Patent ID: 8510666

Claim:
A method for providing a telephone user interface comprising: receiving a first selection of a first telephone interface control from a plurality of telephone interface controls; receiving a first location associated with the first telephone interface control, the location comprising an X-Y coordinate location of the first telephone interface control on a display panel; receiving a first indication of an action to be performed when the first telephone interface control is executed; receiving a first touch feedback parameter that is associated with the first telephone interface control, the first touch feedback parameter comprising a type of haptic feedback and the first touch feedback parameter is defined such that the type of haptic feedback is generated based on the action to be performed when the first telephone interface control is executed; prompting a user to submit a second selection of a second telephone interface control from the plurality of telephone interface controls; a processor generating a first telephone interface layout, the first telephone interface layout comprising the first selection of the first telephone interface control, the first location associated with the first telephone interface control, the first indication of the action to be performed when the first telephone interface control is executed, and the first touch feedback parameter associated with the first telephone interface control, the first telephone interface layout defining a first image; storing the first telephone interface layout in a non-transitory computer readable medium; and outputting the first telephone interface layout to a touch sensitive screen of a customizable telephone such that the first image defining the first telephone interface layout is displayed on the touch sensitive screen, wherein the outputting of the first telephone interface layout comprises printing the first image on a physical printed medium, the first image having the first telephone interface control illustrated thereon; wherein a depression of the touch sensitive screen of the customizable telephone at the first location of the first telephone interface control executes the first telephone interface control and causes the action associated with the first telephone interface control to be performed; and attaching the physical printed medium to the touch sensitive screen and providing a data file that associates the first telephone interface layout, the physical printed medium secured to the touch sensitive screen, and the first location associated with the first telephone interface control on the touch sensitive screen.