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My motivation was to find out whether the fluid…",{"value":54,"source":48,"evidence":55},"Find out whether a fluid navigation model works and has advantages over modal",[56],{"id":51,"by":10,"text":52},{"value":58,"source":48,"evidence":59},"about 2 weeks",[60],{"id":61,"by":10,"text":62},"3003896","that's the question I've been asking myself for the past 2 weeks. And after putting quite some work in there I'm sure it is.",[64],{"value":65,"source":48,"evidence":66},"iOS",[67],{"id":68,"by":10,"text":69},"3003814","sure, why not, I just started with iOS because.. well, I have an iPad :-)","unknown","prototype",{"praise":73,"objections":96,"requests":123,"questions":142,"alternatives":157},[74,89],{"value":75,"source":76,"evidence":77},"Looks cool and visually polished","commenter",[78,82,85],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"3003893","elii","Wow, this looks really awesome! It's like the Twitter iPad app but a step further. I wonder if it's also usable besides the \"cool looking\".",{"id":83,"by":80,"text":84},"3004092","Yeah I think you definetely have to get your fingers on it for knowing if it makes sense or not. Visually it is winning!",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"3004003","king_magic","Really nice job! I like it a lot.",{"value":90,"source":76,"evidence":91},"Navigation combined with breadcrumbs is an efficient hybrid",[92],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"3004587","tsunamifury","Its interesting to me because the navigation combines with breadcrumbs to be a rather effecient hybrid. The design that allows that to happen seems to work very well with product…",[97,108,112],{"value":98,"source":76,"evidence":99},"Hard to tell where you are in deep levels; no breadcrumb or depth reference",[100,104],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"3003913","ed209","This looks really cool, love it when people experiment with UI. It's hard to judge from a video vs actually using it. The only issue I have is that I felt a bit lost a few levels…",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"3003938","gokhan","Neat concept. The following behavior bugged me through the whole demo: You switch to Lightning from IKEA FAMILY products and second level shows spotlights, ceiling lamps etc. But…",{"value":109,"source":76,"evidence":110},"Long text content does not suit horizontal scrolling",[111],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},{"value":113,"source":76,"evidence":114},"Animations and random-looking resizing confuse users",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"3004024","monopede","Sorry to break the stream of cheers, but I have my concerns about this design. Yes, it's a neat idea and already quite well-implemented. Looking at the video I can't help but…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"3003902","elisee","Yep the animations definitely need some work to feel more natural. It should be very short, just enough to let the user feels that it's not jumping from A to B, but not long…",[124,131,138],{"value":125,"source":76,"evidence":126},"Keep the product panel fully expanded at the deepest level",[127],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"3004021","uptown","Very cool implementation. I'd suggest keeping the product panel (bottom-most panel) fully expanded when you're at that level in the hierarchy. Around 0:26 seconds it's awkward…",{"value":132,"source":76,"evidence":133},"Open source the code",[134],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"3005810","aaronbrethorst","Neat! I'd love to see the code behind this open sourced. If you do, please either add it to http:\u002F\u002Fcocoacontrols.com, or shoot me an email at aaron@brethorsting.com with a link…",{"value":139,"source":76,"evidence":140},"Run usability tests with real users",[141],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},[143,150],{"value":144,"source":76,"evidence":145},"Why fluid instead of modal navigation",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"3004201","siglesias","Sorry, dumb question, but why fluid as opposed to modal? iPad users are used to browsing products modally and there don't seem to be any usability issues with it: there is a…",{"value":151,"source":76,"evidence":152},"Is the demo a real implementation or a mockup",[153],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"3003869","augustl","Is the video of an actual implemented app in use, or a mock up done in After Effects or similar?",[158,166,173,180],{"value":159,"source":76,"evidence":160},"Twitter for iPad",[161,162],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"3005659","Zev","This reminds me of Twitter for iPad, rotated 90°. Interesting idea, though.",{"value":167,"source":76,"evidence":168},"Our Choice iPad app",[169],{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"3005339","gdonelli","This is really Mike Mattas' \"Our Choice\" iPad App design, with n-degrees of freedom. I think \"Our Choice\" limits the nesting 2-3 levels.",{"value":174,"source":76,"evidence":175},"Push Pop Press app",[176],{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"3003894","dangrover","This is pretty neat. Reminds me a bit of Push Pop Press's app.",{"value":181,"source":76,"evidence":182},"Zooming user interface (ZUI) and Jef Raskin's zoomable interfaces",[183,187],{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"3004308","peteot","Reminds me of the ZUI (zooming user interface) concept. 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