5 Ways That Android Is Trying To Break The Mobile UI Paradigm

5 Ways That Android Is Trying To Break The Mobile UI Paradigm | Co.Design: business + innovation + design.

A MUST read for the Design team at MARC. Let’s try to get our thinking going in this direction. It will add to more creativity and options. Let go of the button… let go of the button.. let go of the button…

Application interfaces have always felt like functional assemblies of buttons. Because, after all, they took their cues from machines. Want to make a machine do something? Push a button. But as you flip through Ice Cream Sandwich’s screens, you get a much different feeling. Each screen feels lightweight, as if it were a page in a magazine, rather than a set of knobs and switches. Even the phone dialer looks light and sleek. It’s clear how to use it, of course. It just doesn’t feel so … buttony.