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[Lou Greenwood <lougreenwood@xxxxxx>]

I think Windows phone uses something similar?

My concerns would be:

    (1) Swiping sideways would be too close to the current gesture for 
changing apps.
    (2) How best to indicate that there are currently no pages to the 
right (drilling down), until an action is performed on the current page, 
but if the user moves left (drills up), pages to the right (down) still 
exist? It's hard to explain, in email, but I can see it being difficult 
to nail.

Also the current design and animation (multitasking via RtL swipe) 
indicate that the left edge of the app/screen is it's boundary and 
nothing exists beyond it. It's subtle, but it may affect the mental 
models people build when animations show something different to their 
expectations.



On 12/06/13 13:30, Josh Leverette wrote:
> And, forgot to label the title.
>
> Sincerely,
> Josh
>
> On Jun 12, 2013 7:24 AM, "Josh Leverette" <coder543@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:coder543@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Our recent discussion about a back gesture similar to iOS gave me
>     an intriguing idea. What if each level of a deep stack simply
>     added a page horizontally, and you could freely scroll between all
>     levels of the deep stack as if it were just a wide webpage?
>
>     - there would be no need for a back button or gesture
>     - it would be spatially consistent and require no mental energy
>     from anyone
>     - aesthetically pleasing
>
>     We could have the UI 'snap' to each level of the deep stack after
>     momentum drops far enough, but users could easily move from level
>     to level or all the way to the top. On tablets, they might be able
>     to see all levels of the deep stack at once.
>
>     This is just one of those ideas that's hopefully just crazy enough
>     to work, but not too crazy as to interfere with practicality :)
>
>     Sincerely,
>     Josh