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Reaching the Android people
With Google Glass coming soon, it really sucks that the Android UI is not to my liking. It has a billion menus and it's all sorts of confusing.
Now let's say my ideal UI is to mass liking and it would immediately become a huge success if adapted and I had every little detail about the design planned out. Next I wanna get it worked into Android, right?
Now there are two ways I can think of to achieve this. The first is to make it for Gaia, WebOS, Plasma Active, or some other similar project (and for the sake of simplicity, the Gaia people love it and change a bunch of stuff to incorporate it into their UI). Google sees this, thinks maybe they could benefit from doing the same thing, changes a bunch of shit and does it.
The other way is making a Kickstarter for a mod of Android with this new UI. It'll have to be super hacky and won't be as good as if it was made by the Android developers, but on the flip side, it can easily target non-nerds (It's pretty safe to assume no non-nerds have tried Gaia), it can prove there is demand (After all, someone paid for it) and it's already being built on top of Android (so same target, same technologies powering it). Doing it this way, I think it'll be more likely the Android developers would take note, and maybe use some of the same ideas.
I am making this thread to ask you smart people of FRCF if you believe method #2 can work.
Now let's say my ideal UI is to mass liking and it would immediately become a huge success if adapted and I had every little detail about the design planned out. Next I wanna get it worked into Android, right?
Now there are two ways I can think of to achieve this. The first is to make it for Gaia, WebOS, Plasma Active, or some other similar project (and for the sake of simplicity, the Gaia people love it and change a bunch of stuff to incorporate it into their UI). Google sees this, thinks maybe they could benefit from doing the same thing, changes a bunch of shit and does it.
The other way is making a Kickstarter for a mod of Android with this new UI. It'll have to be super hacky and won't be as good as if it was made by the Android developers, but on the flip side, it can easily target non-nerds (It's pretty safe to assume no non-nerds have tried Gaia), it can prove there is demand (After all, someone paid for it) and it's already being built on top of Android (so same target, same technologies powering it). Doing it this way, I think it'll be more likely the Android developers would take note, and maybe use some of the same ideas.
I am making this thread to ask you smart people of FRCF if you believe method #2 can work.
Comments
Also, I'm very confused with this entire post.
In other words, not very well thought out (or at least explained).
Unless someone here wants to fund me. If you do, let me know...
Apply definitely will always have the superior ecosystem, but I'd like to try getting the best possible product for my core features and letting the other stuff fall by the wayside.
With the release of the iPhone 5 I wouldn't call it the best hardware. It's the biggest. The display is significantly better than the panel on the Galaxy S III, which is a pile of poorly-calibrated, PenTile-addled garbage. The processor is fast enough to carry WP8, though the GPU is an Adreno 225, which is a whole generation behind the parts found in the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III.
I tell people that there are only two phones on the market today: the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy Nexus (in a few days the Nexus 4, and 4.7" monstrosity from LG). Nothing else is worth considering. With so much on the horizon this is bound to change, but these are your two options today.
Regarding the first post: check out MiUI, and Android fork which aims to smooth over some of the UI weirdness in android. http://miuiandroid.com/
UI design is very hard to do. Implementing that design next to impossible. And I'm not even talking about a design that everyone will like, I'm just talking about a design that you'll like and getting it done exactly the way you want it.
If you really, really want this I suggest you pick one single thing that irks you about the Android UI and try to fix it to your liking and perfect it. Make it so that it actually works, is efficient, and is beautifull. This will be difficult enough but not too difficult to do on the side of anything else you are doing to earn a living.
However, if you want sleep more than this one single thing, you're not going to make it. If you want to read comics more than this thing then you're not going to make it. If you want to hang out with your friends more... well you get the point.
I have had the fortune to know a couple of people that are passionate about what they do. I almost never see them. They seldom hang out with their friends because they work and work and work, and they get very, very good at what they do.
Designing a new Android UI that gets widespread recognition and adoption is not going to start with IGN going "look how much money this kickstarter got". It has to start with you not posting to this forum for the next six months because you are too busy doing real shit!