When dealing with JavaScript (particularly jQuery), many of the plugins and libraries do not work as you would’ve expected. Same goes for many everyday problems too. The last resort of the poor man, that can't afford someone else to do things for him, is to do it himself from scratch. As Jesus once said “Do it yourself and god will help you”. This is not the quickest of options and definitely not the easiest, but sometimes it is the only way to make something work the way you want it to. That was the case of moving multiple object simultaneously with touch. Turns out the solution for this particular problem is actually very easy. This purpose of this chapter is mainly to give some positive motivation by point you…

What else than a Hammer, the most useful tool in the world, would be the best solution for multi touch on the web. The library hammer.js actually takes the name from the notorious rapper Mc Hammer, spoofing on his famous song “You can't touch this”, but I prefer my interpretation.

This is not the first tutorial for this library, but since I’ve been using it, they released a new version with a lot of changes, which makes this the only tutorial that works with it right now. My goal with this article is to help a total newbie learn the basics of hammer.js and can start right away working on something serious with it.

Lets start with some useful links: hammer homepage with examples, hammer git…

With mobile devices flooding the market, web design tries to follow the trends and adapt to the new technologies. Most of the time the wrong way. I am talking about mobile versions of websites that deprive the user of the full content of the page or pointless standalone apps. The right way would be using responsive web design methods just to adapt the size of the page to the media that it’s running on. I’ll talk about this in detail soon in a article about Sussy responsive grids for Compass. This is going to be a 3 part series of articles, on how to take advantage of touch technologies on web sites. I’ll focus on the results of my experience with this technology and what to use and how.…

There is no short answer, or correct one for that matter, but there are some patterns. It's basic marketing 101, that people want what they can't have, what they friend or neighbor has, what society says the want...  Inspired by Andrew Kim road to success, by criticising Microsofts awful design, I've decided to write my view on the stupidity of asking people what they want. Because in reality people don't know what they want until they see it. It's the designers job is to make something that people would want and is on the marketing guys job  to sell it. Basically what I want to say is that all the research that companies like M$ do are rather pointless. If you try to design something by asking people what…