Gestures

Again, a thorough article by Lukas Mathis, this time on complex gestures in touch interfaces.

He points out that once a gesture becomes so complex that it doesn’t resemble any real world action associated with the task anymore, it’s not much better then a CLI.

In the next months and years, defining how complex touch interactions are done will be a major war zone for the Human-Computer-Interface field.

Maybe that’s something Apple sees too and tries to define from the very beginning. Since this is very much about UX, I’m glad Apple is leading the charge here. Still, it will be interesting to see how this unfolds, as we are once again on unknown terrain, not paving cow paths anymore.