The Interaction of Lion’s “Natural Scrolling”
Perhaps one of the most recent demonstrations of this would be Apple’s natural scrolling which they just “introduced” with the release of OS X Lion. It’s getting a pretty bad rap, and a lot of people are complaining about it. Which I think is very strange, but I completely understand. We just aren’t thinking about it properly. While it was technically just introduced, we’ve been using it for years. On our iPhones, iPods, iPads, Android OS phones and tablets, and various other touch based hardware. Does it make more sense on a mobile device? Sure. But that’s only because we weren’t already in the habit of using a scroll wheel on our phones (I don’t want to hear about how your old Blackberry had a scroll ball on it).
(Source: roberthaverly.com)
