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Designing for iPad: Reality Check

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Re: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

#21

Post by k-zed »

Aha, so this is what an iPad developer does.

"In order to answer the questions: Is the font big enough? Does it render well? Is the Schriftbild (text impression) inviting or rejecting? How does it feel to read? ...we had no other choice than printing out your screens on a 1:1 scale. We had to print out hundreds of pixel designs to get a feeling for the new canvas and the high resolution... After two months of printing, we did get the type choices and sizes quite right..."

I have no words.

Re: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

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Post by ugh »

k-zed wrote: post #21

Aha, so this is what an iPad developer does. "In order to answer the questions: Is the font big enough? Does it render well? Is the Schriftbild (text impression) inviting or rejecting? How does it feel to read? ...we had no other choice than printing out your screens on a 1:1 scale. We had to print out hundreds of pixel designs to get a feeling for the new canvas and the high resolution... After two months of printin…

What’s wrong with that? I would guess that’s not the only thing they did.

Re: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

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Post by devinj »

oloolo wrote: post #19
SlyShy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes and no. I've tried this sort of thing before, and obviously the machine can't know when you are actually reading a paragraph slowly or when you've just been distracted. It would have to be clever about weighting an overall average with a short term average. I'll be curious to see how they do it, definitely.

It says: "To find your average reading time all you need is taking a two minute test reading into one of the texts in the app and you’re set."

Yeah, that's where I went from "this could be useful" to "that's stupid". It's like doing an internet speed test to determine how long it will take to download a file, ignoring how fast the file has actually been downloading.

Re: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

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Post by pclark »

k-zed wrote: post #21

Aha, so this is what an iPad developer does. "In order to answer the questions: Is the font big enough? Does it render well? Is the Schriftbild (text impression) inviting or rejecting? How does it feel to read? ...we had no other choice than printing out your screens on a 1:1 scale. We had to print out hundreds of pixel designs to get a feeling for the new canvas and the high resolution... After two months of printin…

iPad designer, you mean.

Re: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

#25

Post by oloolo »

devinj wrote: post #23
oloolo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says: "To find your average reading time all you need is taking a two minute test reading into one of the texts in the app and you’re set."

Yeah, that's where I went from "this could be useful" to "that's stupid". It's like doing an internet speed test to determine how long it will take to download a file, ignoring how fast the file has actually been downloading.

It's called calibration.

Re: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

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Post by devinj »

oloolo wrote: post #25
devinj wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's where I went from "this could be useful" to "that's stupid". It's like doing an internet speed test to determine how long it will take to download a file, ignoring how fast the file has actually been downloading.

It's called calibration.

It's one thing to calibrate, it's another to rely on context-sensitive data and pretend it is universal, when instead you can just rely on the context-specific data for any specific context and refine the estimates as you go. To my knowledge, web browsers do not "calibrate" like this.

Re: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

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Post by bkudria »

brianlash wrote: post #16
bkudria wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, there are plenty of examples in the text. I didn't think it necessary to paste the entire article in the comment box. We'll have to agree to disagree.

He didn't say an example was necessary, he said it could have made the quote clearer.

whoosh

Re: Designing for iPad: Reality Check

#28

Post by blasdel »

pyre wrote: post #12
bkudria wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What part of the quote are you having trouble understanding, sir?

I think that it would be clearer if there were some examples of nested metaphors or metaphors that 'darken' other metaphors. Maybe there is in the actual text, but the quote out of context seems a little abstract.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataphysics#Pataphor

http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory

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