Live from Las Vegas (5)

Matias Duarte is giving an overview of the user interface. Start with the big gorgeous screen with your customized wallpaper image on it.

To start something, tap an icon.  Scroll with a gesture through, say, a contact list.

RP: I can't believe it!

JZ: The gesture area creates a whole new type of navigation. All basic navigation is just gestures -- no buttons to clutter things up.

RP: It's so smooth -- all the transitions are incredibly smooth. There's no lag. I'm dreaming! This is everything everyone has asked for.

JZ: More from Matias: This is really simple UI. With webOS, your favorite icon can be in the favorites area. But you can move them around with a wave gesture. You have to see it to understand this. (Soon!)

But even more fundamentally, to work on a mobile device, you need a different metaphor than a desktop metaphor from your PC. We use a deck of cards that you can move through with one hand as our basic metaphor. Every app is a card, and you can shuffle through these cards with gestures. And to make sure you don't lose any data, everything is automatically saved all the time -- you won't find a save button anywhere in this interface.

RP: Shut up!