When the iPad came out – it changed the game,

A few days after Steve Jobs announced the release of the iPad, I read that sentence in Apple’s Reference Library: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad, and started to realize the drastic implications the evolution of multi-touch would have on interaction design. Anything we design for the web that requires a hover state has an uncertain future and could be subject to serious usability issues

This is a revolutionary time in UI design.  This is the next big step – the last time a similar step happened when UI jumped from keybord to mouse.

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