Delightful Visual Search History in Google iPad App

Another delightful feature of the updated iPad app is the introduction of the visual sliding history.
If you slide the main page from left to right, the app discloses a hidden panel that displays all recently performed searches.



This alone was good enough to make me smile, until when I discovered that the history was actually a stack of the pages associated with the search.

Tapping on the stack would unfold it and displays all the pages in a scrolling horizontal list. That was a wow moment for me.

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Undo as an Inverse-Clock

Paper, which is a free sketching app on the iPad, has a lovely implementation of the undo. It was kind of tricky to bring up the undo, but when I figured how, it was just beautiful. When the widget comes up you can go back in time by moving the finger with a rotatory motion. It animates the progressive undo of every stroke. It is like an inverse clock. Brilliant!

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