Think.
full archivesI think a lot—some say too much. Behold the results… a collection of my random, scattered thoughts. Pardon the dust, I'm tinkering with the layout in my spare time.
Posted on Thursday, 4 February 2010
We know this is on a screen, right? That we’re not limited by the boundaries of a physical sheet of paper, that we don’t need to pick up a piece of paper and flip it over to continue reading content on a screen?
Great points about adding shiny for the sake of shiny. I think the iPad page flip looks cool, and I’d imagine the stack of “pages to go” diminishes as you go (great way to show progress unobtrusively), but the effect is also a bit superfluous overall. Think of it this way: when people started binding leaves of paper together to make codices, did they feel that they needed to make each page look like it was part of a continuous scroll, the common form of written communication ‘til that time? Were scrolls made to look like some clay tablet, so people would feel comfortable using them?
