an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area
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Smart phones, touch screens and the “Gorilla arm effect”?
I finally broke down and decided to get a smart phone for myself. While I find it really useful, I can't help wondering if any research has been done on the "gorilla arm effect" of holding a smart ...
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Is touch the ultimate device?
Apple has fallen in love with it, all the smartphone-vendors use it, Microsoft is aiming for it with Windows 8.
But is touch the ultimate device?
Some people will probably answer this question with ...
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Accessibility for touch screen devices (e.g. iPad, iPhone)
By touch screen, I mean things like the iPhone and iPad.
How are touch screen devices being made accessible? Are there any development guidelines that should be adhered to? Could a blind person ...
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Where would you put the 'take' button on a touchscreen phone camera app?
Imagine a simple camera app for a touch screen phone. The app can't use any hardware buttons and needs no other controls than one button to take the picture.
Some things to consider/ideas:
Phone ...
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Tap to hover and double-tap to click?
One of the limitations in mobile design is the lack of any sort of hover state. This is especially problematic when it comes to tooltips.
So why isn't the system one where: single tap = hover and ...
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Symbol for “Swipe Left” [closed]
I'm working on an app that displays a list of ten items (text items) on the screen at a time. If there are more than ten items, the user should be able to "swipe" from right to left to see the next ...
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affordable touch monitors for UI design [closed]
studio is looking for an affordable touch screen monitor. we are looking at trying to get something big, maybe not MASSIVE, but bigger than a 24in for sure. anyone have suggestions.
we've thought ...
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iPad UI: 2-Player Multi-touch Decisions Affecting Game Play
I am working on a game project that resulted from a summer game jam session. I had the "brilliant" idea to try and port the game to the iPad and I now find that I have painted myself into a corner so ...
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back/save or OK/cancel?
I am prototyping a small Android app where the user inputs weights (well, masses).
For the weight input form, I hesitate between
A top bar containing a 'back' button on the left (arrow-like, iOS ...
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Hover state on mobile: Does this sync interaction design on the web and mobile?
I read this news article a while back about apple patenting a touch screen technology that would allow for a hover state. Ever since I have been thinking a lot about how that might effect the mobile ...
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Is clicking here to stay?
I remember seeing a really interesting site a while back that challenged the convention of clicking: http://www.dontclick.it/ (it's a safe site, it uses mouse movement instead of clicking for ...
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Definition on Touch Gestures
Are there any non-platform specific definitions of touch gestures, that are typically used for devices like Android or iPhone.
I'm trying to write a specification for a multi-platform product that ...
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Are Ribbons touch screen friendly?
All over the web, I read that Ribbons are touch screen friendly, that they are made for touch etc. But I never got a real explanation why the Ribbon is as touch friendly as people say.
The icons are ...
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Fallback for MultiTouch pan and zoom
A planned app that will run on tablets that support multitouch needs a graceful fallback for tablets and desktops which don't. I have a view onto a possibly very large 2D electron microscopy image ...
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Smallest button size and spacing for a touchscreen
For a touch screen, such as the iPhone, what is the smallest size for a button you could get away with?
And how closely could they be shoved together?
I've got an app thats going to have a lot of ...
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Are there any design patterns for interacting with 3D objects on a multi touch surface?
I'm in a project were we would like users to interact with a 3D object. Users should be able to zoom, pan and rotate in all dimensions without using extra tools. I'm looking for best-practice design ...
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Do you know of any mobile websites that allows a user to crop a photo for uploading?
I'm curious to see how designers have addressed this problem on a touch-screen device given the size and technical constraints of mobile.
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iPhone (or Touch UI in general) version of limited multi-select?
I have a need to allow a user to select x of n from a list of elements. The specific example is 9 elements out of perhaps 20.
This would be in the context of a settings context (rather than a form ...
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How will multi-touch computer design impact the future of User Experience? [closed]
Today I came across a video for a multi-touch, large screen user interface prototype, designed by a company called "Second Story" in Portland, Oregon. I am excited about the direction this will go. I ...
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Should an iPhone application scroll to the top of a table when resorting
My application has a table view with a segmented control in a navigation bar. When the users taps a segment in the segmented control, the application fades the table into it's newly sorted state. The ...
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Best ways to replace the combobox selection (aka single select) for touch interfaces.
The combobox has two benefits: a) fits in limited realestate and b) signals single selection to the user.
What are the best alternatives for touch screens which minimize interacts? Combobox demands ...
