Designer Cody Sanfilippo put together this concept video of how Spotlight on iOS could work, and it's quite impressive. The current implementation of Spotlight for iOS (accessed by swiping left on your iOS device's homescreen) is fairly useless; while the search is very thorough, the list of items you get is not very helpful, and you generally end up seaching through the list almost as long as it would have taken you to just go find whatever you're looking for in your actual iPhone.
But Sanfilippo's concept wisely separates the found items out into a filtered window, and then crams as much information about each found item as possible there. There's even a solid bit of functionality: You can not only access apps and other information directly f
