[IxDA Discuss] What Women Want (was: iPhone usability tests)

[Tracy Boyington]

Most of us are presumably accustomed to using our thumb pads and
fingertips on our phones. With a long fingernail, you're using the pads
of your fingers instead of the tips. If you'd like to send me your
iPhone for a month, I'd be happy to get some acrylic nails and
demonstrate this theory for you. I'll take lots of pictures, I promise.
:-)

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Tracy Boyington     tracy_boyington at okcareertech.org
Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education
Stillwater, OK          http://www.okcareertech.org/cimc


>>> James Melzer <jamesmelzer at gmail.com> 07/23/07 1:26 PM >>>
But the person's thumbs hit the surface of the screen at a much lower 

angle than their fingers would. If you are holding the unit with your 

other digits (the crackberry prayer) then your thumbs are nearly  
parallel to the glass surface. Fingernail length ought to be  
irrelevant, or at least something to which you can safely expect  
people to find their own ergonomic workaround.

- James