2014 - Anatomy of a touch interaction: Swipe-to-peep

2014 Sep 7

Anatomy of a touch interaction: Swipe-to-peep You open up your messaging app. Question: Why can’t you just “peep” into the thread by swiping on a conversation cell like this? Today’s state of interaction design seems a bit swipe-obsessive, right? But really, why do people love to cuddle their phone? Does swiping really make touch interactions seem more effortless? Mailbox, the iOS app I’m using stopped working for a few days for me, so I went back to the Gmail app, and I was like, how can people use this? ...