At the end of 2020, when the domestic custom system has almost undergone a round of changes, although the OriginOS that came out of the sky inevitably gives people a feeling of "coming late", the answer it handed over at that time is still surprising, and if you look at OriginOS at that time from the current perspective, it is not difficult to find that its transformation ideas and implementation paths in the launcher layout, desktop widgets (widgets) and custom styles are even a little predictable: desktop widgets in iOS and The Android ecosystem has regained importance, and personalized expression has become a major theme in Android 12...
OriginOS' refactoring of the launcher home screen is impressive
In 2021, Huarong mesh, atomic components, deformers, these are the most eye-catching features in OriginOS and quickly become the iconic features of vivo mobile phones, what polishing and innovation will be ushered in?
OriginOS Ocean, which just debuted on December 9, has once again blown up such a new wind in the custom system camp, just as it jumped out of the regular "version number" framework naming method.
Play with "symbols" and make the system into a magazine
Friends who still have an impression of the OriginOS review released by the minority last year should know that OriginOS has left a lot of small problems to worry about while drastically transforming the desktop launcher of the vivo mobile phone system, the most obvious of which is naturally the separation in the overall design style of the system: the new experience of Huarong grid and atomic component construction requires a large number of third-party adaptations to support, and the deformer, although it is very meticulous, still does not deal with some design details. Other parts other than the starter lack the sanding and polishing to match it...
At the end of the day, while OriginOS is very ingenious in concepts such as Huarong meshes and atomic components, they need a design language that unifies the entire OriginOS. In my opinion, this is exactly why vivo introduced a symbolic design language in OriginOS Ocean. The concept of this symbolic design language originated from the magazine, and the choice of reference objects is still very clever - similar to most of the content that needs to be carefully read and browsed, and reconstructing the system interface with the idea of typography design is naturally one of the shortcuts to order and beauty.
Taking fonts as an example, compared with fonts that have hardly changed much before, OriginOS Ocean has used at least 3 different fonts this time, and the font selection and layout methods in different system applications are different, but they can all fit well with their corresponding content presentation scenarios.
For example, the right-aligned poster layout of the "About the Phone" interface in the system settings, with different font sizes and thicknesses, makes the original boring configuration parameters become hierarchical, and can focus on the key information that deserves attention at a glance; the camera application presents advanced camera functions through special fonts, giving more technology to HDR switches, AI filters and zoom shooting operations; the Chinese and numbers of the calendar, settings, control center and other interfaces also use similar font selection and typography ideas.
Magazine font selection and interface layout, so that OriginOS Ocean is full of layering, but also lively, interspersed with labels and symbols, further strengthen the system interface tips and emphasis on the part, understand the web layout, graphic typesetting editing or slideshow production friends, see these details should feel a little kind.
These different color tags, symbols and fonts are combined to make the overall look and feel of OriginOS Ocean more neat and refreshing, and also make the original rigid system interface more lively, playful and affinity. As I jump from system application to application, I often have a glimmer of anticipation for the interface I'll see next.
It is worth mentioning that although OriginOS Ocean is more bold in color selection than the old version, the system color scheme has kept up with the trend and introduced an automatic color change system similar to Google Material You global dynamic color. In addition to the standard three color themes, users can also use the color absorption mode, the system will automatically absorb the color of the static wallpaper to match, and actively switch to the corresponding solid color icon.
In the overall experience, OriginOS Ocean feels more like a "complete version" than the version a year ago, and the edges and corners encountered in the previous experience process are more mature and more complete under the packaging of this symbolic and magazine-style design language. The only problem is that the font style is too varied but lacks clear selection criteria (at least not yet seen vivo's official design document), which is easy to bring users a temporary freshness, and it is easy to appear abrupt and even some contradictions.
Like color matching, how to further integrate fonts and symbols into the design language of OriginOS and form a system and specification is still one of the directions worth vivo's continued exploration.
Overflowing the "Force" of the home screen, bringing more possibilities
In the OriginOS 1.0 experience, we mentioned three important concepts: Huarong mesh, atomic components, and deformers. These three concepts are what sets OriginOS apart from other custom systems, but they all become the "ceiling" of OriginOS – they never jumped out of the home screen.
Happily, the OriginOS framework built by these three concepts has been further refined in this OriginOS Ocean. In short, the concepts of Huarong grid, atomic system, etc., which we were familiar with in the past, have finally got rid of the shackles of the main screen framework and further expanded to more system interfaces such as notifications and lock screens.
Taking the lock screen as an example, in the past few years, the lock screen we have experienced can be said to be the same, time, notification, a shortcut function entrance in the lower left and lower right, Android, iOS are the same. OriginOS Ocean borrowed the concept of atomic components to make a "zero-level" interactive innovation in the lock screen design, dividing the bottom of the lock screen into five, and then piling up areas such as atomic walkman, application fast entry, and system key information with the unlock operation like a building block.
The visual effect still does not jump out of the above-mentioned magazine and poster style, and the scope of operation takes into account the current situation of large-screen equipment, which is concentrated in the lower area of the screen.
Atomic lock screen
In these operating areas, friends who like to listen to songs on their phones should like the Atomic Walkman module, which occupies nearly 30% of the area. In addition to vivo's i music application, the Atomic Walkman is compatible with mainstream media playback apps such as QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, Himalaya, etc., and can integrate functions such as quick switching, cutting songs and even reading lyrics in the lock screen page according to the actual use object, simplifying the operation that originally needed to enter the App to be completed only on the lock screen, and also breaking the initial limitation of atomic components limited to desktop use.
However, I personally think that its presentation effect on the lock screen can also be better integrated with the lock screen interface, more seamless, and the current pop-up card design with shadows inevitably looks a bit abrupt.
In addition to music, the concept of personalized customization is still enough to be emphasized in this set of lock screen design. The application quick entrance allows users to set individually according to their actual needs, such as friends who want to have friendly communication with the editors at any time and anywhere can put the instant messaging application in the lower left corner, and friends with instant accounting needs can put the accounting application in the upper right corner...
Quick Start provides up to two long presses to reach the target
In the unlock block, OriginOS Ocean also reserves two shortcut channels for the fingerprint recognition area, we can set up in the "Settings > Desktop, Lock Screen and Wallpaper > Lock Screen Settings > Origin Lock Screen Customization > Lock Screen Fingerprint Icon > Quick Start", you can add WeChat scan, WeChat payment code, WeChat ride code, Alipay scan, Alipay ride code and epidemic prevention health code in the fingerprint recognition area. These are all functions that everyone needs to use at a high frequency in their daily lives.
It is worth mentioning that OriginOS Ocean has another ingenuity here - it integrates the small window interaction that has been very popular in the custom system in the past two years, and the corresponding interface will be presented in a pop-up style in line with the overall visual style of OriginOS Ocean after long pressing the shortcut launch icon, saving a step of application jumping operation, which can be described as clever.
It can be said that it is a very clever implementation
In OriginOS 1.0, the atomic component is the concept that can most directly reflect the concept of "zero level", and the user can complete many operations in the highly interactive widget, such as completing the hourly and weekly meteorological information access through simple swipes and clicks, adding and managing events and reminders through the Jovi atomic component, and quickly invoking the camera function through the "lens package" expanded by the camera icon in the Huarong grid...
In OriginOS Ocean, the categories of atomic components have increased and the styles have been enriched. Among them, the most noteworthy is the support of some unofficial apps, such as Alipay, Weibo, etc., which provide atomic component adaptation.
What's more, personal favorite atomic notifications that provide dynamic information based on the system and user context also have more forms in OriginOS Ocean.
Atomic notifications that provide a variety of convenient information
On the one hand, its notification content in the original express delivery information, travel flight information, hotel information, reminders on the basis of the addition of taxi information, weather conditions and more life reminders; on the other hand, the atomic notification that originally existed only in the desktop component can now highlight the key information at the top of the notification center, or directly display the download progress and SMS verification code in the status bar, the effect is similar to the key permission call reminders seen in other systems, intuitive and eye-catching.
Finally, for young users who prefer to show their personality and express themselves, keywords such as uniformity and order may never be the right answer, and many friends like Android precisely because of its high degree of customization. OriginOS Ocean's deformer still provides a channel for this part of the user: the icon size supports three levels of adjustment, the icon style supports the free conversion between exquisite and simple, you can take color from the wallpaper like the Android 12 native system, you can also switch three different system themes...
Of course, the most surprising thing about OriginOS Ocean in terms of personal customization is that vivo still came up with high-quality, high-level live wallpapers this year.
Similar to last year's garden walk series, the new City of Tomorrow and The Encounter of Light series still requires us to use the number of real-life sports steps to "cultivate", the former can do a hundred steps and a scene, let us unlock the Chongqing style under the clouds step by step, and the latter is deeply cooperative with "Light Encounter", moving the beautiful scenery of the game directly to the desktop and lock screen, while also supporting character dressup and LAN partners, just like a simplified version of the "Light Encounter" game.
The wallpaper effect when completing the step number goal talks about the system experience, which is inseparable from the native application and ecology
I've always believed that the starting point for a better system experience isn't for everyone to cheer for a "skinning", but for manufacturers to start polishing native applications. In addition to design innovations and interactive optimizations, native apps in OriginOS Ocean have also brought me some surprises.
Atomic Reading is a new native app in OriginOS Ocean and a subscription-based feed app. From a design point of view, Atomic Reading implements the design style of OriginOS Ocean well, and adds more and bolder graphic typesetting designs according to the application attributes, aggregating information in multiple fields such as society, finance, technology, entertainment, and life, while the page layout will also change according to the different browsing content.
Among them, the annotation function of atomic reading is quite interesting, and its interaction method is very intuitive, and you only need to drag the label icon to the content area you want to label.
Atomic reading can also be linked with atomic notes to achieve rapid recording, which is a good grafting of reading note workflows between native apps. In addition, "Atomic Notes" can also be used as a GTD tool or document center, because of the many text editing tools and design templates provided, paragraph segmentation, reference bubbles, atomic notes are also very compatible with OriginOS Ocean.
In addition to atomic reading and atomic notes, vivo has optimized and redesigned many other native apps, such as health centers, calendars, clocks, any one of which can be said to be a truly "small and beautiful" app, which can provide hierarchical data presentation under the overall design framework of the system (such as displaying key information through exquisite desktop atomic components), and provide necessary functional support in the field of their respective services. The most important thing is that all tool applications are free from advertising and marketing content interference, which can be said to be valuable.
Since the health center is mentioned, the "cross-border linkage" of vivo in the field of health is also very real. The partnership with Omron allows us to bind Omron's blood pressure devices directly through the health center and then track blood pressure data through our mobile phones, which is very practical for both self-health monitoring and family elders.
Supported Omron sphygmomanometer devices
Similarly, if the child at home wears a "little genius" watch, OriginOS Ocean can now also directly view the child's positioning and safety status through the desktop component; if the child has a mobile phone, parents can also bind through the growth guardian function, and after binding, they can further check the child's mobile phone usage status, in addition to the common device usage, the growth guardian function can even correct bad mobile phone usage habits (such as playing mobile phones in the dark light) in time.
Little Genius and Growth Guardian Widget Summary
If OriginOS is Vivo's rethinking of the Android system customization, then OriginOS Ocean is a more complete answer sheet that Vivo gives to users. In this answer sheet, new features and native applications have become more holistic under the guidance of a unified design language, and the innovation direction of the custom system has a more flexible and less formulaic answer.
But as Android users, we should be even happier when OriginOS Ocean turns a concept from "creative" to more practical functionality and even a basic framework, and even the system application that you may not use very often is full of design and interaction details... We know that the aesthetic and functional thinking of domestic customized systems has not stopped.
May this new wind continue to blow.
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