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Things to think with

This is the place to collect inspirational material for ongoing and future UX issues in the Renaissance Project. Please feel free to add screenshots of any application or device that fit one of the topics below and are delightful to use. However, this is not the place where decisions should be made but fruitful discussions of envisioning software and product designs should happen.

Please ensure that your images appear at a resolution of 1024x768px.

Object Handles

Object handles are those tiny grippies that you usually use to manipulate all kinds of objects within your documents. The handles are frequently located at the corners and the edges of the bounding box around some document entity such as shapes, images, tables, charts, text boxes etc.

OpenOffice.org Impress

The image illustrates the visual design of 1. Crop Image, 2.Rotate Shape, and 3. Resize or Move Shape in Impress.

Inkscape

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Demo Version

AutoCAD 2008

Default handle (called a grip) is stretching the object. Pressing Enter to cycle through Stretch, Move, Rotate.

MS Word 2007

Corel DRAW 12

Notice, that the handles do not hide the object corners. So exact position with mouse is possible. In OOo the handles and the mouse pointer hide the object, especially when drawing an arc and adjusting the angles. In addition the snap area, where the mouse changes its mode, it larger than is OOo.

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