“At the age of 10 months, my daughter picked up my iPhone one morning, took her index finger and swiped it across the bottom of the screen and unlocked my phone. I was astonished. Actually, I was freaked out. How did she know to do that? Obviously she had seen daddy do it many times. And there was the design. It was one simple button with an arrow and some dazzlingly lit text that made it pretty clear that this thing should and could be moved by touching it.
As time went on my daughter became more adept at navigating my phone and by the age of 2, could easily get to the few games I had downloaded, knew to go to the iPod app, navigate to the “Go! Diego, Go!” episodes I had downloaded and get the show playing. Nearly all of these interactions were the result of trial and error, some after seeing me do it once, some totally on her own.
The iPad was no exception. Upon sitting down with it for the first time, she already knew most of the basic patterns—swipe, tap, shake and pinch—and happily tapped away on this revolutionary new device. For her, the ability to directly manipulate the screen must have been some kind of fundamental connection—the interface revealed what interaction would do. It mapped to something very human and intuitive and she had no problem adapting to it right away.”
Joshua Brewer, grifos meus, daqui.
