Blur 1.0 Contacts List, A-Z Panel. The left panel displayed a global view of communications history (including texts, POP/IMAP emails, and calls). The right panel displayed the most recent status updates across all social networks. (Early 2009; launched on the CLIQ/DEXT)
Blur 1.0 Contact Detail Screen, Info Panel: Motorola was the first Android OEM to introduce a (proprietary) method for automatically combining contact data from multiple sources (e.g., Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, ActiveSync/Outlook) into a single view, removing duplicates. We also displayed the contact's most recent status update to lend context to the user about the contact's current happenings. (Early 2009; launched on the CLIQ/DEXT)
Blur 1.0 Contact Detail Screen, Info Panel: This view shows one example of every supported field in the screen. (Empty fields would be hidden if they had no data.) (Early 2009; launched on the CLIQ/DEXT)
Blur 2.0 Contacts List, History Panel: In Blur 2.0, we switched from the textual tabs at the bottom of the screen to red dots in the upper righthand corner to lend panel context. The History panel provided details about recent communications with one's entire social graph (e.g., SMS, email, social mail, calls). (Spring 2010; launched on the DROID X)
Blur 2.0 Contact List Screen, A-Z Panel: The default view of the Contacts app listed all contacts from any configured services (e.g., Gmail, ActiveSync/Outlook, Facebook, Twitter) alphabetically. (Spring 2010; launched on the DROID X)
Blur 2.0 Contact List Screen, Happenings Panel: This panel provided a quick overview of the most recent happenings in one's social circle. Status updates were listed in reverse chronological order from Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace. Recall that at this time, apps for those services were either unavailable or immature on Android. (Spring 2010; launched on the DROID X)
Blur 2.0 Contact Detail Screen, History Panel: This panel showed an integrated list of communications event history between the user and this contact. This feature was thought to be particularly appealing to enterprise users. (Spring 2010; launched on the DROID X)
Blur 2.0 Contact Detail Screen, Info Panel: The default view showed a single unified view of the contact's details from all integrated services (e.g., Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and ActiveSync/Outlook). Note the inclusion of the contact's most recent status update, which helped lend context to the user about that person's life. (Spring 2010; launched on the DROID X)
Blur 2.0 Contact Detail Screen, Happenings Panel: This panel showed the most recent status updates from all of the social networks associated with the contact, such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. Remember that at this time, these services either didn't have apps on Android at all or they were still immature. (Spring 2010; launched on the DROID X)
Blur Contact Edit Form. Notice how we merged editable fields for the same data from different services into a single form field, such as the Home phone number which was contained in both Exchange (Outlook) and Gmail.
Blur - Multi-Person Contact Picker Dialog: Various Motorola apps wanted to provide a service so that the user could select multiple Contact people at once, such as for modifying a Contact group or addressing an email. Android only offered a dialog for picking one Contact at a time, so we built our own.
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Motorola Contacts App (2009-2010)
I was the lead UI designer on the MOTOBLUR Contacts app versions 1.0 (CLIQ/DEXT, 2009) and 2.0 (DROID X, 2010). The Motorola Contacts app was extremely innovative for the time. It was the first Android OEM to provide a unified view of the user's social graph, combining records from Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, ActiveSync, etc., into a single view of the person. We also provided communications history and status updates at both the global and individual levels. By comparison, Palm WebOS with its similar Synergy features beat the CLIQ to market by a few months (Spring 2009) and Google built the unified social graph feature into Android 2.0 (Eclair) the following year (2010).
