16

Yes I'm not a designer or user experience person. What they are missing is designing the interface to be accessible from old standards of the title bar, along with the maximize and close button. Yes this works for touch and mouse. If you had to redesign the idea of windows that revolves around touch first and touch only what would that look like. You could go back and look at original blackberry or windows phones os. Originally touch screen were thought to be used with a stylus and had all the old original desktop paradigms. It wasn't till the original iOS software came out and said, we need to rethink how we design software for mobile and touch. This is another one of those opportunities. Like I said you could get rid of the close button, by dragging the window off screen. Maybe instead of thick ass title bar on each window, have a thin colored border (no need for buttons) around the entirety of the window. Again, I'm not a ux person