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One of the designers where I work added 3D Touch to a prototype of a website he was working on this week. During a Demo session no one knew the feature was there until he told them. That's the hard bit about UI design once you go beyond visual things - people are conservative in the ways they interact with devices, so unless there's an indicator, or instructions, no one will find the fancy new UI feature. And if no o…
Its pretty silly people keep using the marketing terms as if they actually worked for Apple. It has a very high resolution display and pressure-sensitive screen.
Marketing terms are used constantly for referring to specific flavours of technology. For example, Google Now, Cortana and Siri. Language and people are flexible enough to cope with multiple terms for a technology. Also, it's faster to type than "microphone which samples and uploads to an external voice processing server which returns system commands".
One of the designers where I work added 3D Touch to a prototype of a website he was working on this week. During a Demo session no one knew the feature was there until he told them. That's the hard bit about UI design once you go beyond visual things - people are conservative in the ways they interact with devices, so unless there's an indicator, or instructions, no one will find the fancy new UI feature. And if no o…
I've found the popup previews surprisingly useful across applications after expecting it to purely be a gimmick. It's especially useful on HN and other text heavy sites with links. I'm interested to see if web designers start designing for such previews - at the moment a lot sites previews are their banner adverts or other non-content related fluff. It'd be quite useful if you could make Safari popup previews in its reader mode to remove non-content items.
Sure, I can preview a link in Safari or Mail, but what about when someone posts a link on Facebook or Messenger, I can't deep press on it to preview that link. So right now, everything is pretty fragmented. Do I want to try to deep press on something to see if it supports it? If not, I have to lift the finger and just tap it again.
Until everything supports it, I just won't find it natural. Right now it's pretty much hit or miss.
One of the designers where I work added 3D Touch to a prototype of a website he was working on this week. During a Demo session no one knew the feature was there until he told them. That's the hard bit about UI design once you go beyond visual things - people are conservative in the ways they interact with devices, so unless there's an indicator, or instructions, no one will find the fancy new UI feature. And if no o…
I always saw it as an interface like right clicking, which is genuinely useful.
It seems like carefully controlling the strength of your touch - or for that matter, pressing hard at all - could be outside of the capabilities of some disabled users. I've got slightly poor control over my hands and that already makes it rather difficult to use some mobile apps and games.
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I always saw it as an interface like right clicking, which is genuinely useful.
Long press is a better alternative for that, and that's available on iOS (UILongPressGestureRecognizer) and Android (android.view.ContextMenu). The fact it's rarely used despite having been an available option for years might indicate it's not actually very useful.
One of the designers where I work added 3D Touch to a prototype of a website he was working on this week. During a Demo session no one knew the feature was there until he told them. That's the hard bit about UI design once you go beyond visual things - people are conservative in the ways they interact with devices, so unless there's an indicator, or instructions, no one will find the fancy new UI feature. And if no o…
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Anyone know why that is? I thought it was the same tech.
I went by an apple store today and I thought the force-touch on a Macbook felt much, much more realistic than 3D touch. Anyone know why that is? I thought it was the same tech.
You can change the sensitivity settings but they will always be different.