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This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation

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Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation

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Post by appflows »

brittohalloran wrote: post #10

This type of broad trend analysis is really useful and should be done more often. It's these types of interactions that become "intuitive".

Thanks much! We're planning a series of trend analysis for the Fall, across both iPhone and iPad. We'll be posting on twitter, @appflows

Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation

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jrmg wrote: post #12

A bit meta: I would love to be able to browse appflo.ws better on my iPad. The site seems set up solely for desktop navigation at the moment (use of hovers, width etc.)

Glad you're enjoying! A mobile-optimized version of appflo.ws is on it's way. We just launched this month.

Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

mattmaroon wrote: post #5

I first noticed this on Android. Dolphin Browser has done this for years now. Swipe to the left side (by swiping right) to get to bookmarks, etc. Swipe to the right side to get to add ons.

In fact, I think it's an Android trend that has migrated to iOS. It works better on Android, IMO, with its hardware menu button.

Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation

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Post by coob »

Unlike any of the other apps we featured with side navigation, Google Plus slides the entire previous page out of view when the user goes to the side menu. Will this be the next trend for side navigation?

Isn't this how iOS navigation has worked since its inception?!

Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation

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Post by potatolicious »

coob wrote: post #18

Unlike any of the other apps we featured with side navigation, Google Plus slides the entire previous page out of view when the user goes to the side menu. Will this be the next trend for side navigation? Isn't this how iOS navigation has worked since its inception?!

No, you're thinking about the navigation controller, which is basically a deep stack of views that you can travel between.

The side navigation they're talking about is a "global" view that sits below your normal stack, that you can get to at any time. So instead of backing out to the top of the stack and selecting "read messages", now you can just gesture-swipe to the side and access the "main menu" directly from anywhere.

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