Windows Phone 7 Metro UI breaks spatiality
"Wow!"
That was the impression I had when I watched the video. I love the Metro UI in Windows Phone 7. It is fantastic. It flips the Apple's idea of a phone UI — of applications being silos with limited interactions between them — by letting data and actions take centre-stage.
However, Metro breaks spatiality. After a series of seemingly endless list of menus (and once that seem to fall off the screen), it is a little disorienting. Some questions regarding the UI:
- You could lose track of where you are and what screen the Back button might take you to.
- Now what if you accidentally hit the Home button? Will you be able to recollect the series of menu options you had taken to reach the previous position?
- Put simply: isn't the practice of allowing multiple ways of doing the same thing, each through a different set of menu selections, a little too confusing for an average user? Especially on a phone.
- How do I read the full title of the document?
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