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Re: [Design] Page stack back gesture

 

I haven't considered the full screen situation. Sorry about that. Still thinking...

Till later,
Scott.
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On 12/06/13 21:33, Scott May wrote:
Yeah I'm a "me too" on the concern that the "back" button is too hidden given it's frequent use. Perhaps we won't need "back" so much in this new environment?

In any case, with gestures we need to be very mindful of how apps are going to operate. We don't want to offer a gesture that might look anything like something you might do in reasonable use of some app that doesn't exist on this platform yet. Think about about what you do on the screen when say, using a map, drawing a picture, moving a piece in a game etc, etc. I think gestures coming in from the edge are fairly safe, but the main screen area is for the app...

Having said that, I'd like a back button|gesture|mind control interface somewhere. The title bar can get crowded, and needs that clean style, but so far that seems like fair game.

Now that I think about it, the Android apps "OMG Ubuntu!" and "Feedly" both use a nice tight little "<" like symbol in the top left title bar to navigate back. It's small but visually clean, consistent and works. Yeah, that's my preference.

Till later,
Scott.
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On 12/06/13 21:15, Josh Leverette wrote:

let's stick with pinch zooming our way back out if we absolutely must. I'd recommend just redesigning the title bar element to have a back button.

Sincerely,
Josh

On Jun 12, 2013 6:12 AM, "Josh Leverette" <coder543@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:coder543@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    I would like there to be such a gesture, I'm just not convinced
    there's an appropriate one since the left edge of the screen is
    occupied. My suggestion is we consider that swiping from left to
    right anywhere not on the screen edge could act as a back gesture
    in most applications.

    I caution strongly against all of these actions though. there are
    too many gestures coming about. if we give up one of the left
    edge gestures, we could comfortably do this, but there is no
    other reasonable way I can think of.

    Sincerely,
    Josh

    On Jun 12, 2013 5:25 AM, "Simon" <oct4v14n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:oct4v14n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

        We could also think about using shaking for going back.
        This would be doable with just one hand,
        and wouldn't conflict with other (and future) gestures which are
        touch-based.

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