Questions tagged [touch-screen]
an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area
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Indicating object (of varying shape and size) is selected on a touch interface
What is the best way to indicate that an object (of varying shape and size) is currently selected in a touch interface such as the one below?
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After touch interaction, which location does user's eye most likely go to?
Say I have a list of courses on a mobile device (black square), and a user makes a touch interaction on said course (red circle), which of the following locations would their eye most likely go?
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Indicate a sub-area inside a tappable area is NOT tappable
I have a tappable row (yellow with blue border in pic) which does action A.
However inside this I could have input controls (checkbox, textbox, etc). I have wrapped this area in a non clickable view (...
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Touch-screen equivalent wording for 'scroll'?
When referring to 'scrolling' up/down a page it is intuitive to use the word 'scroll' on a traditional screen (non-touch), because of the mouse scroll wheel etc.
Is it as user-friendly to refer to ...
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Why Android places the Back button on the left? [closed]
I find it extremely frustrating. Majority (about 90%) of all the smartphone users are right-handed. It seems to me that right-handed people would prefer to handle the phone with their right hand. I do....
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Do mobile and touch gestures impact bidirectional screen convention? Any UX research?
We know that users in bi-directional (bi-di) locales (speakers of Arabic and Hebrew) for example read/write text from right-to-left (RTL) and read/write numbers from left-to-right. hence we have bi-di ...
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Eye Travel vs. Touchability on Mobile
If we want a user to perform a certain action, we make it easiest for them to select that option compared to any other available option.
For example, think of a pop-up ad, "Do you want to download/...
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Can I use the same touch gesture to navigate between screens and to interact with content on screen?
I have a situation where I don't really know if there is a possibility that the user experience can get sloppy. Its specifically for an iPhone app if it matters.
Basically, I have two views, a list ...
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Must the buttons of a touch interface be round because of the shape of a finger?
On a touch device (tablet or smartphone for example), is it valid to say that the buttons must be round, because the end of my finger is round? More specifically, will the user understand more easily ...
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Visual feedback of "no new data" after pull-to-refresh
I really like pull-to-refresh as a way to force an update of a reverse-chronological list. However I've noticed a somewhat awkward pattern in my own use of pull-to-refresh, and I assume I'm not the ...
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Where would you place scroll indicator buttons? Left or right of content?
I was wondering if there were any A/B tests carried out for where scroll indicator buttons should be placed. See for example Acquia.com, they have up and down scroll buttons placed, which is good for ...
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Swipe gesture vs prev/next buttons
Let's say you are navigating through an image carousel and you're on a touch device.
Which navigation method do you prefer: prev/next buttons or swipe-left/right gesture?
I'm trying to convince my ...
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Exposing touch screen sensitivity in the UI
Given the growth in the use of touchscreens, how come there's never an obvious touchscreen 'sensitivity' control on screen?
Should this control be included in the UI?
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Multitouch gesture Interaction: Beyond the pinches and swipes.
A mixed bag of interaction and expectation...
You are using the photo app on the iP(hone/od/ad) you know there are a few familiar gestures to interact.
Tap to select an image.
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Do touch screens have a harmful psychological effect on people? [closed]
The touch screen is a radical change in the control of machines. For centuries, machines were operated by physical buttons. Perhaps the most important aspect of user experience for a physical device ...
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Horizontal swipe alternative for websites
Many native apps these days are meant to be used with a horizontal swipe across the entire screen. At my company now, the idea of having our web apps styled in this manner are being thrown around a ...
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Has there been any studies done on when it's useful to have a touchscreen?
Are there any guidelines as to when it's useful to have a touchscreen interface? My first experience was with my smartphone and I thought the touchscreen was great and a huge improvement on usability. ...
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What's the best way to select multiple objects in a multi-touch workspace?
In iOS apps such as Keynote or GarageBand, the user selects multiple objects from the workspace by holding on the first item and then tapping others to toggle their selection state. What are some pros/...
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How can I show popovers on a mobile browser layout?
What is the recommended way to share information pertinent to describing a button on a touch-based mobile browser layout?
For desktop browsers the way to solve this is to use popovers that display a ...
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"mandatories" to take into account for a wide 32" touch screen interface?
What are the best practices/"mandatory issues" to be taken into account and implemented on a 32" wide-aspect touch screen for a totem-kiosk application?
Especially appreciated issues on usability, ...
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Where should the «clear» would work on one or multiple drop-down list on a row?
Allowing a clear button to appear when the user begins typing characters in regular input is very welcome for the touchscreen enable app I'm building. The challenge is to "reset[ear](The clear button ...
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How to display selected filters after closing the filtering panel?
Context: a touchscreen monitor in which the user can choose which business lines or activities can be displayed in a State.
After selecting some of the filters in the box on the left, the user ...
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Does A Slider Control UI Element Like This Exist -- The Joystick Slider?
A standard slider, such as an html5 <input type ="range"/> or its many javascript-enhanced brethren, works by providing a handle that you slide between two endpoints, typically with your mouse ...
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Touchscreen devices: why did the stylus fall out of favor?
It seems to me that devices (such as navigation systems) that use a stylus for touchscreen interaction have become out of of favor. Instead most new devices are intended (i. e. larger buttons etc.) to ...
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Input controls within the bounds of a tappable tile
I have tappable tiles that navigate off to a different page in an app.
Within the bounds of these tiles I have input controls. Interacting with these input controls should have no effect on the ...
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Margin in the mobile web site
I'm working on a survey web site, which I already have a responsive design. Survey questions are sometimes array type, that options are columns, and questions are rows.
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Has Fitts' Law been adapted to Touch screens?
The question Is there any difference in element minimal sizes on 10 and 24 inch touch screens? made me wonder; has Fitts' Law been successfully converted to Touch related events? There's 3D movement ...
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How should modal popups and tool tips be handled in responsive websites?
I am reviewing some website wireframes from a client and have decided to make the new site responsive. I've had pretty good luck so far with responsive theming and design from a few past projects and ...
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Touch screen device (in particular Android) version of a tag cloud
Is a tag cloud acceptable on a touch screen device? The nature of a tag cloud is that you have small links and large links all positioned in close proximity to each other. This can cause issues with ...
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Is there such thing as "touchscreen-friendly" user interface?
My understanding about touchscreen-friendly is that the controls are not too small so that they can be tapped by the finger. Are there "touchscreen-friendly" user interface standards? Or is there even ...
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tooltips on touch
Is there a way to do tooltips on a button in touch devices? On a large screen, if I have a button and some additional content on what that button does, I would use a tooltip.
Suppose am doing ...
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Should the same sound be played for a valid and invalid touch?
I have a GPS device with a solely touch interface. From the beginning, I noticed I was having a hard time using it and I eventually realized why.
Whenever the UI asks me to write something (like a ...
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iPad horizontal swipe
We're having a debate on the direction a user ought to swipe to get to the next asset. Each screen is self-contained information.
Should the user swipe to the right ----> to access the previous asset ...
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How can the Stack Exchange app indicate that code blocks are tappable?
In case you're unaware, there's now an official Stack Exchange Android app. With it comes some new behaviour for code blocks: you can tap them to pop them out and view them in a sorta-full screen view....
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How to differentiate press and hold (long press) in dropdown menu?
We use mega menu in our site, and I am not sure how to make visitors identify that a link i the top navigation has a touch and hold system OR long press in Windows 8.1 and IE11 or in iPad and make ...
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What kind of feedback is appropriate for a two-finger drag gesture?
In a mobile app, I have a two-finger drag gesture as an advanced feature. I already know about the discoverability problems with multi-touch gestures, and this question is not about that aspect.
The ...
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How should I indicate that a status bar item is tappable?
My app adds an icon to the iOS status menu that shows the status of the task that my app carries out. The item goes green when the progress is running, orange when paused, and red to indicate ...
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How to deal with very small droppable area in touch devices?
I'm working on a product customizer in which the user can drop a material directly to parts of the product. The problem is that some parts of the image are very small.
How can I solve the problem ...
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Should I resume a scroll view to last viewed location or last intended location?
As with many apps, I have a scroll view for data. This data can be scrolled normally, and as with almost all scroll views like this, it has the ability for inertia scrolling — to keep scrolling once a ...
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Existing touch gestures meaning "create new"?
I'm looking for any existing touch gestures that mean "create new" (e.g. "create new document", "create new graph", "create new tweet", etc). Can anyone cite any existing "create new" gestures?
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Best practices for button/text arrangement for touchscreen point of sale display GUI
Would it be ill advised to go ahead with a following button arrangement for a point of sale display touchscreen GUI? It somehow doesn't feel right, I've been toying around with it all morning but can'...
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Suitable gesture for zooming out on touchscreens
The standard zoom in, is the single finger double tap or pinch. However, sometimes it would be really handy to be able to zoom out using a single finger action.
What could such an interaction be?
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Pinch-to-zoom and visual feedback with a live video stream
I'm currently developing a tablet application aiming to act as a remote control for a security camera, showing a video live stream from the camera as well as some buttons.
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Paperprototyping a swipe function
I am making my first paper prototypes for a touchscreen interface. In a list view, a single bar in the list has three possible interactions, swipe left swipe right, or tap.
Swiping left will reveal a ...
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Symbol for long touch button?
Long touch has become a common input action on touch devices. Does anyone know of any sign or symbol that means "this only responds to long touch?" On all the long touch uses I've seen you have to ...
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Mimicking touch gestures with JavaScript
I am making a Web page where normally, the user navigates some content by clicking "Next" and "Previous" arrows.
For people who use the Web page from a touch device, I can either leave the arrows as ...
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I'm making a horizontal touch-controlled carousel; should each slide move with or away from my finger?
My carousel is just a generic rectangle with multiple slides which loop around:
---- | --------- | --- /* Where | is the page boundary and the boxes make up slides
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In a full screen mobile game where all corners are taken, where should I put a menu button?
In a full screen mobile game, where all four corners have already been taken to display status and information, where should I put a menu button?
I was relying on the hardware button of Android ...
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Time (duration) entry in webapp - pros/cons of various designs
In designing a way to enter time durations in a website, there are various proposals below. What are the pros/cons from a UX standpoint for both mouse & touch uses.
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