Comments on: Apple Patent Confirms 1.1.3 Jiggly Icon Moving Scheme http://www.imore.com/2008/01/02/apple-patent-confirms-113-jiggly-icon-moving-scheme/ More of everything iPhone and iPad Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rene Ritchie http://www.imore.com/2008/01/02/apple-patent-confirms-113-jiggly-icon-moving-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-5248 Rene Ritchie Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:41:07 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/01/02/apple-patent-confirms-113-jiggly-icon-moving-scheme/#comment-5248 <p>Sure, the metaphore is always debatable (and good UI artists probably fuss with the arguments a lot). The patent mentions a detaching and floating above the surface, which is pretty real-world. Wiggling abstacts that some. </p> <p>The icons they use in favorites and other apps to change sequencing isn't that intutive (at least to me).</p> <p>Hey, they could always steal a page from Mii management and have all the icons line up at whistle-blow.</p> <p>Color/saturation/transparancy or minicon (like the plus or numbers or arrows) are all good ways, though arguably not as fun or conversational :)</p> Sure, the metaphore is always debatable (and good UI artists probably fuss with the arguments a lot). The patent mentions a detaching and floating above the surface, which is pretty real-world. Wiggling abstacts that some.

The icons they use in favorites and other apps to change sequencing isn’t that intutive (at least to me).

Hey, they could always steal a page from Mii management and have all the icons line up at whistle-blow.

Color/saturation/transparancy or minicon (like the plus or numbers or arrows) are all good ways, though arguably not as fun or conversational :)

]]> By: Dieter Bohn http://www.imore.com/2008/01/02/apple-patent-confirms-113-jiggly-icon-moving-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-5247 Dieter Bohn Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:54:37 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/01/02/apple-patent-confirms-113-jiggly-icon-moving-scheme/#comment-5247 <p>What about a color change? Or a few bright, flashy arrows underneath the icon you want to move?</p> <p>I dunno, it still seems inelegant to me. If only because it gives me the <strong><a href=""http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Jibblies"" target="_blank">jibblies</a></strong></p> <p><img src="http://www.hrwiki.org/images/d/d8/jibblies.gif" border="0"></p> What about a color change? Or a few bright, flashy arrows underneath the icon you want to move?

I dunno, it still seems inelegant to me. If only because it gives me the jibblies

]]> By: Rene Ritchie http://www.imore.com/2008/01/02/apple-patent-confirms-113-jiggly-icon-moving-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-5246 Rene Ritchie Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:30:29 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/01/02/apple-patent-confirms-113-jiggly-icon-moving-scheme/#comment-5246 <p>Cheers!</p> <p>And I think Apple realizes that sometimes they're dealing with users who take the iPhone back because the "ringer stops working" after they (inadvertently or not) flip the Treo-esque silent mode switch.</p> <p>Hitting people over the head with state, even swinging/wiggling state, may be a necessary bloat at times.</p> Cheers!

And I think Apple realizes that sometimes they’re dealing with users who take the iPhone back because the “ringer stops working” after they (inadvertently or not) flip the Treo-esque silent mode switch.

Hitting people over the head with state, even swinging/wiggling state, may be a necessary bloat at times.

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