Awesome User Experiences: The browser in Nintendo Spot Viewer

I covered the Nintendo Spot service for DS in Japan earlier in July. Basically it’s a service that lets you download a viewer/browser on to your DS to browse information and download games at McDonald’s.

The viewer/browser of Nintendo provides an awesome user experience for lefties. The browser lets you switch the vertical scroll bar from the right side to the left side (and vice versa) by pressing a button on the top of the scroll bar.

You can see the browser being demonstrated in the following YouTube video.

It’s a very neat feature for pen / stylus based interfaces. I also think it should be implemented in computer operating systems too. For example, Mac OS X doesn’t let you configure the position of the vertical scroll bar. A lefty who uses one of the Wacom tablets would greatly appreciate this feature.