A couple of months ago, we saw a beautiful concept from Kévin Eugène that reimagined Siri for iPhone with a new intuitive and much less intrusive design that ditched the current full screen takeover. Today, he’s shared a super sharp new concept for a redesigned Siri, Slide Over, multitasking, and Dock for the upcoming new iPad Pro models. Head below to check it out!

In his latest concept shared on UX Collective, Eugène has brought some of the fantastic ideas from his last concept to the larger bezel-less screens we’re expecting Apple to announce next week.

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Non-intrusive & efficient Siri

First off, with no Home button, the concept includes the idea of a Siri button available in the Dock. Eugène believes this would be more practical than using one of the iPad Pros physical buttons and would complement activating Siri via voice.

Here’s how the improved parallel help Siri would look in use on a new iPad:

This is a much more pleasant experience and more efficient as it demonstrates how easy you can make use of Siri results to drag and drop into a document or app.

The concept also notes that Siri results could be expanded to fill the full height of the screen by pulling down on the Home indicator style handle.

Another feature would be Siri results hiding in the top right corner with users having to option to swipe to expand.

Improved Slide Over

Eugène shared two main problems with the current Slide Over implementation on iPad.

Here’s his solution called “Flow”:

Truthfully, I think I have never used that feature. I can see two reasons as to why:

  • The first reason is probably because it blocks me from interacting with my main apps below. Slide Over has clearly been designed for temporary actions and most of the time, when I want to open a third app, it’s not meant to be just temporary.
  • The second one is because Slide Over is summoned by swiping from the right edge of the screen. The thing is, I never know what app has been put there, and the interface does not give any hint about it. So clearly, it never occurs to me to swipe from the right as I never know what to expect (and sometimes, nothing happens as Slide Over is disabled).

Eugène notes how the handy gestures would work to switch from a fullscreen app to a Flow as well.

Reimagined multitasking on iPad

The concept includes what multitasking would look like in the context of Flow replacing Slide Over.

New Dock

Lastly, this concept offers a new Dock to work well with the Flow interface. To solve the issue of dragging content between apps in Flows that have many apps, the Dock supports dragging and dropping apps to pin them temporarily for easy access.

As you’ve probably spotted by now, the new Dock also includes a dedicated clipboard app to help manage multitasking more efficiently.

For a closer look at the full concept, check it out at UX Collective. What do you think? Would you like to see changes like this with the new iPads?