Further Reading

Dan Saffer’s Designing Gestural Interfaces [Saf08] covers some of the things mentioned in this chapter and many additional topics. Josh Clark talks about gestures (among many other things) in his excellent book Tapworthy [Cla10]. Fred Beecher lists a number of useful guidelines for designing natural user interfaces.[74]

Footnotes

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For more, read Ben Shneiderman’s paper “Direct Manipulation for Comprehensible, Predictable and Controllable User Interfaces.”

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Though this interaction is not always easily discoverable, it can be made so by making sure that the last visible element of a list is only partially visible, showing the user that there is more content further down.

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Read his essay on NUIs at http://jnd.org/dn.mss/natural_user_interfaces_are_not_natural.html ...

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