The Digital Librarian

26 Jan, 2010

Wild Guess: New apple tablet will have a zoomable 3D UI

Posted by: jaf In: Apple|Design|Hardware|User Interface

So, just for fun, I’m going to step a little bit out on a limb and predict that the new apple device that will be announced tomorrow will have a true 3D zoombable user interface – where you can zoom in on (and out of) content. The ZUI (Zoomable User Interface) approach has been around for awhile, and seems a perfect match with a large (larger than iphone) multitouch device.

So, am I good at this prediction thing? We’ll know tomorrow :-)

1 Response to "Wild Guess: New apple tablet will have a zoomable 3D UI"

1 | Jonathan Rochkind

January 26th, 2010 at 5:03 pm

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I don’t get what’s “3D” about these things?

I am sure they will allow zooming in and out of content, with a multi-touch interface. I’m not sure what the benefit is of allowing zooming to apply to all interface elements, instead of just a main ‘content window’.

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