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- The distinctions among 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-finger chords are hard to learn and to remember. Why not use a more userable idea of two finger "continuous zoom" (Jef Raskin), instead of different finger combinations for different kinds of zoom. The two-finger pinch would zoom out application content up to a point, after which the application window and the space around it would begin to zoom out to reveal the open application strip. - The five finger chord is a good shortcut to zoom to entire task strip of applications. - It makes sense to put favorite applications in the right panel, but I would use zoomed out, application strip view to access both open apps strip and all available applications in another strip/view below it: [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [] - open apps strip [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] - all available applications strip Interesting possibilities for rearranging the content of the strips. - The boundaries of individual application windows can easily be expanded/shrunk via vertical bars on both sides of the window -- the affordances are more obvious than gestures. - Sleep and shutdown buttons in the right panel are precariously close to search input. -- Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
