It might look like on the iPhone address book

Here's a paradox that exists with the iPhone phonebook: I can be counted on the fingers of one hand the number of times when I use the app Phone in your iPhone to find a friend in your contact list, but I primarily use the iPhone to communicate with people who are in this list. Whether it's my regular friends in iMessage or WhatApp, familiar to Snapchat, my family on Facebook or my colleagues in the Mail.

With my communications, manage several different applications, address book, with its traditional sheet of phone numbers, can be out of date. In this case, the main benefit of the consolidation of the people with whom I communicate in an easily accessible place - still working.

Therefore, as an exercise in design, I designed a couple of ideas of how to turn this seemingly static list of people in a little more ambitious project.

Invisible address book

I know that from a practical point of view it is a big challenge, but let's assume that all of my accounts social networking, whether or Snapchat WhatApp, integrated into the settings in the same way as it is now, and Facebook Twitter.

Apple can centralize all of these accounts under my Apple ID. The bottom line is that with all this information stored in the cloud, my phone would know where all my friends from every application that I use to communicate with them. The below published concepts, I redid the list of contacts with whom I meet and that are currently integrated into the phone application, and integrate them further into iPhone navigation layer.

And that's what happened

You know the search that opens when you move down the screen "Home"? When you once again run it, instead of auto-select the search field and launch the keyboard (left screenshot), once there is a list of contacts (right screenshot).

A simple press of the portrait of a friend will open the details, where instead of the usual list of items, I would have had access to all the applications that I use to communicate with that friend. So, on the "Home" (left), I would have all my applications, and on the "other" screen are only those applications through which I speak with him (right).

notice

If Scroll down a little further, after the list of applications will be is the center of a notification based on a particular friend. It turns out that the main center of notifications (on the left) I displayed all the latest activity in applications and on the "friend" I'm going to have, say, the last 100 notifications from this friend in one simple list (on the right). This will be the place I where I could easily find messages from your mail or mention in Instagram last week.

It turns out the address book becomes invisible and somewhat ubiquitous navigation on my iPhone. What do you think?

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