[matmik]

Good blogpost, and it's a very, very valid point. I read the HIG up and down so many times and kept changing the UI.

The best way I ended up trying to get a "feel" of how this would work, was to add the designs to Flinto on an iPod touch, then covering up the rest of the screen except for the Apple Watch size. That way we could scroll around, etc. It worked for the feel of the size, but it's not a replacement for the real world use of it, of course.

There were definitively a few ah-ha moments when using it for the first time on an actual device, but I do feel we hit the experience pretty well. Apple has also featured the app as one of the best new apps for the Apple Watch, which is pretty awesome :) But yeah, completely understand your reasoning.