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Introducing Slide-to-Select

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Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select

#11

Post by userbinator »

afandian wrote: post #4

EDIT 2: Author removed the image. I clicked on the link. It shows me a full-screen image with some text telling me to click and drag and tap and slide. So I clicked on the text and dragged and ... it's text. I pressed space (probably subconsciously) and found out that it scrolls and it's an article about user interaction. But the only thing I saw at first is a picture and a title. It seems like they went out of their…

"scroll down to read some text" on there, so you know you can scroll.

I saw the picture and text at first, but also the scrollbar that indicated there was more content, so I knew I should scroll down.

Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select

#12

Post by afandian »

userbinator wrote: post #11
afandian wrote: post #4

EDIT 2: Author removed the image. I clicked on the link. It shows me a full-screen image with some text telling me to click and drag and tap and slide. So I clicked on the text and dragged and ... it's text. I pressed space (probably subconsciously) and found out that it scrolls and it's an article about user interaction. But the only thing I saw at first is a picture and a title. It seems like they went out of their…

"scroll down to read some text" on there, so you know you can scroll. I saw the picture and text at first, but also the scrollbar that indicated there was more content, so I knew I should scroll down.

The problem is, Mac OS (I don't know about others) don't have a static scrollbar anymore. There's no way of knowing. The people that make medium.com surely must know that in Mac OS there will be no indication that there's any content to read, and that if they fill the screen with a large image without showing any content, they should at least say "there's some content below".

(Granted you can enable it in the System Preferences, but that's not standard)

Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select

#13

Post by aidos »

paulmalenke wrote: post #10
Goonbaggins wrote: post #2

Looks great for a static screen. How does it handle scrolling?

Tested it out. Using spreadsheet terms, it seems that when you want to select A1 to A2 it will scroll unless you have already started a horizontal select. The whole workflow is actually really nice and smooth. I personally like it. I would recommend others to try it out.

Cool! That's actually a great solution.

As with all of these things it's not obviously discoverable but once you know how the interaction works it's really useful. Seems like one of these features that you'll forever find yourself wishing for in every other app where you had to select a load of things.

Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select

#15

Post by kampopat »

userbinator wrote: post #8

This sounds like it would have to be a separate mode, since otherwise it would be very easily confused with scrolling which the slide gesture is already used for - and this could make selections more difficult if they're not contiguous and located far apart; compare 1. Scroll to the first item; tap to select it; scroll to the second item; tap to select it; perform the desired action with the selection. 2. Scroll to t…

OP here. It's actually a single mode. Since the view doesn't have a horizontal scroll, the selection is activated as soon as you slide your finger horizontally and will continue (horizontal or vertical) until you lift your finger. Of course this means that only the visible cells on screen can be selected in one go before you'd have to release (it will keep the selection) and then scroll down before selecting another group. Hope that clears it up!

Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select

#16

Post by aidos »

userbinator wrote: post #8

This sounds like it would have to be a separate mode, since otherwise it would be very easily confused with scrolling which the slide gesture is already used for - and this could make selections more difficult if they're not contiguous and located far apart; compare 1. Scroll to the first item; tap to select it; scroll to the second item; tap to select it; perform the desired action with the selection. 2. Scroll to t…

@paulmalenke pointed out (currently below) that scrolling still works because this only triggers if you start selecting in a horizontal direction.

Given that, I don't think it needs another mode at all. Alos, the tap to select behaviour should still work as it always has. You don't really lose anything.

Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select

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Post by kampopat »

afandian wrote: post #4

EDIT 2: Author removed the image. I clicked on the link. It shows me a full-screen image with some text telling me to click and drag and tap and slide. So I clicked on the text and dragged and ... it's text. I pressed space (probably subconsciously) and found out that it scrolls and it's an article about user interaction. But the only thing I saw at first is a picture and a title. It seems like they went out of their…

Maybe the title is a little confusing. I didn't mean for it to be giving instructions, just a comparison of the interactions on desktop (click and drag) and mobile (tap and slide).

Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select

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Post by afandian »

kampopat wrote: post #17
afandian wrote: post #4

EDIT 2: Author removed the image. I clicked on the link. It shows me a full-screen image with some text telling me to click and drag and tap and slide. So I clicked on the text and dragged and ... it's text. I pressed space (probably subconsciously) and found out that it scrolls and it's an article about user interaction. But the only thing I saw at first is a picture and a title. It seems like they went out of their…

Maybe the title is a little confusing. I didn't mean for it to be giving instructions, just a comparison of the interactions on desktop (click and drag) and mobile (tap and slide).

The title's a little bit weird, but it does make sense coupled with an article. The point is, the article isn't visible until you scroll, and there's nothing to say that there's an article.
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