Abandon the hope of value-add through weirdness.

This is such great take away from Jakob Nielson’s iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing:

Abandon the hope of value-add through weird­ness. Better to use con­sis­tent inter­ac­tion tech­niques that empower users to focus on your con­tent instead of won­der­ing how to get it.

This study is just turn­ing one year old, but it’s a great read full of rel­e­vant gems like this. It’s been a fan­tas­tic resource as I’m cur­rently in charge of UX devel­op­ment for an iPad mag­a­zine web app at Voltage. The full ver­sion of the 93-page report is avail­able for down­load here: Usability of iPad Apps and Websites.