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The Power of Good UI Design

July 21st, 2007 at 8:43am • Posted in Gadgets • Tagged Gadgets

Yep. This is a one year old baby using the iPhone. Very cute, and reason enough for me to buy some more Apple stock.

And on a related note, for all of you happy iPhone users out there, check out SeeqPod via your phone. The first potential killer app for the iPhone, and an utter pleasure to use on wi-fi networks. This app alone makes the iPhone a better music player than the iPod.

Update: Found a Business 2.0 blog entry with this video along with a couple of others of babies using the iPhone. But the best part about the blog entry is probably a link to a hilarious Fake Steve Jobs post. (Excerpt: “ Check out this video showing a two-year-old figuring out how to use an iPhone. I wept when I watched this. It was like seeing the future.“) And Dugg!



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Kenneth

July 21st, 2007 at 8:55am

Aw, cute :P

Andrew

July 21st, 2007 at 12:28pm

The geek in me is jealous that the iPhone hasn’t made it to the UK yet, the father-to-a-ten-month old in me is jealous that my daughter can’t say “Daddy” yet. I’m hoping that satisfaction on both counts may happen at more-or-less the same time…

Mike B.

July 21st, 2007 at 1:34pm

Phill, thanks for the SeeqPod website. I never even knew it existed! It’s awesome!

Can’t wait until MH2!
- Mike

м6

July 21st, 2007 at 3:18pm

Hey, how do you buy stock anyway?
Does that involve those horrible brokers and such?

Wayne

July 22nd, 2007 at 12:21am

Steve Jobs would wet his diaper in happiness if he saw this!

AskTheAdmiN

July 22nd, 2007 at 12:23am

Very cute… Got an awww out of the misses. Thanks from your friends @ http://www.askTheAdmin.Com

Josue Salazar

July 22nd, 2007 at 12:54am

Aww the baby is so cute

Vince

July 22nd, 2007 at 1:09am

Kinda funny I can’t watch the video on my iPhone… Have to check it out on my computer.

Steve

July 22nd, 2007 at 1:24am

Apple did do the UI well. But I’m not a 2 year old.

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Xeph

July 22nd, 2007 at 2:31am

Cute :)

bahram

July 22nd, 2007 at 2:31am

You Ingnorant Tech freak,

Please forgive me if I am offensive, but may be you desreved. You underestimating human intelligence and learning ability. It is a natural process of learning.
A chimp or a Dog can also do that so does a 1 yr old homo-sapeine.

Also thanks for seeqpod, site. They should change the name if they learn Turkish language.
Regards,

Phill Ryu

July 22nd, 2007 at 2:43am

bahram, good luck teaching a chimp, dog, or a 1 year old baby how to browse photos on most regular phones that support them. (Hint, it requires reading ability for menus, and identifying / pressing small, tiny buttons in rather unintuitive ways.) ;)

Mo.C

July 22nd, 2007 at 2:45am

M6 – one way is via etrade.com… but you’ll want to do a lot of research into “stocks” before you start investing.

Cheers.

Zinna

July 22nd, 2007 at 3:28am

iPhone in certainly intuitive with it’s two simultaneous inputs. Imagine what the little one could do with a Surface machine and it’s 52 simultaneous inputs and ability to recognise physical objects. I’d be buying some MS stock also, esp given first to market and patients stuff. The race to design and own the replacement for WIMP is on.

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Anders

July 22nd, 2007 at 7:28am

I’m great full for not being a chimp, dog or a 1 year old baby and that I have the ability to read, indentify and press small (even tiny) buttons. :-)

But the iPhone does look cool – just too bad that it’s almost only the UI that is cool about it. ;-)

fgndfh

July 22nd, 2007 at 7:45am

Wow, this kid is going to grow up and see the tapes his parents made ans is gonna think “Crap! My parents taped me playing with a phone! WTF?!”

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July 22nd, 2007 at 8:22am

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ok

July 22nd, 2007 at 8:38am

so you told him to swing his finger across the screen..THAT DEFINITELY SHOWS HOW GOOD THE UI DESIGN IS!!1 Lets see him copy and paste! Oh wait..

gordy

July 22nd, 2007 at 9:13am

… and some people say that apple products aren’t easy to use…

joh

July 22nd, 2007 at 9:34am

Yep, that’s exactly the problem with most computer UIs. The target user is the dumbest person you can find. Which is why using an Apple product is as frustrating as watching Teletubbies.

Anonymous

July 22nd, 2007 at 11:27am

joh:

A good UI should be usable by the lowest common denominator: that often makes it easier, too, for an advanced user. Even if I’m programming, I want a UI that I can use without thinking about it. Simple is good. Many good interfaces are simple, but provide for expansion.

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Bejron

July 22nd, 2007 at 11:51am

Please, put any kid in front of a computer with a touch screen and after you have shown him/her/it how to open folders and move them the kid will do it on it’s own.

It’s curiosity/fascination with the visual response they get that makes them do it, not a understanding of the gui.

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Phill Ryu

July 22nd, 2007 at 12:25pm

Bejron, this is a one year old kid unlocking the phone, navigating to photos, and browsing them. That’s some kind of understanding I would think?

Bejron

July 22nd, 2007 at 1:12pm

Do you seriously think that the kid understands the meaning of “unlock the phone” and “what album do you want to see” ???

The kid knows that he will get a reaction when he touches the screen and that is what makes him touch it.

He doesn’t know what kind of reaction he is going to get and can’t connect it to a word unless it has been taught to him by repetition. Learning by repetition (Pavlovian conditioning) doesn’t mean you know the meaning of it, it’s just the memory of a reaction to a action.

A good gui/ui is based on logic and a 1 year old’s logic isn’t developed enough for him to understand that if he pushes the icon for (example) camera he will get the camera, also he doesn’t know what a camera is.

http://www.easychild.com/kids-ages-and-child-development-charts.htm

“Children do not yet have the ability to mentally trace a series of events or easily understand cause and effect relations.” and this is from ages 2-7.
According to this my though/theory of learning by repetition/pavalovian conditioning is also out of the window. Then it’s just random/a lucky shot..

Jared Schwager

July 22nd, 2007 at 2:14pm

I love how Apple designs such good user interfaces. This is a perfect example of how easy Apple products are to use.

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ewcost

July 22nd, 2007 at 3:27pm

Nice find. The second video is the best. I want an iPhone!

Elliott Cost

July 22nd, 2007 at 3:27pm

Nice find. The second video is the best. I want an iPhone!

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MKJones

July 22nd, 2007 at 6:57pm

That’s bullcrap. Try the same thing with a 90yr old and you would be faced with confusion and bewilderment.

Wesley Yendrys

July 22nd, 2007 at 10:30pm

Haha, that’s awesome! I can’t wait for the iPhone to come to Canada. I’m going to be in line for about a day to buy it.

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Ajay B H

July 23rd, 2007 at 9:55pm

Indeed A Great UI design ;) !!

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ChrisFizik

July 24th, 2007 at 9:46pm

geezus

this has nothing to do with the UI design! there is hardly any UI design here, it’s the *technology* that enables this to be simple to use. The kid is bright, and I liked the videos, but really, it’s the technology/hardware that is the enabler here — because it finally allows us to do what we already do with tangible physical objects .. move them around, push them aside, etc. with just our hands/fingers.

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July 27th, 2007 at 11:47am

SO?

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August 18th, 2007 at 12:31am

neat, you trained your kid to slide his hand across a screen

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August 18th, 2007 at 5:15pm

Dude… I wouldn’t like to depreciate the effort of UI designers at SteveJobsIsMyHero.com, but maybe you missed the part of babies being able to learn, and do it pretty damn fast too. It’s obvious this kid had some exposition to the UI and therefore gained some experience.

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