The Dreaded Gutter Arrow is Back!!

[geekmaster]

um it looks very premium i think. even better than "the gutter" in my opinion. It makes the home screen look and feel like a high quality webpage. please don't tread on me...

 

[CSJr1]

I think you are the only one to have seen its return. Please show us some screen shot or something to let the rest of us in on it.

At second 29.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQwzYtKSBD0

 

[jdevenberg]

I saw it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is a new gutter under your last set of tiles and the arrow lives there now! I'm sooooo excited!!!!


To add to my previous post, the arrow's smooth, gradual rotation when you slid from home screen to app tray showed me how smooth the WP interface was, and that it was much closer to iPhone quality than android was. In 2009 android had nothing nearly as smooth and fluid graphically as that lovely arrow.

Again, im very happy right now. Way to go MS!!! Its the little details like this that set you apart from the rest.


P.S. I realize I am way more excited about the arrow's return than is healthy.

 

[jhoff80]

At second 29.

Nokia Lumia 920 - Screen Works with a fork and wear gloves - YouTube

Aah, never noticed that before, I guess that's why I misunderstood. Not really a big deal, I don't think, especially it's at the bottom where people will rarely see it.

 

[the_thunderbird]

OMG.

I will now not buy any WP8 device

Does look a tad out of place... but... who cares?

 

[freestaterocker]

Arrow is not dumb. You are hurting its feelings. It felt like such a big part of the WP7 home screen and wanted to continue on with WP8. It does not see why it was let go in favor of real estate that actually left less room vertically for tile space. Arrow would have happily accepted a smaller amount of space.

Arrow would also like to remind everyone that he was not just a swipe indicator, you could also tap him to make the screen slide. Just like that smug 3 dot guy at the bottom. Tapping him opens a menu. However he can't work by swipe and he does not even do a little dance when you tap him.

3 dot guy does the swipe dance quite well, actually. I usually swipe up on him as a more deliberate motion. Great post, though!

 

[oldgaius]

It's important, given the market Microsoft will be going for: first-time smartphone buyers and switchers. The nice thing about WP is the interface prompts, e.g. the jumpy lock screen (to encourage a push or swipe), the arrow (which logically links the start screen and apps screen), the titles in apps (which can be tapped to move to next pane but encourages swiping and movement).

It should be easy to pick up and use a Windows Phone device, and without these prompts many people would be left guessing.

 

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[Winterfang]

Once I realized I didn't had to click the arrow go to right ( Windows Phone is my first smartphone, I tried to used it like a computer at first) the arrow became a pointless waste of space.

 

[power5]

3 dot guy does the swipe dance quite well, actually. I usually swipe up on him as a more deliberate motion. Great post, though!

Actually you are probably activating it because you are touching it. Try swiping the menu down after it scrolls up. Nothing happens, but if you swipe down on the 3 dots, it does scroll away.

I guess instead of just a general indication of more apps, now its basically like writing "continued on next page" at the bottom of a letter.

I would still rather have seen the entire gutter. Especially since its not even the same arrow that rotates back and forth. There is an arrow at the top of the app list page and an arrow at the bottom of the start screen page. Not very consistent which is more evident in win8 than ever was in wp7. Everything was always identical in all apps. Makes it very easy to use. All apps have menu at bottom. iOS apps have menu buttons all over the place. Some down side, some at top, some at bottom. Settings were always hard to figure out where they were too. Some in the app, some in the settings menu. WP7 was very consistent at least and made it easy to know where things were expected to be.

w8 is moving away from that. Some menu commands are bottom right, some bottom left, some swipe from right.

 

[Ian Drake]

The gutter is gone and that's all that matters.

 

[wormy6]

This might sound silly but I actually decided to not buy a WP7 because of this ugly gutter. That was before I realized WP is pretty cool though. Now I am waiting for WP8.

I am a little disappointed its not available as an option... Windows has always been about customization in the past. ;(

 

[socialcarpet]

Don't care one way or the other.