Spotlight

This Spotlight for iOS concept from Cody Sanfilippo looks pretty good.

Personally, for whatever reason, I don’t use the current iOS Spotlight very much at all. In fact, on both my iPhone and my iPad I use a home screen layout that puts Spotlight two swipes away instead of the traditional one. Where the setup Apple assume you will use is:

• Spotlight - Primary apps - Additional screens

I actually use this as:

• Spotlight - Utility apps - Primary apps - Games - Additional screens

Of course, I sacrifice things like having spotlight one swipe away and having a single click of the home button take me to my primary app screen, but I gain a whole extra screen of apps that is only one swipe from my ‘home screen’.

Back to the Spotlight concept from Cody, I think my favorite part is the idea that Spotlight search results should be more like Siri search results. One of the best parts of Siri is that when she knows what you are asking about she presents the answer in a canned format that is specifically designed for that type of question. I think we’ll see that concept make its way into all types of search results in the near future.