27 inch target originally set by the guidelines. With the iPhone 6+, my tap targets should be over 108 pixels just to get back to the unreasonable. My target just shrank to less than half it’s starting size. At a PPI of 401, my iPhone 6+ could have technically legal targets as small as. The PPI goes up which mean the minimum goes down in terms of actual size. Why is that a problem? Every new generation of iPhone we get has a higher pixel density. The problem is that pixel count has stayed the same. Personally, I don’t think that is nearly big enough for a user interface touch target, but at least we had a minimum we could all agree on, at least in the iOS world. Thats a little over 1/3 the size of an average adult finger(1.8 cm). The original iPhone’s screen density of 163 pixels per inch(PPI) was well understood by most app developers. So whats the problem? Back when the iOS Human Interface Guidelines doc was created, determining a proper touch target size wasn’t very difficult. There are a lot of really tiny buttons in Hearthstone that at face value still actually do follow Apple’s (suggested and not really enforced) rules, but wow are they so annoying to target. It is not a help when I play Hearthstone though. It’s a help when I play a musical instrument or if I get my hand caught in a door because my brain can kind of go on auto pilot and not worry about those things as much. In fact, they get pissed off and yell at my brain when things don’t go their way. You see, while I love Hearthstone, my fingers don’t. One thing that is getting on my nerves, however, is that we are seeing a neglect for the rules. Its really an awesome and fantastic thing. It’s becoming more and more prevalent that full featured desktop games are making their way into our nook of the gaming world. Between the frequent updates and competitive deck building, its a little bit of an obsession for me. I spend a lot of time playing Hearthstone (Free) on my iPhone.
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