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LDBoblo · 08-31-2009, 04:01 PM

When are product designers going to learn that buttons just won't function effectively to navigate about our books?

It is a travesty that this method is limiting our creativity and forcing us into a primitive "one page, one screen" paradigm that starves off any hope of the eBook truly becoming a navigable dynamic medium.

OK OK, I'm just mocking the PDF thread, but before I go back to my bridge, let me ask:

In addition to buttons (including rockers) and the current touch-swipe page-flip method, what could be an interesting new direction for navigation function? Scroll wheels? Trackballs? MacBook Wheel?

08-31-2009, 04:01 PM	#1
LDBoblo Wizard Posts: 1,385 Karma: 16056 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Asia Device: Kindle 3 WiFi, Sony PRS-505	Buttons are not an eBook navigation method When are product designers going to learn that buttons just won't function effectively to navigate about our books? It is a travesty that this method is limiting our creativity and forcing us into a primitive "one page, one screen" paradigm that starves off any hope of the eBook truly becoming a navigable dynamic medium. OK OK, I'm just mocking the PDF thread, but before I go back to my bridge, let me ask: In addition to buttons (including rockers) and the current touch-swipe page-flip method, what could be an interesting new direction for navigation function? Scroll wheels? Trackballs? MacBook Wheel?