I hate smartphone lock screens. Not the concept itself, but the many implementations. Everything I’ve seen is too minimal or too complex. This is prime real estate we are talking about. Surely we can do better. Since it’s been on my mind a lot lately I thought it would be fun to redesign the lock screen starting with first principles. Note: I’m a researcher at Nokia by day. This blog and the opinions on it have nothing to do with my work at Nokia. All ideas are my own and do not reflect anything Nokia is working on. This post also does not reflect a desire on my part to actually build a new lock screen for any OS. This is purely a design exercise to explore the space and see if we can do better.

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