Get zooming

Piece by Jeff Goldman in The Feature about how “ zoomable user interface ” could be in the cellphone ’s future :

In terms of computer memory capacity , mobile telephone just keep getting better , but screen size is a problem . Smartphones are now able to stack away everything from photos to documents : finding your ally ’s sound phone number by scrolling through an alphabetic listing is one thing , but how will you feel a file or pic among century when all you have to help you is a two - inch screen ? Zoomable user interface , or ZUIs , may be the answer . Imagine being able-bodied to see all of the single file on your speech sound by plainly zoom out to see an overview of all information , and then zooming in to pick the item you want . That ’s a much more attractive proposition than scrolling through a hundred - item leaning .

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