Big Transparent Thumbs
January 26th, 2010
Vincent, a friend of mine, has been tinkering with some new ways of portraying simple touch screen interactions on his Get Around application. He uses a big overlaid thumb with a set transparency to indicate the touch. For indicating a dragging action, the thumb also contains an arrow with a direction. Just thought to share this as I found it interesting. To refresh quickly, Elaine has also approached the same problem previously in a slightly different way.
Credits: Vincent Steurs
7 Responses to “Big Transparent Thumbs”
January 26th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Cool…do you know of a way to make these thumbs available for general consumption? haha
January 26th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I don't think the thumb contains an arrow, I think the arrow is a button in the application being moved by the thumb. The flesh-colored arrow next to the thumb indicates movement. At least, that's how I would interpret this.
January 26th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
@ Evan: you're right about the flesh colored arrow indicating the movement.
@ PSD Cutups: here you got a link to download a .png of the thumb, enjoy! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1899109/transparent_finge…
January 26th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I wish this could be integrated in Axure …
January 29th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Nice idea about, it could be part of some wireframing tools.