Nytimes iPad app
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- gregorywieber
Any one using this? I really liked the editor's choice app they had out before. This is a bigger app, but there's a lot that bothers me.
1) I liked that the editor's choice app was focused. 'Editor's choice', i.e. a limited selection of things, makes sense for something like the iPad.
2) They've put the navigation in the lower left corner. That's really irritating since you want to hold the device like a paper or magazine, and if you're lounging, you're hands are more likely to be towards the top of the device. This means you've got to move down to the bottom, and it's an awkward reach. Very un-ergonomic. It's pretty standard on apps to use top left for back buttons -- they've abandoned that, it appears, for no functional reason. The bottom bar could easily be moved to the top. It seems to have been an aesthetic decision that completely ignores the human user concerns.
Wishing for the older simpler editor's choice app...