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Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing
When we brought our desktop-class video editing capabilities to iOS, we learned some interesting lessons along the way. In this article, we’ll share the key user experience learnings from our design and development process.
Timelines map time to space Modern iOS user interfaces appear flipped in right-to-left languages: the buttons and controls are in different horizontal positions. Even the familiar drill-down navigation animates to the left when drilling deeper into the hierarchy, and the Back button sits in the upper right corner, its chevron pointing to the right. To make this difference visible, clips with a finite footage duration reveal a ghost outline in the background while they are resized, featuring marching ants.
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