#Templates for iwork stuck in dock mac os#

Contacts, with its index list of all contacts on the left hand side, doesn’t have page flipping, but the Calendar might. The natural metaphor of books is reused throughout the OS, such as in the Contacts application and the calendar. While iBooks is not a replacement of a real book, I believe it’s certainly close enough – with the added convenience factor of having thousands of books in a device as thick as a magazine. Nice typesetting, the sound and feeling of turning the pages are all big factors in this. When the discussion of electronic books comes up, people always mention the emotional connection with the feel and look of a real book. Every single action is animated to allow for natural interaction with it. As you may expect from such extremely elaborate animation design, picking a book animates opening the book. Upon buying the book, the book’s cover moves toward you, the shelf rotates again and the new book gets neatly placed on the shelf, rearranging the other books automatically, and gets a nice blue ribbon to indicate its unread status. When you tap to switch to the iBookstore, the entire shelf rotates around and shows the store layout. I encourage you to grab it it’s still as great an app it once was, but iBooks is certainly how we’d envisioned it to be if we had unlimited engineering power. Since it got a bit of hubbub due to the (obvious) similarities, Classics is now free. IBooks, for instance, uses an interface similar to the one me and David designed for Classics for iPhone. Interfaces overall are much more tactile though, as I mentioned in the introduction.

#Templates for iwork stuck in dock mac os#

It seems to vary from app to app, much like on Mac OS X. Sometimes controls go on the bottom, though.

iPad’s Safari, for instance, has all its features accessible through toolbar buttons in the top toolbar: The iPad disregards this somewhat, and uses the desktop toolbar model.

For iPhone, crucial controls and toolbars are placed at the bottom, where they’re the easiest to reach with your fingers when held in one hand. Globally, when compared to iPhone, the biggest obvious change is the relocation of toolbar buttons and controls. I’d love to hear people’s speculations and ideas on how Apple could solve this. The new and simple method was to use automatic saving and persistent data – but with iWork on the iPad as a serious content creation platform, this isn’t an option anymore. Obviously, iPhone OS was a great way to re-imagine computer interaction from scratch, and the whole hierarchical filesystem that confused and confounded users for so long was left out in the cold. What you’ve heard here first, though, is that iPad’s OS also houses as-of-yet unused 64 and 320 pixel document icons, which makes me eager to see how the ‘filesystem UI problem’ will be solved by Apple. This does help a consistently looking platform, but I’m not out on the extra spacing of icons on the home screen yet. The same shape, gloss, shadow and lighting is used for the icons on iPad. For Spotlight, the search interface, and the Settings application the icons are scaled down to 48 pixels. This wasn’t public, but you can calculate this from press images.

The traditional iPhone icons have taken a small step up on the iPad homescreen, to 72×72 pixels. Let’s start with the home screen, then, and thus, its icons. This allows for most, if not all of the conveniences modern interfaces we know from our desktop computers while retaining ease of use. iPad’s made a huge step from the small and cramped iPhone screen to a crisp 1024 by 768 pixel screen, and instead of going down the road of iPhone’s (or Mac OS X’s) rather sterile and conventional interface designs, uses very ‘earthy’ metaphors that behave like their real-life counterparts. The usual disclaimer applies: iPad hasn’t hit the market yet, and thus its UI may still be subject to change or improvement. Unless you’ve been living under in a multitude of nuclear holocaust-proofed rocks, you’ve heard all about Apple’s new tablet, the iPad.Īs usual with a large Apple product launch, I’ve written up this post to round up the good, the bad, and the ugly of all the new interface and interaction designs that were set loose on the world by the company that’s regarded as the most influential and skilled when it comes to designing experiences.