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August 12, 2011 04:23 am GMT
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Apple Patents Hint At Multi-Part Gestures, Touchable OS X
Designing a user interface for touch isn't an easy thing to do. At least, it isn't easy to do well. The great number and variety of gestures possible when four fingers and a thumb hit a touchscreen may well cause development and design paralysis. Yet the gestures we see implemented often seem so simple and intuitive that as soon as we perform them once, we wonder how anyone would have trouble coming up with it.Apple's early success with the simple and intuitive gestures on the iPhone has actually worked against it in a way, as adding gestures over-complicates a UI known for accessibility. On the other hand, it has prevented them from providing richer gestures like drawing shapes, creating spontaneous UI items, and so on. But I doubt they ever stopped looking into it. Some newly published patent applications, while questionable as far as patentable ideas go, is chock-full of interesting ideas and promising new UI concepts.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/55VkphdNaE4/
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