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suggestion: seems to only be one level of bounciness, and it only applies at the end of the scroll. itd be cool to see the screen morph while the scroll occurs as a function of the velocity of the scroll, and giving a bounce that's appropriate to the change in velocity.
And yes, Microsoft has patented it.
Windows Phone, however, does not show an "area beyond the edge" on over scrolling; instead, it anchors one edge of the document at the boundary, and subtly "stretches" the rest of the document to follow your finger. The effect is like trying to pull down an elastic sheet of paper. This indicates that the boundary has been reached, but without showing a separate "area beyond the edge". As such, it achieves an effect as intuitive as iOS's, but without infringing the claims.
(Yes, you really have to be the pedantic when evaluating claims.)
I'm pretty sure this effect came about because Microsoft wanted to work around the Apple patent. However, some sort of cross license, if not the one from the 90s, is apparently in place as well. Some UI elements in WP do infringe other Apple patents, such as the "disappearing scroll bar" one.
I wish they'd cross license the Universal search thing, it'd be really nice because there's a dedicated search button on every phone.
another example of the HN changes around here.
Interpreted that way, it's fine constructive feedback. But it's easy to see how it would be taken as a self-entitled complaint.
What I say is that it's very disappointing that this demo goes 95% of the way to create something AWESOME, but those 5% it goes short are very stark and unfortunate. It's like a brand new Ferrari with a scratch. Wouldn't that be disappointing? Even though it's a Ferrari which is awesome.
The problem is that feelings are 95% positive and 5% negative, but my comment is 50/50. So it may seem that I'm being negative, when in fact I'm 95% positive. Hence those missing 5% are so disappointing.
Great job though, it's really neat (this goes without saying...).
Edit: The reason I talk about the negative is because it can be made better. I find it less useful to talk about positive because it's already good, so there's nothing to be done.
Here's how you can say the same in a more positive manner:
> This is neat, and it would be even better if there was feedback when…
To keep up the hacker spirit, I find it amusing that the words "but" and "and" are logically equivalent (i.e. they both are representations of the logical ∧ operator), just with different connotations. :)
(Edit: It's actually a social hack to say your negatively toned "but" phrase with a positive "and" instead.)
Somewhat odd when scrolling via keyboard, though, since the "force" applied is always fixed.
I have used different desktops and I have used every bell & whistle available. And I have really enjoyed them, sure, but just for three or four days.
I think there's a lot of movement in that scroll, it's battery consuming, and it just doesn't provide any help for the user.
But don't get me wrong, I think it's a nice project to test your design skills, keep up working =)
But would prefer the icons to not shrink. Keep it simple with the bend.
edit: This does not show up in IE