Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

John E Inman

Joshua Santangelo

Darren David

Luis Eduardo Cabrerra-Condon

Ralf Groene

Anthony Reed

Panos Costa Panay

Sharon Drasnin

Jeffrey J Johnson

Steve Seixeiro

Luis Eduardo Cabrera-Cordon

Michael D McCormack

Luis Eduardo Cabrerra-Cordon

Lon Charles Lundgren, Jr

User experience adaptation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a connection portion configured to be removably physically and communicatively with a computing device, a housing physically connected to the connection portion and providing an outer surface having one or more characteristics that are viewable by a user, and memory disposed within the housing and configured to communicate data to the computing device via the connection portion, the data usable by the computing device to dynamically adapt a user interface displayable by a display device of the computing device to mimic the one or more physical characteristics of the housing.

User experience adaptation

Various embodiments are described that are related to displaying search requests on an interactive display device. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method including receiving a search request input via a search request control displayed on the interactive display device, spawning a search result label spaced from the search request control, the search result label being a moveable element, and displaying the search result, the search result being spatially tethered to the search result label so that the search result moves to follow a movement of the search result label.

Presentation of search results

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

Display screen with graphical user interface

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John E Inman