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The physical home button for bailing out when problems or boredom strike certainly works well for her.
My daughter learned to do all of the basic iPhone interaction --scroll between home screens, launching, and quitting apps-- at around 19 months. Launching apps was the most difficult part, as it took her awhile to learn to touch only one part of the screen. It seems to me a brilliant testament to great UX design. While on the subject of judging things by the reactions of small children, the first brand she recognized…
Stray observations: 1. kids are awesome 2. she only got frustrated once, and that was when she couldn't get back to the home screen. With the hint "press the button; the big button" she felt in control (and happy). 3. By this point I'm thinking how I would simulate her investigative behavior in software. It's not systematic, but it's oh so efficient. 4. the confidence with which she dragged the letters to the "learn…
The physical home button for bailing out when problems or boredom strike certainly works well for her.
And it's fast. Everyone complains it doesn't have multitasking, but is there really a better way to switch apps that would be any faster than that even with multitasking?
So easy a child can do it? I really think testing a user interface on a child is key to good design.
The physical home button for bailing out when problems or boredom strike certainly works well for her.
And it's fast. Everyone complains it doesn't have multitasking, but is there really a better way to switch apps that would be any faster than that even with multitasking?
So easy a child can do it? I really think testing a user interface on a child is key to good design.
But is it so easy a caveman can do it?
The physical home button for bailing out when problems or boredom strike certainly works well for her.
And it's fast. Everyone complains it doesn't have multitasking, but is there really a better way to switch apps that would be any faster than that even with multitasking?