Application UI Design Recommendations

Jeremiah Flerchinger jeremiah.flerchinger at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 21:03:43 CEST 2007


pauric wrote:
> Thank you for that clarification John, I followed your convention in
> the wiki edit but applied the desktop convention of max = triple tap.
>
>> From the wiki Application Tap behavior section
> Double tap & triple tap: Two or three short single taps in < 1 second.
> Equivalent to a double click on a desktop OS's. Note, this is to be
> used in rare circumstances, it is not required to launch applications
> or open files as in desktop OS's, a single tap has been assigned to
> this. Single tap places a cursor, double tap selects a word, triple
> tap can select a sentence & single tap again clears the selection and
> places the cursor again.
What if I just want to select a few words or a sequence of text that 
spans several lines & sentences?  I would like to suggest a double-tap & 
drag (tap, tap-hold, & drag) to select an arbitrary amount of text.
>
> Note, I've roughly framed tapping & holding differentiation at the 1
> second mark.  That is, mousedown-mouseup in < 1 second = tap.  And >=
> 1 second is a tap-hold.
I agree 1 second is around the perfect duration.
>
> If I find standards (possible Apple) contrary to that I'll correct the 
> wiki
>
> Now, one other conflict is scrolling & selecting.  Its not going to be
> possible to both have intuitive scrolling (ala iphone flick) and allow
> users to drag & drop icons.
>
> How do people suggest we resolve the interaction conflict?
>
> cheers - pauric
Scrolling vs Drag & Drop could be context based.  If you press on an 
icon and drag it drags & drops, but if your initial press is not 
directly over an icon it scrolls.
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