CIO - While the Apple iPhone is known for its great simplicity, some apps drive users absolutely crazy. The problems stem largely from certain app's poorly designed manipulation of the iPhone's touch features, as well as confusing button placement.
"There's a set of guidelines [developers] can get from Apple that say, here's what icons you should use for these type of functions and here's how you should lay them out," says Bill Westerman, principal and CTO of Create with Context, a design and research firm. "This gets you 70 percent of the way there, but then there's this other 30 percent that are de facto standards which have evolved over time." And if developers don't follow them, user frustration ensues.
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