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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. Re:This is giving me ideas... by hjf · · Score: 3, Informative

    You forgot the roadblock with the "Under Construction" sign.

  2. Re:YES!!! This is why the android bugs me so much! by cduffy · · Score: 3, Informative

    People who suggest Task Killer don't know how Android works.

    Android applications do not run in the background unless they go out of their way to do so. When they *do* go out of their way to do so, they can be killed at any time by the operating system. This design makes tools such as "Advanced Task Killer" not only unnecessary, but counterproductive; read the link above for a detailed description of why auto-killing background tasks actually makes Android *slower*.