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Lateral Access

Whether you’re a student in college, a design professional, or an author of a book, you have all experienced the clutter of notes, reminders, memos, drawings, and documents scattered across the surface of your desk. There comes a point in this chaotic, unorganized display, when your tidy instinct begs for some order.

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Peel Away

The Peel Away pattern is like the Tabs, and many others in this chapter, in that it simulates a real world interaction.

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Simulated 3D Effects

Extending the physical-simulation conceits of theTabs and Peel Away, other types of Simulated 3D Effects can be used to pretend the screen, or items on it, are dimensional, physical objects.

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Pagination

Pagination control can be implemented very simply in any type of interface. This does not mean that quite complex, graphical or interactive methods may not be used instead.

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Location Within

Whether text or graphics, the Location Within can easily be implemented on any interface. Some OSs will have a built-in style for at least some cases, which should be used.

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Scroll

When more information is in the page or element than can fit in the viewport, you need to provide a method to access this information.

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Pop-Up

Pop-Up is a child "page" smaller than the viewport, that appears on top of the parent page or display context which spawned it. For mobile, these should almost always be "modal," with the Pop-Up having exclusive focus.

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