>>1761617If you notice on the image there's actually a lot of free space on the left side so I'd probably put the icons down there.
If you want to learn I think it'd be useful to show you some good examples (pic related). Commentary below.
1. Themed banner. It's a simple no frills banner, but by taking the texture from the image to fill it looks amazingly natural. Font choice is questionable (I would have preferred a solid one) but it's a great banner example.
2. Another banner. Notice the layered effect with the girl covering the banner. Most of the time this looks great and it was used in the previous screen as well. Colors match up well, clock placement makes use of the space and the circular battery to fit in with the icons is a nice touch.
3. Minimal banner. Taking shades of green from the image and putting it on a nice bordered banner. Just putting on a plain, rectangular banner often looks pretty lazy, but something simple like a border improves it greatly.
4. Character-centric, minimalist banners. Colors taken from the girl look great. Notice the use of layering here; it's very good. Banners are consistent and span across all three pages. Left is a bit too full and font consistency would be nice but overall it's still a great rice.
5. Wall-centric minimalism. Pixel theme from the wall well executed over the icons and widget. Usually minimalist styles tend to shy away from widgets to avoid clutter like you said, but sometimes the wall has too much empty space like here, so the clock widget is used to fill the space nicely. It's also more functional to at least know the time and battery status.
6. Wall-centric minimalism. Unlike the previous one, the theme isn't pulled from the wall. Instead, a simple widget is overlayed to keep the wall visible. An interesting shape is used here, and it fills the empty space well.
tl;dr try to get a theme going when ricing to make everything look natural. If using a banner add a border or something to keep it interesting.
