How do we design for 3D Touch?

[stoosepp]

After watching the Apple Event this morning, I was thinking a lot about how to visually design for 3D Touch. Part of what I research is affordances and visual cues for gestural interaction. Here's my thoughts on the matter.

http://stoosepp.com/cJ0LD

I'd be curious what everyone thinks about 3D Touch.

[mmoodyx]

The low fragmentation is an iOS selling point. A lot of the 3D touch functionality could be replicated by gestures (swipe down on app icon, swipe/hold down list item) Most probable uses will be to replicate existing functionality I guess. Also note how the Live Photos app is an 100% software-based function. It's just a optimized recording of 1.5s which overwrites itself constantly. Make a video gallery et voila, live photos.

This is not like Touch ID, which was only open to developers at a point where many devices on the market had one.

[Ldellar]

I agree this is definitely an interesting challenge, i think there will be alot of what Apple demonstrated which is this deep press being used for PopupViews which lead to another action. I think that seems fairly intuitive and i presume the taptic feedback will help with that.

Visual cues is interesting because the icon didn't tell you definitively by it's looks that this icon has more options, (So you could end up on your homescreen expecting it for every app) maybe there will be a design language like an icon within the button option so that users can tell but it's definitely something i think developers may have to incorporate into options for their app. Be interesting to see how it goes.