iPad First Look: Does It Break My Sites?
I got to touch one yesterday.
And, one of the first things I had to do was check out how some of our web sites display in this format. I was especially interested in how MyKidsTurn.com displayed. And it looks . . . great! Phew! The YouTube videos even play right in the page.
I'm pretty much in love with the iPad as a device, but it's going to very quickly create some new necessities to consider in web design. Netbooks just didn't have the emotional juice to push us towards slimmer designs, simpler UI, and so on. But now you can touch you web sites.
Touch screen browsing will be the norm soon. If you're looking for a way to test your sites and see how they look on an iPad and you can't just mug someone who has one the way I did, check out iPadpeek.com. And then, start having the conversations you need to about UI design for this environment.
The iPad isn't going away, and it isn't going to be a niche. It probably won't be more than a year or two before there's a google android device on the same scale. And HP has leaked a previde video of their upcoming Slate. So, this sort of UI is certainly not just going to go away.
