You'll Be Sorry That You Gleefully Messed Up Those Gestures

*Donald Norman may be a curmudgeon, but he's the thinking man's curmudgeon.

http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/gestural_interfaces_a_step_backwards_in_usability_1.html

"…some critics claimed that it is reasonable to experiment with radically new interaction techniques when given a new platform. We agree. But the place for such experimentation is in the lab.

"After all, most new ideas fail, and the more radically they depart from previous best practices, the more likely they are to fail. Sometimes, a...