Absolutely fantastic long article on user interface design for iPad applications from Matt Gemmell. Covers UI conventions and functional and aesthetic considerations that you should keep in mind if you want to create iPad apps (much of it is relevant to tablet devices per se), such as: differences in designing for iPad vs iPhone, using master/detail in your iPad intefaces, modal interfaces (appropriate for iPad in Gemmell’s opinion) resisting feature bloat, implications of two-handed input on iPad, etc. We need more articles like this that make a serious attempt to understand the tablet user interface, since we will all be spending a lot more time interacting with flat, handheld devices in the future.
iPad UI Design Thoughts
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im loving the ipad personally. what do you think of it now? was it upto your standards?