A word search game built for the iPhone Duo.

Closed

466 × 678 pt

Folded shut, the Duo is a compact phone and Words with Mia is the word search you know: the board on top, the word list below, in portrait. The tabs sit in the status column next to the clock, so the board keeps the room.

Open

951 × 669 pt, landscape

Unfolded in landscape, the game splits into two columns. The board takes the left half, the words and buttons the right. The gutter between them lies on the fold, so no button ever sits on the crease. Here too the tabs sit in the status column next to the clock.

Book

Half folded, upright

Fold the Duo halfway and hold it like a book. Words with Mia follows, with a page on either side of the fold and nothing to tap on the spine.

Tabletop

Half open on a table

Stand the Duo half open on a table. The words sit on the upright half above the fold, where you read them. The board lies on the flat half below, where you tap. Your hands stay free and the screen stays still.

The board and the list stop competing

A word search is two things: a grid of letters and a list of words. On a regular phone they share one screen, one above the other. Open on the Duo, each gets its own half, and the list stays in view while you search the board.

Unfolding never interrupts

Opening or closing the Duo is a live switch. The layout changes from one column to two and back, and the board, the words you found and the puzzle you are on stay where they were.

Nothing on the crease

Every button sits on a flat part of the screen. Open, the gutter between the columns lies on the fold, and in tabletop mode the board you tap lies flat on the table.

Hands free at the table

In tabletop mode the Duo holds itself up. Read the list above the fold, find the words on the flat half below, and play a whole board without holding the phone.