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How people really use the iPhone
- auston 18y agoHow many people participated?
- petergroverman 18y agoGreat find.
- DenisM 18y agoSurprisingly, article matches it's title. They actually did put camera and recorded how different users used iphone given specific tasks. This looks like good data to me, i'll go finish the slide deck.
- dangrover 18y agoThis is great! The thing is, though, for a lot of the "problems" they found with Apple's UI, fixing it would cause other problems. Such is the nature of design.
- shimi 18y agoThank you for sharing that! Pure gold!!!!
- briansmith 18y agoThis was awesome, but I recommend viewing the high-res PDF instead: http://www.createwithcontext.com/landing-iphone.html http://www.createwithcontext.com/landing-iphone.html Incidentally, Scribd and Slideshare have given me a newfound appreciation for Adobe Acrobat. A couple of years ago nobody would have said "I just want a good old PDF."
- alaskamiller 18y agoI love PDFs. I hate Acrobat.
- kirubakaran 18y agoI love xpdf.
- nailer 18y agoEvince is fine for me. What does xpdf do that Evince doesn't?
- rsheridan6 18y agoIt has a smaller footprint, if that matters to you.
- alextp 18y agoxpdf has better anti-aliasing in my computers, usually. Pdfs from jstor for example look awful under evince and ok on xpdf.
- timtrueman 18y agoWow, slide two was TERRIBLE! I couldn't read the text with that very distracting background, who does that?
- DeadlyBrad42 18y agoYeah. For a slide show investigating design, readability, and ease of use, the second slide seems a bit out of place. Luckily, the rest of it is easy to understand, and very useful and interesting.
- spohlenz 18y agoIt looks fine in the PDF. It seems like a translucent layer is missing in the slideshare version.
- timtrueman 18y agoOh that makes a lot more sense. Good catch.
- sh1mmer 18y agoI'd love to see more details of this or follow on research. They did an excellent job. None of the suggestions here would be surprising to a UX expert but having them in context is really helpful.
- avinashv 18y agoWow--it really surprised me how much I take for granted in interacting with a UI. The big piece of information for me was the placement of the buttons in Safari. Extremely interesting. The carrier in the images is T-Mobile; jailbroken iPhone?
- johns 18y agoOr T-Mobile Germany
- unalone 18y agoThe things that interested me were the comments that people made: the more specific pieces of information. Not having enough dexterity to manipulate the phone, for instance. I never would have thought about that. I also found the comment about not knowing album art slightly sad, even though I've had the same feeling before. It feels very slightly like the end to yet another music era.
- johns 18y agoYou can two finger tap to zoom out in Maps?! Frick. Did not know that. I suck at iPhone.
- unalone 18y agoI think that was their point: it's an incredibly small feature that doesn't advertise itself well. That was my first reaction too, though. I must admit.
- axod 18y agoOne thing that seems to get people is 2 finger to scroll divs/iframes in safari. Pretty intuitive when you think about it, but some don't. Especially when the scrollbars aren't obvious.
- markessien 18y agoIntuitive? I'm not sure you understand that word.
- axod 18y agoOK, what other method could you have to scroll a div/iframe? It was the first one that I thought might work, so I tried it. Unless I'm mistaken that made it intuitive for me. I do get your point though - for some people it's not obvious...
- jcl 18y agoWhy not use the same mechanism you use to scroll the main document window?
- axod 18y agobecause then if the iframe covers the whole screen, it'd be impossible to scroll the document?
- jcl 18y agoI would expect the standard scrolling gesture to scroll the iframe -- unless the iframe is already scrolled all the way in that direction, in which case it applies the scroll to the iframe's container. This behavior is intuitive, if slightly inconvenient in some cases, which is exactly the trade-off I'd have expected Apple to make. Requiring an unfamiliar multitouch gesture for a common operation strikes me as the kind of "let's do something cool because we can" geekery that got us middle-click-to-paste in X Windows. I'm curious: what does the iPhone use to scroll an iframe in an iframe? Three fingers?
- pxlpshr 18y agogreat stuff in that presentation! what also interested me was the bit on application pricing because that's what I'm struggling with at the moment. do we go the .99 cheapy-route or price at a premium to maintain a status-quo. hmmmmmm
- jcl 18y agoOne guy I heard from recently recommended pricing cheap until you get on a top-100 list, then jacking up the price. Of course, he was trying to market a game, which probably has different market dynamics than an application.
- jamesjyu 18y agoThis just goes to show you that nothing beats good old fashioned usability tests with actual users. They'll unearth the most obvious problems with interfaces that you're blind to.
- AndrewWarner 18y agoI thought I was the only one who found "the most intuitive phone in the world" a bit confusing. I also hate touching the screen because I sometimes accidentally click something I didn't mean to.
- golmuso 18y agowhen you use msn on iphone does it charge to your usage? if so, how much usage does msn take