A nice gesture can go a long way.

Today we see several apps starting to push the boundaries of gestures. To the point that the gestures are making people think about them and testing the limits of human habits. We all know that Humans are creatures of habit they love doing things in their routine. Adding these gestures to apps people love are pushing theses habits and starting to make people change them, and others are just frustrating. I'll take a look at a few apps that are pushing these normal routines with gestures. I'll also talk about what makes a good gesture recognizable/relatable to people.

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1. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture #ANiceGesture A nice Gesture can go a long way. 1
2. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Human habits. 2
3. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture 1. Keep them relevant and relatable 3 2. Show some instant acknowledgement 3. Take finger lag into consideration
4. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Modern touch devices allow one to interact with virtual objects. However, there is a substantial delay between when a finger moves and the display responds. 4 Source: http://youtu.be/vOvQCPLkPt4?hd=1
5. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Hands 5 Body Context
6. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture How is it used today? 6
7. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Paper 7 Source: http://www.fiftythree.com/paper
8. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Bittimer 8 Source: http://www.fiftythree.com/paper
9. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Rechner 9 The worlds first gesture based calculator.
10. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Clear 10
11. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Jimi Hendrix Experience 11
12. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture Gesture Based Content Sharing 12
13. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture http://www.merhl.com/?p=722 13 More at
14. Contextual Design | Joe Johnston | @merhl | #ANiceGesture thank you !" ا$%& Շնորհակալ եմ Sağ olun Благодаря ँँ䓟 Σας ευχαριστούμε ͋Γ͕ͱ͏ Gratias Obrigado Спасибо Gracias ขอขอบคุณคุณ 14