Overview

AMX touch panels bridge a relationship between humans and technology, one that unfolds intuitively through the natural input of touch. This relationship is given space and form through the attention to design. Usability of an interface design is essential to the success of your touch panels. Investment in the design of your interfaces directly affects your customer’s ability to understand and use the touch panels. The wide use of features such as icons, gestural touch and nested navigation calls for an increased consistency between computers, mobile phones, kiosks and other platforms. This means it is vital to consider what types of computer technology your customers use on an everyday basis and incorporate current standards into your interfaces. To design compelling touch panel experiences, you must think differently about the user interface (UI) than you do when creating traditional

graphical user interface (GUI) products or Web experiences. The goal of this document is to help the developer and designer create interfaces and user experiences that best utilize touch screen interaction principles through quality, touch-oriented design. The core principles for optimal user-interaction paradigms in multi-touch applications are also discussed. Subsequent chapters provide the principles for visual and textual design along with practical guidelines for implementing them. The design guidelines presented here are not exact specifications for specific AMX touch panels. Instead, the guidelines include approaches to design great experiences so you can create user interfaces that provide the most natural user experience.