Idea: Slowly move finger down side bar to one-by-one quickly view 15 posts in one continuous gesture (#74)

Purpose is to make navigating posts easy without requiring scrolling multiple times and without requiring even one swipe for each time you want to view a post.

Start on the feed. Press and drag finger down the right side bar. The top of the bar represents the first post, and the bottom of the bar represents the fifteenth post, and reaching the last post causes the side bar to animate upward so you start back at the top again. So to go back up you can either swipe down as per usual phone interaction, or press on the top of the bar to cause the bar to animate back down. Designed by D.J. Sherrets.

Feed today:

• Facebook and Instagram require using the default system approach for scrolling which requires quick gestures to accelerate scrolling and slower gestures such as dragging to only move the screen as far as the finger is being dragged.
• Problem is that sometimes people want to quickly get through content and so are required to quickly make gestures while the content moves by too quickly to identify.
• In general, people are required to make more gestures than necessary.

Proposed idea:

1. Start on feed. Drag finger on right side and note that about 1/15th of the vertical space of the phone movement of the finger gets to a threshold where the next post loads.
2. Then another 1/15th gesture moves to the next post, and so on.
3. Then a gesture back up 1/15th of the vertical space of the phone moves to the last post, and so on. Or the user can press on the bar to jump to a particular post on the feed.

Comments:

• Opportunity is to make viewing lots of content as easy as slowly moving the finger down the right side where a bar shows space for each next post.
• Note that the scroll bar changes position for each new post being viewed.
• When more posts have been viewed than there is room on the sidebar to show, then the side bar animates start a new full bar of content to navigate. The user can still get to the top by tapping on the top middle bar of the app as happens on Facebook and Instagram.
• So getting to the last post would actually expand down the list of the bar so that the 15th post is then actually showing the second to top position, so you can still access the prior list by tapping on the top open space.

Designed by D.J. Sherrets.

© 2016 D.J. Sherrets