Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards In Usability

"... several important fundamental principles of interaction design that are completely independent of technology:



· Visibility (also called perceived affordances or signifiers)

· Feedback

· Consistency (also known as standards)

· Non-destructive operations (hence the importance of undo)

· Discoverability: All operations can be discovered by systematic exploration of menus

· Scalability. The operation should work on all screen sizes, small and large.

· Reliability. Operations should work. Period. And events should not happen randomly.

All these are rapidly disappearing from the toolkit of designers, aided, we must emphasize, by the weird design guidelines issued by Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

What are we talking about?"

Let them explain: HERE!