Coined by Paul Fitts in the 1950s, the law is applied to the location and size of menus and buttons in software. For example, a large button is faster to reach than a small one, and the edges of ...

For example, size increases of a few percentage ... away from all the targets….Fitts' law is not just about target size and distance; it's also about the number of targets.

With these more minimal/content interfaces, we don’t initially follow Fitts’s Law until the targets are discovered. TR: To use Rise as an example: some of its gestural interactions (like ...

As frendolargo put it when explaining Fitts' law in action, “You wouldn't, for example, put your most used apps on the second page of the iPhone home screen. You'd put it near the bottom of the ...