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Designing for Touch

Design — A guide for designing touch interfaces [Design Books, Books]
Designperpetualest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+32.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+32.0). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 16 probesavg response 2437 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
abookapart.com
edge
direct origin
server
Netlify
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Designing for Touch's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Ways to Connectdesignsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
Grammar for Creatorseducationtag-overlap80%8.00.0— unverified
The Elements of Typographic Styledesignsimilar80%40.00.0● live
Show Your Workeducationtag-overlap80%47.4+4.8● live
Laws of UX (The Book)educationtag-overlap67%40.00.0● live
Keynote Prototyping Master Classdesignsimilar67%16.0+8.0→ redirected
TragicDesigneducationtag-overlap67%40.00.0● live
Alien World'shardwaretag-overlap67%8.2-22.4— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelperpetual
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:32Z200abookapart.comNetlify4669alive
2026-08-19 13:47Z200abookapart.comNetlify1237alive
2026-08-11 00:24Z200abookapart.comNetlify1149alive
2026-08-08 06:15Z200abookapart.comNetlify1222alive
2026-08-05 18:36Z200abookapart.comNetlify1444alive
2026-07-30 17:50Z200abookapart.comNetlify2134alive
2026-07-22 09:40Z10003timeout
2026-07-17 09:22Z200abookapart.comNetlify1838alive
2026-07-10 10:45Z200abookapart.comNetlify1599alive
2026-07-04 09:36Z200abookapart.comNetlify3044alive
2026-06-23 13:52Z200abookapart.comNetlify1101alive
2026-06-21 10:44Z200abookapart.comNetlify1587alive
2026-06-20 00:36Z200abookapart.comNetlify1566alive
2026-06-18 22:52Z200abookapart.comNetlify1529alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Designing for Touch · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/designing-for-touch · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.