![]() After playing with an iPad trackpad, I thought this blob cursor is another great demonstration of how cursors can become more useful and fun to use through changing their shape and form. In my last post on collaboration tool cursors, I outlined how mouse pointers come in different shapes and sizes these days, and can even include elements to become ' video cursors' or ' avatar cursors'. ![]() The cursor changes from dark to light depending on what's underneath it, keeping a good contrast. ![]() It's more dynamic and interactive than a regular mouse arrow though - for example, the colour adapts to different backgrounds for accessibility: Then a couple years ago, Apple reinvented the cursor to be ' touch-first' - on the new iPadOS, the cursor became a transparent round blob that interacts with elements just like a finger would. ![]() They'd always been the same slanted arrow from Xerox engineer, Douglas Engle. Until Apple's iPad cursor, the mouse arrow hadn't really evolved much since 1981. ![]()
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