an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area
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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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Are there gesture specific UI elements that are in common use outside of games? [closed]
With tablets and other touch/gesture devices around plus the prevalence of HTML5/CSS3, I have been looking for examples of new UI elements that are becoming more popular. However, I am surprised that ...
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How to get native-like swiping through a grid of photos in a web app [closed]
So our app is http://map.wigwamm.com
We display full screen images of property for rent. Each vertical is one property.
So swiping left and right gives you more property.
Swiping up and down shows ...
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Do touch screens have a harmful psychological effect on people?
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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Mock Up program for touch gestures [closed]
You have all heard of balsamiq and mockingbird as mock up programs. I want to take that quesion a bit farther, is there any program where I can build a mockup and add interacivity to it?
I know ...
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How to avoid hiding the region of interest with the finger?
Let's say you have an element, for example a pair of glasses, that you want to put over an existing element on the canvas, a face. This needs to be done with precision. (In this example I could cheat ...
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Should you optimize mobile experiences based on individual handedness?
In abbood's question "How to implement a stack exchange style voting for mobile?" he answers his own question with the following mock-up:
My immediate thought was that the up-vote control was on ...
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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 ...
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Touch Screen equivalent (or best alternative) to a Type-Ahead Search Field
Type ahead fields are convenient in desktop applications, but what is the best alternative in a touch screen "kiosk" environment. We need to utilize the Windows OS keyboard and it becomes cumbersome ...
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Are there any special design guidelines for big touch screens (30–50 inch)?
I'm about to develop an application for a large touch screen (around 40″).
Now to my question, are there any special design guidelines for such a large screen? I have read Android/iOS/Windows RT ...
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Accordion Menu or Static Menu Options for Touch Screen optimization
I'm in the process of redesigning dialog menus for our application. The biggest reason is to make the application touch friendly. But these menus will be used in both touch and mouse environments.
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App menu created from keywords
I have application which allow users to select video and play it. I have for each video few keywords and with help of WordNet I created tree from these keywords. So now user can go from generally ...
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What is the reason behind the upper-case-lower-case behaviour of the Apple iOS keyboard?
On Windows and Android phones/tablets the case of the keypad letters alters when pressing SHIFT:
But Apple seems to ignore this presumably useful feature. Does Apple really know it's better NOT to ...
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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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How do you provide interaction in plots and graphs on touch devices?
Traditional graphs like this
http://dygraphs.com/tests/range-selector.html or http://www.highcharts.com/products/highstock have tooltips to indicate the values at cursor position. Since there is no ...
