Try: Haptic feedback design

[iamthomasbishop]

Haptics are an often overlooked tool in the WP apps, and I think a number of interactions would benefit from some thoughtful use of feedback. Some ideas:

• Block toolbar: when a Toolbar button is selected
• Any trigger that opens a sheet: a very quick bit when the inserter is tapped
• When tapping to switch selection to a new block
• When performing a destructive action such as deleting a block
• When moving a block up or down on canvas
• When long pressing on something shows an actionSheet or similar

Note: I am unsure if this is something that we’d use a library for or if we are able to map directly to the native haptics, so that will require some exploration.

[jd-alexander]

If we decide to go ahead and implement this functionality there's a library that does this really well that we could use as inspiration to provide support for this on iOS and presumably Android as well.

[iamthomasbishop]

@jd-alexander That would be great! I don't think it's is a high priority, but when we get a chance to work on it, I think it'd be worth starting with these two interactions:

• When performing a destructive action such as deleting a block
• When long pressing on something shows an actionSheet or similar (note: we don't have this anywhere in the editor, but there has been discussion about showing the More (•••) menu when the user long-presses on a block(*)

(*) Note: This probably deserves its own separate ticket, but here's an overview: For selected blocks, we might want to limit the long-press target to the inline toolbar (shown only when a block is selected) because a long-press gesture on some components inside the block — i.e. RichText inputs — would inherit the system behavior (for RichText, long-press would either select some text or position the cursor). In the case of unselected blocks, we could show the sheet upon long-press regardless of what is inside the block.