One of the themes for the current app I'm writing is based on the HUDs and UIs in the film Prometheus. I really love the look and have tried to recreate it as best I can.
I took the circular status indicators in the middle of the HUD above and made sliders with the same look. This was an early design.
This had the look that I wanted but there was one thing wrong with this picuture that isn't immediately obvious. Typically users will be using their right index finger or thumb, depending on how they hold the iPad, to move the slider. This means their hand will obscure the value being displayed on the right. So now it's been moved over to the left so the user won't have to do any unusual contortions in order to see what they are doing.
Very simple, but can be easily overlooked especially if we as developers are used to the mouse-desktop paradigm where obscuring controls doesn't occur.
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