TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Lukas Mathis:

After downloading and playing around with Apple’s new iPhoto for iOS, I felt like I was teleported back to 1998. Touching and gesturing in different ways would make seemingly random things happen. I regularly unintentionally activated features, changed views, opened or closed pictures, and got iPhoto into states I wasn’t sure how to get out of again.

Best look at iPhoto for iOS I’ve seen yet.

iPhoto for iOS is uncharted territory for touch applications because it’s so capable. While I think Apple deserves a bit of slack because of that, it’s also true that they need to think through these gestures and UI concepts, because it’s an application that could influence how people design more complex interfaces, and they should take that responsibility seriously. If we’re going to use gestures for the primary interface to application functions (and I’m not so sure that’s a good idea), we need to make sure they’re right so we can remain consistent with them.