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iPhone - Re-envision Your Web Site Design

by Steven

All my friends have iPhones. I don't have one, and I have to admit that I am jealous -- at times I've even been a hater. The phone's interface is absolutely amazing; an interface that allows you to move and expand things with your fingers like that is not only going to be the future of mobile computing, but is going to change any computer interface. Imagine being able to truly interact with your computer the same way you would with your Lego blocks when you were a kid. This kind of interaction will help us be able to understand data in a much more intuitive way than through excel pivot tables. It will not require someone to be an excel maven to be able to analyze data.

Imagine the opportunity this presents to asset managers for investors and advisors. It will enable us to present data in a non-linear, visual, intuitive way: there will be no need to define variables that no investor can understand, and no complicated instructions on how to run a financial model. The popularity of the iPhone-like interface shows us that we can start designing Web sites that are truly visual and that take advantage of this highly intuitive interactivity.

To illustrate the future of computing, check out Jeff Han show off a cheap, scalable, multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click.

(Microsoft will release this kind of interface technology in its Windows 7 version.)

I guess, then, in the name of progress and research, I will have to break down and buy myself an iPhone.