Questions tagged [gestures]
a form of non-verbal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate particular messages, either in place of speech or together and in parallel with spoken words.
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How to clearly separate rotate and edit gesture for 3D model in touch screen
For example, assuming you're using a lasso to select an area of a 3d model, you probably want to swipe your index finger to draw a shape(notice that selection can start from outside the model). Also ...
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How to communicate that something can be long-pressed (mobile)?
Imagine I want to build something like Instagram profile pages, which show a gallery of pictures, and upon long-pressing, will zoom-in, focus on the picture, and display some secondary information (...
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Do horizontally scrolling tabs on mobile have issues with long labels
Designing tab navigation for a mobile app feature, and some of the labels are going to be quite lengthy. I'm curious if this would cause usability issues for users who might not know that you can ...
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iPhone: what combination of gestures should I use to manipulate a 3D model?
I am working on an AR map where I load a model onto the screen, and I'd like to allow the user to do the following: Scale size Move up/own/sideways, so basically X/Y axes. Move forward/backward, z ...
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Stuck on handling common scroll gestures
I have a screen where users can switch between tabs via swiping back and forth. In each tab, it has a list of items. Recently I implemented a gesture handler for that list (so list can have more ...
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Is there a standard gesture for resetting scale on a pinch-zoom canvas?
I've got an android app with a view of a diagram that can be dragged, rotated and scaled using pinch zoom and other similar gestures. Often times I find that I want to reset back to a canonical view ...
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When is Swiping Intuitive? [duplicate]
What sort of operations make sense with swipe gestures? For dating apps, swiping left and right make sense because the context of the operation is sorting. Some go left, others go right. Goats and ...
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Back gesture inside the screen which has a swipeable tab
I'm thinking about a UX scenario. For example, you have a screen in your app with a swipeable tab component. On iOS, you have back gesture too. So users can not swipe to back screen (because of that ...
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How to show the user has "grabbed" an element?
I'm working on a mobile drag and drop feature, where users can rearrange the order of list items by dragging and dropping them in a new place in the list. So far the flow is as follows: the user ...
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How long should a swipe action be to open a sidebar?
How long/quick should a left or right movement be in order to indicate it's a swipe rather than user scrolling the page? I was thinking, if user isn't scrolling in the y axis and performed touch ...
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Demonstrate an interaction with a design component [duplicate]
We have a mobile music application that has a header with a floating button underneath it, something along the lines of this crude image: People understand to click the button to play a song, but it ...
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Is the Mac’s “Wrong Password” gesture universally understood? [closed]
When an incorrect password is entered into an Apple Mac’s login prompt, the dialog gently shakes as if the operating system is shaking its head at you. This is a delightfully intuitive way to ...
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What's Apple's term for horizontal "swipeable bar"?
I'm looking for the term of the UI element Apple is using pretty often lately. On iPads you can see them on the top of windows to symbolize that the user can drag this. On the iPhone X it replaced the ...
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Communicate long-press functionality in a web UI
So, barring Google Drive and some other applications, it seems to be mostly seen as a no-no to override the browser's default right-click context menu. The pattern that seems to have emerged in lieu ...
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Describing 3D swiping hand movement as curve on a XY plane
I'm trying to describe a 3D swipe gesture (only vertical or horizontal, no diagonals) above a given flat surface using as much conventional geometry or similar non-machine-learning techniques (Hidden ...
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