Sometimes my mom gets confused and doesn’t realize she can scroll a page on her iPhone. She just forgets about scrolling altogether. She’s not dumb, it’s just that virtual user interfaces aren’t her thing.
I was at the Apple store today checking out the new iPad kiosks and noticed this really cool technique for hinting that a page is scrollable. You can see it in the video.
When you display a scrolling page, it first appears below the top. It then scrolls the page to the top effective telling you that you that there’s more to see “below the fold”. Clever.
