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Experts Say Gestural Interfaces Are a Step Backwards In Usability

Posted by samzenpus on from the wave-to-the-past dept.

smitty777 writes "Veteran usability experts Donald A. Norman and Jakob Nielsen wrote an interesting article lamenting the current state of the art in gesture interfaces. According to them, the lack of standards for interacting with these devices puts us on par with the '94 vintage in web design, when designers discovered they could make the buttons and UI look like anything they wanted."

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  1. This is giving me ideas... by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    puts us on par with the '94 vintage in web design, when designers discovered they could make the buttons and UI look like anything they wanted.

    Hmm... this has given me some good ideas for an iOS app I'm farting around with. However, I can't find how to add faux-BLINK tagged text and Geocities-type spinning, flaming skulls in Interface Builder...

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    1. Re:This is giving me ideas... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't blink! Blink and you're dead. This control is fast,faster than you can imagine. Good luck.

  2. Re:patents by AndyAndyAndyAndy · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's actually a particular gesture that's widely standardized to address this type of thing. At least in the US.

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  3. Re:It has been a generation since 1994. by marqs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its not as if generations move through the industry in a block, like tribal age-group initiates.

    Why do you tell me this now?
    Does this mean that my initiation rite was all bogus?
    Is the tribal tattoo made with the old IBM dot matrix printer and the piercings made with the hole card puncher just a way to make fun of me?