Design--design for Touch

Since the entry, has been doing mobile end of the interactive design, more than half a year to feel the deepest touch screen equipment brought about by the large-scale mobile internet change. The touch-screen phones and tablets that are ubiquitous around us prove that the tide of the mobile internet is creeping in. Subways, buses, shopping malls, streets, a mobile device is changing our lives.

As a designer, naturally, without the close attention to the industry, recently browsed the blog of foreign counterparts, saw a personal summary of the design of touch-control equipment, in this small translation, and share with you.

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The following is part of the translation:

Design for Touch

by Luke Wroblewski

Original address: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1699

In the 2013 an event apart event in Seattle, Josh Clark published a speech called "Design for Touch", sharing the idea of whether the design for touch is ergonomic, in the context of the current growing range of equipment. Here is a part of my notes:

1. Looking back at the history of Web design, we have realized that in some ways what we are doing is wrong: table layouts, web standards, and so on. Touch-control operations are also signalling similar shifts.

2. No one is really entering content into the web. We have to fight with fingers, mouse, keyboard and other "equipment".

3. Touch-control operations are not limited to smartphones and tablets, and each desktop theme is now designed to support touch-screen movement.

4. Web design has always been considered a visual medium, but now it's not just about how each pixel of your design looks on the screen, but how it looks to people. We are no longer just visual designers, but also industrial designers: this is understood as an interactive designer.

5. On the touch screen, there is a real ergonomic design. Touch is a physical interaction: how does something feel in your hand? Does the design work when used in your hand?