[IxDA Discuss] iPhone - review

[David Polinchock]

I just posted some of my initial reactions to the iPhone at
http://tinyurl.com/ywarx4 but I gotta' tell you, I had some pretty bad
battery life today.  I only made 3 calls, none of them completed just so I
could show people what happened when you were doing something on the phone
and a call came in, I used e-mail, took photos and my daughter watched a few
hours of video and the battery was out by 7 PM.  And I unplugged it this
morning about 10 AM.  According to Apple, I should get 7 hours of straight
video playback and I didn't get any where near that!  How have other people
been doing with battery life?

David


> From: "Daniel C. Montiel" <torrentprime at mac.com>
> Date:  Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:07:11 -0700
> To: <discuss at lists.interactiondesigners.com>
> Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] iPhone - review
> 
> *  Looking at the interaction of things, if space bar didn't accept
> the autocomplete, then users would have to move up to the word, every
> time,  to accept each correction. This would break the flow of typing.
> *  The x-in-a-circle, which is what the tip over the word shows, is
> used pretty extensively across the iPhone's GUI to show deletion.  It
> would seem odd to not have it do the same here.
> *  If the x-in-a-circle was removed, then both space bar and tap-on-
> the-word would do the same thing; duplicate functionality isn't
> really a good thing on a mobile device where every pixel matters.
> *  If the space bar functionality was removed and only the tap-on-the-
> word did it, then the delete functionality would be lost entirely and
> there would be no way to cancel the autocomplete/correct aside from
> another button or keystroke somewhere else on the screen, which would
> be even further removed from the actual word itself. This way, it
> stays inline with the text area being populated and is where your eye
> is anyway.
> 
> I think they made the right call, myself.
> 
> 
> On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 3, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Won Sun Parque wrote:
>> 
>>> But to me, I keep having the urge to move my finger up to press the
>>> suggested word itself to accept it. Kind of like. "Oh yeh, that's
>>> the word I want.", and touch! But then, BOOM, the word is gone....
>>> Turns out, if you touch the word that you want, it means cancel!
>> 
>> Yup, I kept doing this the first 3-4 times. After I figured out the
>> space bar suggestion/workaround, I stopped hitting the word that was
>> suggested with the X in the top corner. I still think that selecting
>> the word or hitting the space bar should do the same thing. From a
>> proximity standpoint and Fitz's law, the space bar is faster and more
>> efficient, but the my behavior and expectation was that clicking the
>> word that's showing up should fill it in.
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> Todd Zaki Warfel
>> President, Design & Usability Specialist
>> Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully.
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>> In theory, theory and practice are the same.
>> In practice, they are not.
>> 
>> 
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