Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces
by zozbot234 on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @12:02PM
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Touch-screen interfaces today are anything but "perfectly designed". The most effective and easiest to control UX action on a touch-screen is a swipe, so if complex interactions are a priority you should pick something like pie-menus throughout. The basic idea is that what takes multiple clicks on a mouse should ideally take only a single swipe motion (with confirmation for destructive actions) on a touchscreen.
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Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces
by MyPasswordSucks on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @12:50PM
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> Touch-screen interfaces today are anything but "perfectly designed".
I don't disagree.
However, a mouse will always be more versatile than a touchscreen. There's a finite theoretical ceiling for touchscreens that's well underneath that of mice. Even looking beyond the completely-obvious fact that there's no real way to distinguish between "point" and "drag" on a touchscreen (other than "did this start on a draggable element", which is far from ideal), two fingers and a thumb can readily control five separate buttons plus a scrollwheel, and I can add even more buttons to a mouse.
I can't add more fingers for touchscreens.