1. iPod Settings: Party Mode off
   
   
2. Party Mode Settings: off
   
   
3. Party Mode Settings: on
   
   
   1. Wi-Fi toggle for battery conservation.
   2. Though not depicted, Brightness controls might also make sense.
   3. There is a good argument for allowing action-specific sound toggling. My thinking is that for the time the iPod is in Party Mode, it’s just a music player. You don’t want spam landing in your inbox to interrupt a jam.
   4. Enable a Passcode if you want to retain iron-fisted control.
   5. Restrictions would allow you to hide any individual app other than Music and Settings. For example, you might want to block those with personal information such as Contacts and Mail while the iPod is sitting unattended.

In my experience, iPhones users don’t offer up their devices for party music, which is understandable given that you might need your phone to take calls from guests, etc. Were a Party Mode offered on the iPhone, options to silence the ringer and send calls directly to voicemail would be useful.

1. In Day view, tap and hold the event.
   
   
2. With your other hand, tap the forward (or back) triangle button in the date bar.
   
   
3. Alternatively, while still holding the event, swipe from right to left to go to the next day (or vice versa for the previous).
   
   
4. The event is moved to the next (or previous) day at the same time. The event box would always remain beneath the tapped spot, nudging overlapping event boxes aside if necessary.
   
   

Problems with the Method

1. Not easily discoverable
2. Requires two hands or Evgeny Kissin-level finger dexterity
3. Only works cleanly in Day view, though variations for List and Month could work

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After releasing the screen, the total row is hidden again.

The current event details screen:

Slightly tweaked to indicate the location is actionable:

Location field input is not structured, so Calendar would simply pass whatever text it contains to Maps as the search string. Some heuristics around the text would be nice; if I typed “Joe’s house” in the Location field and one of the attendees is a contact named Joe Smith, the input string could be replaced by Joe’s home address.

Using a few different size dots based on the number of events scheduled would allow users to see which days are particularly busy without having to switch the main view mode to Month or view the particular day — without adding much visual clutter. Granted, I don’t have the busiest schedule.

All phones have a way to switch them from audible to vibrate, but do you want to deal with that in the middle of a proposal?

The three options would be:

1. Phone default
2. Ring tone
3. Silent ringer

A ringer configuration interface should also be available in the iPhone’s calendar application. Event ringer settings would be synced.

Events that occur within a longer event (e.g., multi-day events) would override the enclosing event’s setting. If events overlap, the setting for the latter event overrides that of the earlier unless the earlier is set to silent ringer.

This would also be great for concerts, either because you don’t want to interrupt a violin solo or you won’t hear an audible ringer during the shred guitar solo (depending on the music). Also, finding what may be a physical switch is not necessarily easy in a darkened venue.

Book List

The screen you initially see after pressing the Books app icon on the Home screen:

Pressing Title switches the sorting method:

Searching

Pressing Search on the bottom button row triggers a sliding transition; the navigation buttons are replaced by a search field and Search button. The keyboard appears below.

Pressing Books returns to the list with the last active sort in effect.

Table of Contents

Nothing too special…

Book Info

Additional book details such as the original publisher and publication date. I haven’t settled on exactly what metadata should be displayed here.

Pressing the cover overlays a large version. The two-fingered spread/pinch gesture could zoom in and out.

Index

Assuming an index is embedded in the book file (or automagically generated), this would be an alternative to Search.

Pressing on a index entry displays excerpts of sentences containing the phrase in order of appearance. Pressing one of these navigates to the page.

The Book

The page structure of the physical book should be retained, but a continuous scrolling interface sounds better to me than using paging. Pages are an implementation detail (unless you are reading scrolls). The pinch/spread gesture could be used here to decrease and increase the text size, automatically reflowing the text (minding widows and orphans!). Pressing on illustrations would either overlay them similar to the cover in the Info view or open them on their own screen. If the illustration has a title and caption, a separate screen with a Go Back-type button would probably be preferable.

The zipped Keynote ’08 file has links set up to give some idea as to the flow. Keynote’s animation tools have improved, but they are not yet to the point where I can comfortably create the transition animations that I have in mind for a book reader.

Yes, there would be a Cover Flow view when in landscape orientation. You can mock that up with your imagination. No, I do not have an iPhone. I hate phones, but I do like books.

How about an SDK, Apple?