Users can navigate to destinations by touching elements.

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Navigational gestures help users to move through a product easily. They supplement other explicit input methods, like buttons and navigation components.

Types of navigation gestures include:

- Tap
- Scroll and pan
- Drag
- Swipe
- Pinch

Navigational gestures

Users can slide surfaces vertically, horizontally, or omnidirectionally to move continuously through content.

Scroll and pan

Users can slide surfaces to bring them into and out of view.

Drag

Users can move surfaces horizontally to navigate between peers, like tabs.

Swipe

Users can scale surfaces to navigate between screens.

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