Abstract: A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying a virtual keyboard including a plurality of virtual keys each corresponding to one character of a plurality of characters. The method further includes receiving a first input of one or more characters in a sequential order, and generating one or more predicted sets of characters based on the first input, wherein each predicted set of characters includes a last character of the sequential order and a subsequent character generated by a processing circuit. The method also includes displaying each of the predicted sets of characters in a portion of the touchscreen different from the virtual keyboard. The method further includes displaying one or more new virtual keys that each correspond to one of the predicted sets of characters in the virtual keyboard, wherein each of the new virtual keys has a location based on the first input.

Abstract: Methods and visual analysis (VA) engines for dynamically modifying layout of user-selectable elements of a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application. An VA engine of a hardware computer determines a usage pattern of a plurality of user-selectable elements of a GUI of an application. The VA engine determines a number of user-selectable elements relative to a total number of the plurality of user-selectable elements that are selected more frequently than other user-selectable elements based on the usage patterns. The VA engine selects a visual aesthetic pattern from among a set of visual aesthetic patterns based on the number of user-selectable elements. The VA engine dynamically modifies layout, during runtime of the application, of the user-selectable elements of the GUI based on the visual aesthetic pattern that was selected. The VA engine displays the graphical user interface with the modified layout of the user-selectable elements of the graphical user interface.