Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 12 · Responsive and mobile
Touch, and what changes
Lesson 122 of 176 · 3 min
TARGETS, GESTURES AND THE HOVER STATE THAT DOES NOT EXIST. Small things that MAKE AN APPLICATION FEEL WRONG. None of these breaks anything. Together they are the difference between an application that works on a phone and one that is unpleasant on a phone, and users describe the second as broken. TARGETS ARE THE MEASURABLE ONE. A pointer is a pixel and a fingertip is not, so a control sized for a mouse is a control people miss — and the failure is worse than nothing happening, because missing frequently means hitting the thing beside it. Give anything tappable real size and real space around it, especially in a table row where several actions sit together. HOVER IS THE ONE THAT SILENTLY REMOVES INFORMATION. There is no hover on a touch screen, so anything revealed by hovering is not revealed at all — a tooltip explaining a column, an action…
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