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Innovative doesn't mean intuitive - why is pinch zoom? Wouldn't it be more intuitive for pinch to close an app - after all you pinch things closed ?
by excuse-me 14y ago
Innovative doesn't mean intuitive - why is pinch zoom?
Wouldn't it be more intuitive for pinch to close an app - after all you pinch things closed ?
- billpatrianakos 14y agoPinch isn't zoom. Unpinch in zoom. It would be intuitive for pinch to close an app, but not more intuitive, because in some apps your intent to zoom out could be confused with wanting to close the app (mobile Safari) and for other apps accidental finger brushes might cause an accidental closing of an app. The way touch gestures work now actually make a lot of sense. It seems like you're reaching.
- cdcarter 14y agoFour finger pinch does close apps, though. And pinch as zoom makes sense if you ever played with newsprint transfered to silly putty!
- aggie 14y agoWhat flat surface do you close by pinching it? Moreover, it seems you're trying to equate "intuitive gesture" with gestures people use with (non-computer) everyday objects, but I don't see why that is a requirement for intuitiveness. Pinching to zoom in and out makes a lot of sense in my mind. Place your thumb and index finger at two points on a map/image/website. Those two points are two corners of a visual area. To make that visual area larger, expand the points outward. To make the area smaller, pinch inward. This conceptual mapping is very straightforward.