{"id":6789,"date":"2012-07-03T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6789"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T17:15:29","slug":"shopping-on-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/shopping-on-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing for iPad Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tablets are on a tear this year, as predicted. It seems like virtually everyone we know has one, and we’ve been testing every site we build on our iPads.<\/p>\n

Tablets are great for online retail, and a big part of our planning process is ensuring that our designs don’t just look good on an iPad, but they work good too<\/strong>. That means testing that scrolling works as expected, tap areas are appropriately sized, things respond to common touch gestures as expected, and so on.<\/p>\n

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This report via GigaOm<\/a> is a fascinating and fairly thorough survey showing that tables – iPads, specifically – are ideal for shopping online. This quote certainly caught our eye.<\/p>\n

Heinemann thinks that tablets can do even better than PCs if websites start tailoring their experiences<\/em> for them. Right now, most are still oriented toward a desktop experience. But there is still more optimization that can be done for tablets, including better touch navigation and bigger links.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iPads are on the rise and that means tailoring web experiences that are ideal for online shopping for the iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[665],"tags":[55],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DeathtoStock_Medium10.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}