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26 mar. 2012

Twitter has a patent pending on pull-to-refresh

The pull-to-refresh patent • Dustin Curtis

I’ve been wondering why Apple hasn’t implemented pull-to-refresh in any of its apps. It is a fundamentally better user experience for refreshing time-based list items. As it turns out, patents may be the issue. In a patent titled “User Interface… | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.

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