How to Build Responsive Touch Interfaces by Terry Crowley
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This is a summary of Rethinking MVC in Excel, Word and PowerPoint after 25 Years by Terry Crowley, who led Office for a decade. Touch interface require extremely high responsiveness. For example, if you have Word document: And you’re trying to drag the lizard around, it needs to feel as if it’s sticking to your finger. This means that the app has only 16ms to receive your touch events, figure out whether you’re trying to drag the lizard or the text, move the lizard, and repaint the screen. If it can’t do that consistently, the illusion will break, and the app will be perceived as an unresponsive, lower-quality app.
How to Build Responsive Touch Interfaces by Terry Crowley
How to Build Responsive Touch Interfaces by…
How to Build Responsive Touch Interfaces by Terry Crowley
This is a summary of Rethinking MVC in Excel, Word and PowerPoint after 25 Years by Terry Crowley, who led Office for a decade. Touch interface require extremely high responsiveness. For example, if you have Word document: And you’re trying to drag the lizard around, it needs to feel as if it’s sticking to your finger. This means that the app has only 16ms to receive your touch events, figure out whether you’re trying to drag the lizard or the text, move the lizard, and repaint the screen. If it can’t do that consistently, the illusion will break, and the app will be perceived as an unresponsive, lower-quality app.