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Design Your Own Touch Interface

Apply everything you've learned to design custom touch gestures and interfaces for real-world challenges

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Everything You've Learned

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Everything You've Learned

You now understand:

✓ Conductivity requirements
✓ Capacitive sensing and electric field distortion
✓ Grid-based coordinate detection
✓ Multi-touch capability and limitations
✓ Material constraints and workarounds

Now it's time to apply all of this to design something new.

Real innovation happens when you deeply understand constraints.

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Quiz: 3 Questions

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You're designing touch controls for surgeons wearing gloves. Which constraint matters MOST for your design?

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Complete Gesture System Design

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Complete Gesture System Design

This is your capstone project. Show you understand:

Technical principles (conductivity, sensing, multi-touch)
Design thinking (constraints, trade-offs, user needs)
Innovation mindset (better than existing solutions)

Be specific. Explain your reasoning. Address real constraints.

Present your complete gesture system: What context did you choose? What are your 3-5 core gestures? Why do they work better than current solutions? Address the technical constraints you learned.*

What's the biggest trade-off in your design? What did you sacrifice and why was it worth it?*

How would you teach users your gestures without text instructions? Describe your onboarding flow.*

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