This is a really cool implementation.. Definitely a time-saver.. Like another user mentioned here, i am curious to understand how you handle vertical scrolling..
Introducing Slide-to-Select
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Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select
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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.
Fair point. I've removed the photo so the article is visible without having to scroll down. Hopefully that should clear up some confusion!
Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select
#23This is a really cool implementation.. Definitely a time-saver.. Like another user mentioned here, i am curious to understand how you handle vertical scrolling..
Vertical scrolling isn't affected. A horizontal slide of your finger will activate it and then you can slide over any photo you want to select (horizontal, diagonal and vertical). Once you lift your finger you can scroll down as you normally would. We take into account the angle at which you're scrolling so it is possible to select say 3 photos in the same column by sliding your finger over the top one at an angle and then sliding down. Try it out if you have an iOS device.
Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select
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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.
We're going to introduce a short tutorial that makes users aware of the interaction when they first open the camera so that should make it more discoverable. Another thing that isn't obvious yet is you can deselect all the images by shaking the device! We'll make that obvious in the tutorial too.
Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select
#25This has been around for a while. An app called Loom had this like a year ago. You can look at it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8KTDqCKx8 App is not available anymore, because it got acquired by Dropbox.
I'm pretty sure that they would have patented it too. Guess we'll find out if this gets pulled.
Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Fair point. I've removed the photo so the article is visible without having to scroll down. Hopefully that should clear up some confusion!
Cool. No longer confusing to a newcomer.
Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select
#27This has been around for a while. An app called Loom had this like a year ago. You can look at it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8KTDqCKx8 App is not available anymore, because it got acquired by Dropbox.
I'm pretty sure that they would have patented it too. Guess we'll find out if this gets pulled.
But nobody shows how to scroll in select mode.
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>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.
Re: Introducing Slide-to-Select
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
We're going to introduce a short tutorial that makes users aware of the interaction when they first open the camera so that should make it more discoverable. Another thing that isn't obvious yet is you can deselect all the images by shaking the device! We'll make that obvious in the tutorial too.
It might be good to have a deselect all button. Without knowing that I could shake, I deselected around 25 photos manually.
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