“Touch People’s Hearts.” That’s the translated title of the Chinese edition of my book Tapworthy (触动人心), and I couldn’t be more tickled. Indefatigable translator Jason Bao sent me this copy, and it just arrived today:
Tapworthy is also available in:
Japanese (_思わずタップしたくなるアプリのデザイン, or “Applications you’ll want to tap involuntarily”)
Spanish (Diseño y usabilidad de aplicaciones iPhone, or rather dryly, “Design and usability of iPhone applications”)
English, my mother tongue… and the only one, it seems, where the word “Tapworthy” makes any sense.
In an interview with Imran Chaudhri, the iPhone interface’s original designer says Apple knew the phone would be distracting and attention-soaking—and chose to bury the controls to make it less so.
