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Thankfully, as touch screen devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and upcoming palm or windows touch devices come out, hover states will be forced to fade away as i

by hkuo 16y ago

Thankfully, as touch screen devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and upcoming palm or windows touch devices come out, hover states will be forced to fade away as it becomes cumbersome to design interfaces for both touch and non-touch computers.

jessriedel 16y ago
I still worry that one day apple devices will start tracking where your eyes are looking...
- alttab 16y ago
  There are companies already doing this. With the front facing camera on the iPhone4, you could track eye movements and even have a cost-per-glance model.
  - ben1040 16y ago
    If anyone from GazeHawk is reading this, they totally should be using iPhone 4 owners to generate heatmaps of mobile sites like they do already with desktop users.
- hkuo 16y ago
  That is quite scary. And to dig even deeper would be the ability to predict what a user is just thinking in his or her head. Or reacting or showing customized options based on a user's mood, which could be used for both good and bad purposes. Good if it's a system that's intention is to be purely helpful to a user, such as in that computer in the movie Moon. But bad if it's system meant to manipulate users into doing things they won't necessarily want, such as convincing people that they "need" to have a McDonald's Big Mac.
mikeryan 16y ago
I don't know an answer but I actually miss hover states on my iPad. This site in particular I tend to end up hitting the wrong link (usually when trying to go to comments) because I have no visual cue prior to hitting the link of what I'm hitting.
- hkuo 16y ago
  I think designers will just have to compensate going forward with the understanding that touch controls should have a bigger hit area than pixel-precision mouse controls. We're likely far from figuring how and how long this will play out, but I often make the same mistake as you, hitting the wrong link because they are too small or too close together.

by hkuo 16y ago

jessriedel 16y ago

I still worry that one day apple devices will start tracking where your eyes are looking...

alttab 16y ago
There are companies already doing this. With the front facing camera on the iPhone4, you could track eye movements and even have a cost-per-glance model.
- ben1040 16y ago
  If anyone from GazeHawk is reading this, they totally should be using iPhone 4 owners to generate heatmaps of mobile sites like they do already with desktop users.
hkuo 16y ago
That is quite scary. And to dig even deeper would be the ability to predict what a user is just thinking in his or her head. Or reacting or showing customized options based on a user's mood, which could be used for both good and bad purposes. Good if it's a system that's intention is to be purely helpful to a user, such as in that computer in the movie Moon. But bad if it's system meant to manipulate users into doing things they won't necessarily want, such as convincing people that they "need" to have a McDonald's Big Mac.

mikeryan 16y ago

I don't know an answer but I actually miss hover states on my iPad. This site in particular I tend to end up hitting the wrong link (usually when trying to go to comments) because I have no visual cue prior to hitting the link of what I'm hitting.

hkuo 16y ago
I think designers will just have to compensate going forward with the understanding that touch controls should have a bigger hit area than pixel-precision mouse controls. We're likely far from figuring how and how long this will play out, but I often make the same mistake as you, hitting the wrong link because they are too small or too close together.