Thanks Jeff for this analysis. This is instructing. Cheers, Alexandre
> On 11 Mar 2014, at 08:54, "J.F. Rick" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sergi, > > Based on my experience developing touch interfaces since 2007, I believe in > touch. I believe it will be the future of interfaces and I believe it can be > better than mouse-keyboard interfaces. That said, it is not there yet. Now is > the time to innovate and get it there so that touch interfaces won't be poor > replicas of their desktop forebears. Currently, text entry is a real problem > for touch exclusive devices, but there is progress being made on that front. > We don't have the answer yet but I think it will be a significantly different > landscape in five years. In regards to touch vs physical pointers, this is > not as large of a problem as people make it out to be. It is just that our > widgets tend to be created for mouse-based interfaces and therefore don't > transition well to touch. Interfaces designed with touch in mind can be just > as smooth (if not smoother) as mouse-based interfaces. You just have to take > advantage of what touch does well (faster, more precise routes; multi-touch > gestures; bimanual interaction) and stay clear of things it does poorly > (precise touch down, covering the target with the finger). > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Sergi Reyner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> 2014-03-11 10:37 GMT+00:00 J.F. Rick <[email protected]>: >> >>> As we move from mouse-keyboard devices to touch-based ones >> >> I certainly hope that "we" refers to a small group of people, unless we get >> onscreen keyboards as good as physical ones, feedback included. The same >> goes for touch versus physical pointer :) >> >> Cheers, >> Sergi > > > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. > http://www.je77.com/ > Skype ID: jochenrick
