{"id":23641,"date":"2018-12-10T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23641"},"modified":"2018-12-10T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T20:03:12","slug":"the-thumb-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/10\/the-thumb-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thumb Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joecieplinski.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/10\/the-thumb-zone\/\">Joe Cieplinski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/joecieplinski.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/10\/the-thumb-zone\/\">\n<p>Unfortunately, phone manufacturers and software developers have all but thrown the one-hand principle out the window in recent years. The allure of larger and larger screens has decreased the thumb-reachable percentage of the screen significantly. And yet, much of our software, particularly on iOS, has failed to accommodate.<\/p>\n<p>When the first iPhone was released, with its puny 3.5-inch screen, I could easily reach every corner with either thumb. On an iPhone XS Max, with its gargantuan 6.5-inch screen, I&rsquo;m lucky to reach even 60% of the total screen area without a second hand. And yet, Navigation bars, with their all-important Cancel and Done buttons, and many other controls are still located at the top of the screen, way out of thumb&rsquo;s reach.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Cieplinski: Unfortunately, phone manufacturers and software developers have all but thrown the one-hand principle out the window in recent years. The allure of larger and larger screens has decreased the thumb-reachable percentage of the screen significantly. And yet, much of our software, particularly on iOS, has failed to accommodate. When the first iPhone was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-12-10T20:03:14Z","apple_news_api_id":"0a041b87-5a6a-45d5-9878-da5c83fcc82f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-10T20:03:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ACgQbh1pqRdWYeNpcg_zILw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[77,31,1610,26,85,1765],"class_list":["post-23641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp","tag-iphone","tag-recaf"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23642,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23641\/revisions\/23642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}