iPad app usability better, but issues persist: report
A year ago, Jakob Nielsen’s firm, Nielsen Norman Group (NNG) looked at the usability of apps on the world’s hottest new computing device, the iPad. What it found: problem areas that create “significant user confusion.” The three most prominent: low discoverability, low memorability and accidental activation of UI elements.
At the time NNG conducted its study, the iPad was new, so it wasn’t unexpected to see that iPad apps were still rough around the edges usability wise. The tablet is a decidedly different device, and with no best practices yet developed based on real-world observation, developers of iPad apps were sort of left to experiment.