This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
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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
#2Reminds me of the panoramic navigation concept behind Metro (yes, yes, I'll eventually call it Modern, I guess).
Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
#3Seems this is a general mobile trend, not just iPhone: http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2012/06/emerging-ui-pattern...
It's nice to see some convergence in mobile UIs.
Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
#4Not having an iPhone: how do you access this side navigation? I don't immediately see any clues in the app. Is it the buttons near the top (three horizontal lines)?
That being said, it kind of reminds me of Windows Phone's swipe to the side. Windows Phone does give clues that there's more to the page by cutting off part of the edge. This is the default design language for Windows Phone.
On the iPhone, it almost looks like there's a built-in or popular library these developers are using to enable this. Any word on how this is accomplished?
Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
#5I 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.
Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
#6@freehunter, yep, you access it by hitting the button near the top. You may want to check out sidetap, a mobile framework that allows you to build side nav: You may want to look at http://sidetap.it/
Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
#7Not having an iPhone: how do you access this side navigation? I don't immediately see any clues in the app. Is it the buttons near the top (three horizontal lines)? That being said, it kind of reminds me of Windows Phone's swipe to the side. Windows Phone does give clues that there's more to the page by cutting off part of the edge. This is the default design language for Windows Phone. On the iPhone, it almost looks…
You swipe to the right or press the upper left hand button to reveal the menu.
Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
#8I 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 android 4.0 browser (don't know about earlier versions) there a mode to "save space" where the menu only comes out with a swipe from the border.
Hopefully, Apple hasn't already patented this gesture.
Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
#9Not having an iPhone: how do you access this side navigation? I don't immediately see any clues in the app. Is it the buttons near the top (three horizontal lines)? That being said, it kind of reminds me of Windows Phone's swipe to the side. Windows Phone does give clues that there's more to the page by cutting off part of the edge. This is the default design language for Windows Phone. On the iPhone, it almost looks…
Yeah, it's the three lines button. I find it kinda jarring not having any visual indication from the button that it's going to be sliding. Would be interesting to experiment with making it look more like a tab you can use to pull the content to the side with or something like that.
Re: This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
#10This type of broad trend analysis is really useful and should be done more often. It's these types of interactions that become "intuitive".