Comments on: Be careful with iPhone orientation specific content http://usabilityfriction.com/2008/08/22/be-careful-with-iphone-orientation-specific-content/ Usability shouldn't be a drag Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:15:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bookmarks about Usability http://usabilityfriction.com/2008/08/22/be-careful-with-iphone-orientation-specific-content/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Bookmarks about Usability Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:45:27 +0000 http://usabilityfriction.com/?p=39#comment-132 [...] - bookmarked by 6 members originally found by kakashisaidhi on 2008-11-16 Be careful with iPhone orientation specific content http://usabilityfriction.com/2008/08/22/be-careful-with-iphone-orientation-specific-content/ - [...] [...] – bookmarked by 6 members originally found by kakashisaidhi on 2008-11-16 Be careful with iPhone orientation specific content http://usabilityfriction.com/2008/08/22/be-careful-with-iphone-orientation-specific-content/ – [...]

]]> By: Gavin http://usabilityfriction.com/2008/08/22/be-careful-with-iphone-orientation-specific-content/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Gavin Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:37:44 +0000 http://usabilityfriction.com/?p=39#comment-89 Have you seen bloombergs application for Iphone / Itouch. Very nice design. If you have the page up showing stocks for a certain company 1 way will show news story and small graph of share price. Rotate it and the graph is displayed full screen. Its a very nice design and works really well. It is free so I recommend you have a quick look. I understand your concerns it would need to be labelled that your page is setup to change when roated. For a whole site maybe not but for a small section / about page it is possibly handy Have you seen bloombergs application for Iphone / Itouch.

Very nice design. If you have the page up showing stocks for a certain company 1 way will show news story and small graph of share price. Rotate it and the graph is displayed full screen. Its a very nice design and works really well. It is free so I recommend you have a quick look.

I understand your concerns it would need to be labelled that your page is setup to change when roated. For a whole site maybe not but for a small section / about page it is possibly handy

]]> By: How am I supposed to know I can tilt the iPhone?! http://usabilityfriction.com/2008/08/22/be-careful-with-iphone-orientation-specific-content/comment-page-1/#comment-4 How am I supposed to know I can tilt the iPhone?! Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:37:24 +0000 http://usabilityfriction.com/?p=39#comment-4 [...] Usability Friction Usability shouldn’t be a drag Skip to content AboutContactPrivacyLinksAdvertising « Be careful with iPhone orientation specific content [...] [...] Usability Friction Usability shouldn’t be a drag Skip to content AboutContactPrivacyLinksAdvertising « Be careful with iPhone orientation specific content [...]

]]> By: Ashley Towers http://usabilityfriction.com/2008/08/22/be-careful-with-iphone-orientation-specific-content/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Ashley Towers Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:45:04 +0000 http://usabilityfriction.com/?p=39#comment-3 Hi Will - thanks for the comment! It's funny you should mention that one - I was thinking the same thing whilst I was making a coffee after clicking post! I think this is a similar situation to the Wii - there's an entire new way of interacting that's just appeared from nowhere and it will take a while for the best ways to use it to bubble through. I'm looking forward to see what emerges though! Hi Will – thanks for the comment! It’s funny you should mention that one – I was thinking the same thing whilst I was making a coffee after clicking post!

I think this is a similar situation to the Wii – there’s an entire new way of interacting that’s just appeared from nowhere and it will take a while for the best ways to use it to bubble through. I’m looking forward to see what emerges though!

]]> By: Will http://usabilityfriction.com/2008/08/22/be-careful-with-iphone-orientation-specific-content/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Will Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:16:41 +0000 http://usabilityfriction.com/?p=39#comment-2 Hey Ashley, Thanks for the link. :) I do actually tend to agree with everything you've said. I've been playing around with the code some more recently and one of the best uses I've found is like you say, showing extra content when there is more space. On a blog for example, you can show the archives or an advert perhaps when holding the phone in landscape. Hold it portrait and you just get the post itself. Something I've been attempting is having a page with the summary of all the blog posts and instead of a more link simply allowing the phone to be turned portrait and whichever post you are currently over will show in full. Again though - more of a novelty than a genuinely useful function. Will Hey Ashley,
Thanks for the link. :)
I do actually tend to agree with everything you’ve said. I’ve been playing around with the code some more recently and one of the best uses I’ve found is like you say, showing extra content when there is more space. On a blog for example, you can show the archives or an advert perhaps when holding the phone in landscape. Hold it portrait and you just get the post itself.

Something I’ve been attempting is having a page with the summary of all the blog posts and instead of a more link simply allowing the phone to be turned portrait and whichever post you are currently over will show in full. Again though – more of a novelty than a genuinely useful function.

Will

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