Posts Tagged ‘ iPhone ’

Last week I attended Geek Ninja Battle night in Brighton where the subject discussed was web Vs native design for mobile devices. It was a great night with some healthy debate by Aral Balkan, Andy Clarke, Remy Sharp and Sarah Parmenter on the pros and cons of both practices. A comment that stuck in my head was made by iPhone and iPad UI design guru Sarah Parmenter who described her mums experience of the UI on the iPad. Sarah’s mum was described as not being particularly tech savvy but had been using her iPad for a short time to access her favourite websites. She would manually type in the address into the Safari browser each time until Sarah showed her how to add a bookmark to the site as an icon on the Springboard. Since Sarah’s mum was now accessing the site via an icon she would also instinctively swipe left and right with her finger to try and browse next and previous pages as if using an app. For me, this is a perfect example of a successful User Interface design in that it’s mechanics are instinctive to us humans.