One of the most challenging thing about Apple Watch is its non - immaterial user interface , where app picture are organize in a circular , zoomable jumble . And it turns out the sound erstwhile iPhone might be capable to acquire something about legible UI from its little , untried first cousin .
How do we know ? Because a developer refer Lucas Menge in reality built it . Menge program a sample port that uses the same basic organizational layout as the Apple Watch and ran it on his iPhone , and lucky for us , he uploaded a demo to YouTube :
As he demo , app icons are arrange on a single , monolithic offset control grid , and users pink to zoom in an out of the field . He even included some nice vitality details , like the expansion of an icon into the full - fledged app . Surprisingly , such a panoptic field of operations does n’t seem as irksome as you might imagine — the iPhone ’s touchscreen is surprisingly in force at picking up touches even when icon are quite small , and Menge ’s pinch - to - zoom and goat god gestures seem to work seamlessly .
Our traditional apprehension of how visual entropy is considerably organized tells us that it ’s all about geometrical regularity and legibility — in other language , esteem the grid . But Apple is delving into new territorial dominion with the Apple Watch user interface , which uses an irregular storage-battery grid and let users control the scale . At times , icons are barely legible — a gravid no no , conventionally talk .
But touchscreens are now raw enough — and smartphone users are now experienced enough — that a zoomable , constitutional grid could make a certain amount of sense . It places more agency in the manus of the user , too , which is never a bad thing . But let ’s not get ahead of ourselves — we do n’t even have a definite release date for the Apple Watch yet . But when we do , it ’s going to be captivating to see how well this theory works in practice . [ CultOfMac ]
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