iPhone Exposé concept video looks good, but not that usable

Posted on 05 Oct 2009 by Thomas

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I’m with Cult of Mac on this one. This concept video of Exposé possibly being ported to the iPhone just doesn’t seem to translate that well. Having a thumbnail of nine or more iPhone screens is going to be tough to navigate — well, unless you have them sorted by colour. When I first saw the title of the video I got excited and thought that it might be a little bit like the Dashboard post I wrote a little earlier. Unfortunately, the video is really just about another way to navigate home screen pages – and since I really only keep four of them, Exposé wouldn’t serve as much of a shortcut for me. There’s also something about that ghostly hand that’s a little creepy. :P

[YouTube link here, news via Cult of Mac]

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2 Responses to iPhone Exposé concept video looks good, but not that usable

  1. aflorence says:

    My vision of Expose for iPhone would be a side scrolling presentation of windows, icons, or thumbnails. It seems they didn't even consider the iPhone as a different platform, which has different UX needs.

  2. Rusty Hoge says:

    This looks very familar. There was a rumor early in the year about TapSB, a similar utility that looked very promising but, apparently, never became available.

    I like it.

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