Το iPad είναι το μέλλον λέμε!

I held a 6-hour workshop at NSConference in both the UK and USA recently, focusing on software design and user experience. Predictably, an extremely popular topic was the iPad, and how to approach the design of iPad applications. I gave a 90-minute presentation on the subject to start each workshop, and I want to share some of my observations here.

Please note: this is about the user interface conventions and considerations which apply to creating software for the iPad platform (and touch-screen tablet devices in general). It is not a technical discussion of iPad-related APIs (which remain under NDA at time of writing in early March 2010).

As I watched the iPad introduction keynote, there was one thing above all which struck me:

That’s iWork (Keynote, Pages and Numbers) for iPad. It’s also a message.

It’s not just a big iPhone

The iPad may be a larger version of the iPhone in terms of the hardware and operating system, but treating it as the same device would be foolish. It turns out that increasing the display size of touch-screen hardware can transform it into an entirely new class of device. The iPad is a productivity platform in a way that the iPhone rightly never tried to be. (And it’s officially OK to charge $9.99 per app.)

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, he did so in a very specific way:

The iPad is in the middle, between the iPhone and the Mac. This isn’t just an acknowledgement of relative display size or processing power, it’s also a strong indication of the market position of the device and its software.

The iPad is a target for apps from the desktop, not just from smartphones. There are some very interesting opportunities here.

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Πραγματικά όποιος ΑΚΟΜΗ δεν έχει καταλάβει ότι το μέλλον της πληροφορικής είναι οι συσκευές τύπου iPad και ότι το iPad απλά μοιάζει με το iPhone/iPod Touch και ότι εκεί τελειώνουν οι όποιες ομοιότητές τους, να πάει να τον δει κάνας γιατρός ή παππάς ή μάγος ή αστρολόγος ή ο Πιτ Παπαδάκος, κάτι βρε παιδί μου...

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