As we saw in the last post, there’s been much written about the iPad’s convoluted multi-pane interaction system as of iOS13. Here is some of it:
Michael Tsai’s extensive roundup of blog posts and tweets about the subject.
Rene Ritchie’s idea mocked up (YouTube video). Essentially pinch-and-drag a full-screen app to one side to snap it into place, revealing a mini-home-screen to the side, from where you could pick a second app. (How could one use this technique to pick a slide-over app once both apps are visible?)
This tweet from Steve Troughton-Smith about how Windows 8.1 implemented multi-pane apps. It’s worth noting what a difference the presence of a persistent taskbar (and start button) made. And that given enough screen width, you could have an arbitrary number of horizontally snapped windows.
Finally, this three-year-old post from Federico Viticci on the idea of a ‘shelf’ to hold a set of app icons and the ability to reveal it and drag and snap apps in place. This was before iOS 11 and the current multi-pane system. iOS 10 had the limited ability to add a second app from a hidden tray to the right of the screen, first introduced in iOS 9.