Following on from my earlier post, Justin Williams makes some great points about gesture hijacking:
The biggest thing I took away from just the PDF (this should be a session at WWDC) is the gesture hijacking that I’m seeing more and more applications do. Tweetie is a prime example and while I love the quick access, I do often find myself accidently misfiring the gesture just when I’m scrolling a list of tweets.
In the area I am about to release an iPhone application, I’ve noticed many of the other applications on the market are using similar gesture-based shortcuts, which I’m inclined to resist in my application because I don’t think a saved tap is worth the extra learning curve for a novice user.
For yet-to-be-disclosed reasons of my own, the discussion of gesture hijacking is particularly pertinent. I’ll admit I love the swiping in Tweetie, but in my own project I’m still not happy with the idea of a swipe to quickly reveal a function that isn’t delete - though it’s perhaps just the need for the right graphics to show the ‘shortcuts’.
Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009
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