Designing for Touch

What it does

Get the know-how to design for interfaces that let you touch—stretch, crumple, drag, flick—information itself.

Please reach out to this book’s author to inquire about availability. Touch introduces physicality to designs that were once strictly virtual, and puts forth a new test: How does this design feel in the hand? Josh Clark guides you through the touchscreen frontier. Learn about ergonomic demands (and rules of thumb), layout and sizing for all gadgets, an emerging gestural toolkit, and tactics to speed up interactions and keep gestures discoverable. Get the know-how to design for interfaces that let you touch—stretch, crumple, drag, flick—information itself. It’s in your hands. Device guru Josh’s Designing for Touch is the in-depth guide designers have waited for, to…from abookapart.com

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