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Trude Gatters
Inspiring
March 14, 2019
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Usability testing - swipe gestures

  • March 14, 2019
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I'm designing an embedded (not mobile) application that involves swiping L/R to change the view, and also a swipe gesture that will bring up some onscreen controls.

I'm at the stage where I need to do some very basic usability testing to see how discoverable these gestures will be.  So far I can't find any way to test these basic things in XD, but I thought I'd ask before giving up on this...

This is what I want to test:

  1. In the absence of on-screen prompts, will users naturally try swiping L/R to change the view?
  2. When trying to find other functionality (eg settings) will users discover a toolbar that appears by swiping down from the top of the screen?

To test these properly I need to implement drag L/R to change from one artboard to another (with no common objects between the two, so Auto animate isn't useful here).  I also need to define a screen area where drag down will add the toolbar as overlay to the current screen (right now I can only do this with a tap gesture).

If anyone knows of a way to do this in XD then it'd be great to know!  Otherwise, does anyone know of another tool that could get the job done?

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Correct answer Kenneth Kawamoto

If you create a page 1 artboard with both page 1 and page 2 side by side (double width), then duplicate it to create page 2 and move page 1 + 2 to show page 2 in viewport, you can create a drag action with auto-animate. Not very elegant, I have to say...

This is more relevant perhaps:

Carousel / Side-scroll – Adobe XD Feedback : Feature Requests & Bugs

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Kenneth KawamotoCommunity Expert
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March 14, 2019

You can swipe to one direction but not multiple directions unfortunately.

Specify drag direction – Adobe XD Feedback : Feature Requests & Bugs

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Trude GattersAuthor
Inspiring
March 14, 2019

How - I can't swipe in any direction to do what I want!  Whenever I select the Drag trigger, it forces it to "Auto animate".  Since my two artboards do not share any common objects, nothing happens when I perform the drag gesture in the prototype.

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Trude GattersAuthor
Inspiring
March 14, 2019

If you create a page 1 artboard with both page 1 and page 2 side by side (double width), then duplicate it to create page 2 and move page 1 + 2 to show page 2 in viewport, you can create a drag action with auto-animate. Not very elegant, I have to say...

This is more relevant perhaps:

Carousel / Side-scroll – Adobe XD Feedback : Feature Requests & Bugs


Thanks - yeah, I did try that.  It kinda works, but you can't swipe back in the opposite direction to get back to page 1.  You have to keep swiping in the same direction, which is really weird and confusing as the content moves in the opposite direction to your finger.

I'm wondering if After Effects might be of some use here?

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