Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2011, 19:30:34 schrieb Calum Benson: > ...Of course we'd like to minimise the > number of things that you have to do differently for touch screens, but > experience with other platforms suggests that sometimes you just have to > do things a different way on different devices if you want the optimum > user experience. > > Cheeri, > Calum.
I disagree with the idea of coevolution. If touch input is captured reliable (which I doubt) it still lacks of precision. Beside of all more design related issues (size, position, feedback etc.) some core functions are hardly to realize. For instance, I cannot imagine how to resize a window, or how to place a cursor on a certain position, not to mention tooltips, drag 'n drop and so on. Additionally, more clicks are needed to start a program without menus (as with the new Shell concept or Unity). As far as I see, conventional operations are "translated" into a new world currently. Functions get a gestural analogy and some design adoptions. I'd like to suggest a split. On a desktop PC with keyboard and mouse we have sophisticated procedures that should be kept. On a device without these inputs functionality should be changed completely. I don't have a final solution yet, unfortunately, but there seems to be much potential. A window could be always maximized and any subwindow or frame has to be applied as overlay, drag 'n drop could be replaced partially by "select and point" (as example for the easy part). My idea is not to have up to 40 gestures (like Microsoft) but to reduce functionality. Or do I worry too much? Kind regards, Heiko. -- Dr. Heiko Tietze Senior-Consultant ________________________________________________________________________ Wir binden Anwender in Entwicklungsprozesse ein. ______________________________________________________________________ Apliki Psychologische IT-Beratung Tempelhofer Ufer 1a 10961 Berlin Fon +49 · 30 · 99277999 · 0 Fax +49 · 30 · 99277999 · 9 Mob +49 · 179 · 1268509 Mail heiko.tie...@apliki.de Netz www.apliki.de ________________________________________________________________________ Apliki GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRA 39114 Persönlich haftend: Apliki Beteiligungs GmbH, Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 104921 vertreten durch: Steffen Eßers, Björn Balazs _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
