Tag Archives: scaling

The iPod can’t scale

Dave Gustafson pointed to a great Gizmodo post that looks at the absurd place the clickwheel iPod has gone over the years with all the functionality that slowly got added to something that originally was designed only to play music.

“To put this eyeball cacophony into perspective, the new menu system has over 60 places to [...]

Don’t shrink designs to small screens

“Shrinking” design paradigms to mobile devices often isn’t the best strategy.
“Designing user interfaces for small screens is a difficult problem, much more difficult than it may seem at first glance. We can not simply take established interface conventions and “shrink” them to baby face size, because just like children have a unique way of life, [...]