Smart Box Design is laying bare the development process of WordPop! for iPad and it should make for an interesting build up to the eventual release. This is reason alone to buy the iPad for me- all those bigger tiles and bigger words… Can’t wait!
“The iPad is designed without a specific orientation. Applications will mostly be viewed in portrait or landscape mode, however for games it can be put on a table and viewed from above (such as playing checkers).
One of the first steps in redesigning WordPop! for the iPad was to create some simple layouts for each orientation. At first we were not sure if we had to support both landscape and portrait, as this was not required for the iPhone. There was much debate in chat rooms but it was soon put to rest with this simple quote from The iPad Human Interface Guidelines “Although you might not have supported all orientations in your iPhone application, you must do so in your iPad application.” With that now settled we created a wire frame layout for each orientation. This gave us an idea on much room to reserve for the WordPop! machine and how much space remained for new features…”
