Latest on twitter:
"The iPad opens a path for an improved web experience for everyone. As soon as the iPad and its competing slates are in people’s hands, we’ll see a host of websites tailoring their content for touchscreen tablet browsing, and it’s going to be far more pleasant than the web experience we’re used to today"
What the iPad Means for the Future of Computing finally starts talking about what excites me about the iPad. A touchable internet! So fucking cool!
70% to 90% of all people are right handed, which doesn’t matter if you’re using a mouse. However, on a tablet, it means right-hand-side links are more accessible then left-hand-side links (to righties). Getting rid of the mouse and keyboard puts you that much closer to the experience - now you can touch and manipulate websites without any tools other then your own two hands. Eventually web designers may get this and start building sites that are fun to touch, and not just nice/easy to look at.
Right now, sites that attempt to emulate real world experiences don’t do so well - when you shop on amazon you’re not browsing shelves of items placed via Supermarket Psychology because amazon knows it has your attention for a very limited time and should give you exactly what you want, with minimal noise. I wonder if this will change as the “internet browsing experience” changes. Will there be more room for drawing from real life experience to making usable web sites? As you’re grabbing items from amazon and dropping them into your cart, is your brain going to subconsciously start drawing parallels to real life shopping? Hello, Impulse Buys? I don’t know - but I think us nerds need to stop focusing on how the iPad will end modern computing and spend more time thinking about what the iPad will make possible for us.
