Comments on: Home Screen Shoot Out http://www.geardiary.com/2008/10/20/home-screen-shoot-out/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher Gavulahttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/10/20/home-screen-shoot-out/#comment-40207 Christopher Gavula Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:32:05 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/10/20/home-screen-shoot-out/#comment-40207 It's kind of a big leap to assume that users were happy with the traditional WM menus/today screen before the iPhone came along. I seem to remember that there were studies a few years back actually showed that people preferred the interface from the Palm devices, but the apps from WM. That aside it is a good look at some alternate interfaces for the WM platform. There are definitely good alternatives to the traditional interface and to some of the resource-hungry options from HTC. It’s kind of a big leap to assume that users were happy with the traditional WM menus/today screen before the iPhone came along. I seem to remember that there were studies a few years back actually showed that people preferred the interface from the Palm devices, but the apps from WM.

That aside it is a good look at some alternate interfaces for the WM platform. There are definitely good alternatives to the traditional interface and to some of the resource-hungry options from HTC.

]]>