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Is there a standard gesture for resetting scale on a pinch-zoom canvas?
I've got an android app with a view of a diagram that can be dragged, rotated and scaled using pinch zoom and other similar gestures. Often times I find that I want to reset back to a canonical view ...
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What's Apple's term for horizontal "swipeable bar"?
I'm looking for the term of the UI element Apple is using pretty often lately. On iPads you can see them on the top of windows to symbolize that the user can drag this. On the iPhone X it replaced the ...
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Swipe direction when designing for Right-To-Left languages?
Books printed for people that reads Right-To-Left (RTL) languages is bound for flipping pages opposite direction of LTR.
What is todays common swipe direction when moving forward to next page/view, ...
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"Fluid Touch" gesture menus on mobile applications
A few weeks ago, I read a blog post about a way to reduce clicks/touches when selecting items from expandable menus:
The most common behavior is touching an icon to open some menu, and touch again on ...
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Research method for touch gesture design
So, I designed/suggested some gesture for some actions for my college project. The design I made is based on common touch gesture (by common, I mean gesture usual gesture like 'tap with one finger' to ...
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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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How to indicate that specific sections of a page can be swiped
There are a lot of mobile UI design patterns that support swiping, and these are designed based on interaction and animation that indicate the behaviour. Examples include the 'swipe/pull down to ...
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What to call the specific pinch gesture
Pinch is used to refer to the thumb and index finger either coming together or moving apart.
Therefore, just to refer to it as pinch isn't exactly accurate because I need to refer to the exact ...
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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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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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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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For touchscreen interaction, are there benefits to knowing a user's preferred hand?
The generally accepted answer to the question on Left-handed persons and usability is that rather than asking users which hand they use in order to determine your layout, you should let them choose ...
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Is shaking a device to refresh an accepted behavior?
I have an app that displays downloaded information that is cached. I could use valuable space to include a button that is used to re-download the information, or I could simply add a "shake the device ...
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How can I teach the user a new gesture?
Our team is building a tool that requires a specific gesture on touch-based devices.
How can we teach the user this gesture?
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Most intuitive zoom gesture that isn't tap-to-zoom/pinch-to-zoom?
With Apple claiming the Tap to Zoom and Pinch to Zoom patents and possibly enforcing them, what is an alternative that is intuitive and still distinct from tap/pinch?
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Initializing gesture from continuous input (computer vision multitouch "click")
I asked a similar question awhile back, but not exactly the same.
I have some multitouch hardware (Microsoft Kinect) that tracks the user in realtime. What is the best technique for initiating a ...
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How do users learn about various gestures that are used on touch screens?
How does the user learn about various gesture in the interfaces?
Does the ipad or android device have inbuilt gestural instructions when someone buys a new device?
Does it demonstrate the gestures ...
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Best range of swipe angles
I have a list that can be scrolled vertically, the entries of which are removed by swiping horizontally. I've found that limiting the left/right swiping to strictly horizontal makes it hard to ...
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iPad tap to edit text: how intuitive is this / how can I make it clear to users?
I am building the following iPad UI, and it includes a "tap-to-edit" feature:
I personally like this type of UX - I like UIs where a user can interact directly with a document. However, I'm ...
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Are there applications or methods for comfortable coding on touch screen devices? [closed]
Coding usually involves a lot of typing, but on touch screen devices too much typing is quite tedious.
Some of that typing could be replaced by autocompletion or autogeneration of code and therefore ...
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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 10,...
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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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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.
Swipe left or right to ...
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UI gestures for Kinect, Kinect-type devices
On touch screen devices, there appears to have evolved a standard set of gestures, e.g.
pinch and spread with two fingers for zoom in and zoom out
swipe with one finger to scroll a document
We're ...
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Multimodal interfaces - best practices
What are best practices in using multimodal interface approaches, e.g. combination of haptic interfaces, voice commands, gestures?
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