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Microsoft has demonstrated with Windows for touchscreen PCs that it's not just a problem with small screens, but small touch targets in mouse oriented user inte
by Zigurd 1y ago
Microsoft has demonstrated with Windows for touchscreen PCs that it's not just a problem with small screens, but small touch targets in mouse oriented user interfaces.
The other side of the coin is with everybody trying to cram AI features into an existing touch UI, touch targets are shrinking and buttons and hard to differentiate gestures are getting overloaded. It used to be that I could tell people that touch UI was great because a toddler could readily master it. Try telling a toddler about edge gestures. Those days are gone now.
- wongarsu 1y agoWindows 8 set out to change that by redesigning the UI to make most touch targets much bigger, and add lots of padding around them. And many highly visible parts of Windows (and other MS apps) still live with these design compromises. It can be done. Many would even call this "modern" and "clean" design.
- thewebguyd 1y ago> touch targets are shrinking and buttons and hard to differentiate iOS 26 went overboard in this direction, especially on iPad. They took what used to be a great touch screen experience and made it only usable with mouse and keyboard. The traffic light buttons are horrible touch targets, as is the menu on top of the screen. Even on iPhone the long press menus have been crammed so full and their font size reduced that they are much worse touch targets. This OS that used to work great on a 3.5" screen is now difficult to use on a big 6.5" screen. We've gone totally backwards.