Friday, March 19, 2010
MobileRSS has a really nice approach to the whole ‘screen rotation lock’ idea. Most apps I’ve seen that allow you to lock the screen orientation (for instance, if you want to read on your side in bed and don’t want the screen flipping around constantly) simply have an on / off option buried somewhere in the app’s preferences.
MobileRSS, however, pops up a small icon in the centre of the screen whenever you change your phone’s orientation. Tap the icon, the padlock locks, and the screen’s orientation is locked. If you don’t tap the icon, the screen rotates as normal, and the icon fades out a second later.
Simple, clever, discoverable when you need it, and it’s fun for the user to work out how to use it.
