You said: "I don't think it's worth debating the term "muscle memory." Pick whatever term you want. " Okay, I'll call it "What you're comfortable with," which could be different for different folks.
But your example doesn't directly apply to iFly. You complain that things can appear in different order in the History list, but the Airport Info popups also appear on different parts of the screen. In both cases, you can't train your finger to go to X,Y and press without looking...you have to pay attention to the screen. In both cases, it's just a matter of which one you're more comfortable with.
AND THAT'S OKAY. It's a touchscreen, not a knurled knob or a toggle switch. It doesn't have the tactile feedback that other cockpit controls have. You're never going to get that do-it-without-looking performance from a touchscreen. (Unless you go with voice recognition, which has its own thousands of issues that cause me to not be a fan today, and possibly ever.)
Your description of a "good" EFB is okay, though incomplete. I'm not here to design the perfect EFB, nor to debate the finer points of such a design. I'm here to get the most out of my iFly.
One thing I learned today is that I've been doing it the hard way to pull up info on my destination airport. Thanks to others who pointed out the better way of doing that.
But if there are other alternate airports that I'm considering, the scroll/zoom is still a factor. Since iFly can't read my mind and won't know my set of candidate airports, I'm content with identifying them myself--once--using the scroll method, so that subsequently I can quickly refer back to them via the History tab.
There's a limit to how "smart" I want iFly to try to be. Popping up guesses at what it thinks I want that aren't correct are no more helpful than unnecessary button presses. If the interface is sufficiently efficient, I am perfectly happy to tell it what I want rather than have it play 20 Questions trying to "intelligently" guess what I want.
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