Gesture

Any method of interaction a user has with information on their device using touch

Why it matters

Gestures buy screen space at the price of discoverability: a swipe has no button to find. The safe pattern is redundancy — every gesture needs a visible route to the same outcome, or a feature exists only for people who already know it exists.

The numbers

Tap, swipe, drag, pinch, long-press — the vocabulary users actually know

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