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When I was at Apple, HI designers would each print out images representing the key "screens" of their apps, and assemble them into a wall where they could see "all of iOS". My favorite designs were always the ones that *couldn't* be printed—they were fundamentally dynamic. ✨

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Omar Rizwan

@rsnous

· Jul 26, 2019

good interactivity is about being able to wiggle stuff, not about being able to click buttons

1:28 AM · Feb 5, 2022Twitter Web App

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Note to self Less GUIs and more WUIs (woo-ies)-- Wiggle-able User Interfaces

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remember any examples that fit this bill?

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Feb 5

Inertial scrolling, rubberbanding, the keyboard, pinch to zoom, and slide to unlock are the classics. Some other faves: the back-navigation gesture; the iPhone X-era multitasking interactions; the iOS 7 level; parallax.

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Between each two mocks are hundreds of omitted frames full of potential 💫

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Inertial scrolling has convinced my brain that text is affected by gravity. I sometimes catch myself sleeping my iPhone when I stand up, anxious that the page I’m reading might fall off the screen.

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Apple bought FingerWorks in 2005 to get multitouch, and we still haven’t seen 90% of the available gestures. Do HI designers know about that anymore, or is it all lost? ergocanada.com/products/keybo

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Feb 5

They certainly knew about it, at least at Apple HI. We talked with Wayne Westerman regularly about gesture design stuff. It just didn't speak to the problems they were focused on solving.

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iOS Level app is top tier for this

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I love this comment. Yes in every way. It’s the invisible dynamism that drives the imagination and allows you to transcend. 👍👏💥

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The thing that gave me most joy on Mac OS X was that when you put the wrong password in on the login screen, the box shudders in disgust. No curt message telling you you entered the wrong password, no Bob asking you if you need help, just a non-verbal “Nah!”…