Patent ID: 8922586

Claim:
A method for reducing a form factor of an electronic device, comprising: disposing a first user interface component in a housing of said electronic device such that a center axis thereof is at an angle relative to a plane that is perpendicular to a horizontal center axis of said electronic device, said angle exclusive of a ninety-degree angle; preventing a user from viewing a top portion of a second user interface component disposed in said housing of said electronic device by arranging the first and second user interface components relative to each other such that (1) a center axis of the second user interface component is parallel to said horizontal center axis of said electronic device and intersects a bottom portion of the first user interface component, and (2) only the top portion of the second user interface component is overlapped by the bottom portion of said first user interface component; preventing the user from viewing a bottom portion of the second user interface component by disposing a third user interface component in said housing of said electronic device and arranging the second and third user interface components relative to each other such that (1) a center axis of the third user interface component is parallel to said horizontal center axis of said electronic device and intersects the bottom portion of the first user interface component, (2) only a top portion of the third user interface component overlaps only the bottom portion of the second user interface component, and (3) a center axis of the third user interface component is offset from the center axis of the second user interface component.