The Canadian iPad review
Posted: May 28th, 2010 | Author: Erica | Filed under: Human/Computer Interaction | Tags: Apple, iPad, review, UI, user experience, user interface, UX | 5 Comments »
Preface: Back in the day, I was an art school kid learning graphic design. We worked on Macs. Macs were easy to use.
Philosophical review: Apple, those revolutionaries, made the cell phone user friendly. They took the crappy, crappy experience that was using a cell phone—on par with that most hated and poorly designed UI, the office photocopier—and made it doable. (So doable I recommend the iPhone to people one and two generations above me, so they can send a freakin’ picture through SMS and be done with it).
Apple said hey, we’ve got an amazing user interface here. Really good stuff. This should be…a computer. So they turned it into one.
The iPad was created from the UI up, and that’s how it should be. The user at the centre of the experience. They’re correcting the UI mistakes of the past, destroying the lock in of 90′s OS conventions.
This is why Apple survived the unbelievable market share domination of Microsoft.
Gearhead review: This is going to be eleventy hundred times more convenient to drag around conferences than my server…er, laptop.
