Experts Say Gestural Interfaces Are a Step Backwards In Usability 254
smitty777 writes "Veteran usability experts Donald A. Norman and Jakob Nielsen wrote an interesting article lamenting the current state of the art in gesture interfaces. According to them, the lack of standards for interacting with these devices puts us on par with the '94 vintage in web design, when designers discovered they could make the buttons and UI look like anything they wanted."
Re:This is giving me ideas... (Score:4, Informative)
You forgot the roadblock with the "Under Construction" sign.
Re:YES!!! This is why the android bugs me so much! (Score:4, Informative)
People who suggest Task Killer don't know how Android works. [geekfor.me]
Android applications do not run in the background unless they go out of their way to do so. When they *do* go out of their way to do so, they can be killed at any time by the operating system. This design makes tools such as "Advanced Task Killer" not only unnecessary, but counterproductive; read the link above for a detailed description of why auto-killing background tasks actually makes Android *slower*.
Re:YES!!! This is why the android bugs me so much! (Score:2, Informative)
It's a hangover habit from the desktop world where you need to close applications when your finished with them. You don't need to even think of it on Android and how it works is rather a refreshing piece of OS design (to the point Apple somewhat copied it for iOS).
There is a lot of misunderstand about how Android multitasks, which is really rather innovative that we could have used in operating systems a long time ago. Read up here: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html [blogspot.com]
Task killer apps are not necessary and actually work to destablise and lag your phone if you over use them (as I found out the hard way). Learn to let go of the need to control everything and your phone will work faster and crash less often, and you'll have some time and brainpower spared.