Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Gestures
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 3 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Gestures are hard to discover or memoriseUnreviewed
20122026- User can never remember any gestures, so they're hard to use2024-12-08
- Gestures are inscrutable and hard to discover or memorise2016-01-20
- Gestures become arbitrary and everywhere, harder to discover and remember than buttons2012-06-24
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.