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iOS is in dire need of new UX patterns. Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release. There a ton of papercuts like this in iOS.
I don't use Android regularly so I can't speak as much to its weaknesses, but I believe there's a lot of room for improvement there as well, e.g. app discovery and distribution
There's a photo floating around of Paris Hilton holding 5 phones. It's comical but I think it also shows what's lacking. It'd be great if phones had sandboxed profiles, completely isolated from one another in true multiuser fashion. There are a lot of opportunities either for greenfield ideas or adopting existing computing ideas to phones. You might find at least enough market for a niche use capable of supporting a small to medium business
I actually think there's still potentially room for a new phone OS, though maybe only just barely. iOS is in dire need of new UX patterns. Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release. There a ton of papercuts like this in iOS. I don't use Android regularly so I can't speak as much to its weaknesses, but I believe there's a lot of room for im…
I'm not familiar with touch alternatives to iOS' text selector. Do you know of better ones, or have ideas how it can be improved?
I actually think there's still potentially room for a new phone OS, though maybe only just barely. iOS is in dire need of new UX patterns. Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release. There a ton of papercuts like this in iOS. I don't use Android regularly so I can't speak as much to its weaknesses, but I believe there's a lot of room for im…
iOS is in dire need of new UX patterns. Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release. I'm not familiar with touch alternatives to iOS' text selector. Do you know of better ones, or have ideas how it can be improved?
One concrete idea comes to mind - why not a modal dialog that only has selection abilties. If the default behavior works, then use it and if not, move up to the modal
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iOS is in dire need of new UX patterns. Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release. I'm not familiar with touch alternatives to iOS' text selector. Do you know of better ones, or have ideas how it can be improved?
I have to admit that I'm not, but I do think that iOS's is deeply flawed, especially considering its snap to behavior which has no overrides or disambiguation for where to snap. I'm not a UX person and my mind doesn't naturally work on that domain, and yet I'm confident that UX people could improve the process. One concrete idea comes to mind - why not a modal dialog that only has selection abilties. If the default b…
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I have to admit that I'm not, but I do think that iOS's is deeply flawed, especially considering its snap to behavior which has no overrides or disambiguation for where to snap. I'm not a UX person and my mind doesn't naturally work on that domain, and yet I'm confident that UX people could improve the process. One concrete idea comes to mind - why not a modal dialog that only has selection abilties. If the default b…
I'd love to hear more about your idea. Care to expand with an example of how it would work? What kind of overrides are you thinking of? What would the role of the modal dialog be?
Just in general I think the snap behavior needs to be massively overhauled
Anyone can think of ideas. I'm sure we've all got entire documents with lists of ideas we never followed up on. The hard part is finding opportunities to create value for others (making stuff people actually want). Generally speaking, people already have the stuff they want that they can have. Now, I'm sure Paul Graham would say people's desires are infinite and there's still many unmet needs and wants. For All the s…
Look at slack. We thought people had all the stuff they wanted but slack came out of nowhere. We thought skype/sms/gtalk was good enough and came WhatsApp. And snapchat, now it might look like a neat idea, but imagine that couple of years back.
There is always room for disruption. Few categories of products are almost like fashion. There is no additional value they are bringing to the table. And there is no logical reasoning or no proper prediction possible on what becomes the next big thing.
Then there is this room for replicating similar succuccessful ideas in emerging markets. Hundreds of ideas waiting to be explored in hundreds of markets.
Then the unexplored beast of enterprise software. Not the makrt of consumer products rebranded as 'for' enterprise but actual tools or services that improves existing ones, many of which are decades old. But you need to be deep inside the domain to disrupt here.
And of course finally the innovative ones. Which are the hardest but perhaps the most publicised making an impression that startups are all about innovative ideas.
Imagine what Leibniz would say of this.
I actually think there's still potentially room for a new phone OS, though maybe only just barely. iOS is in dire need of new UX patterns. Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release. There a ton of papercuts like this in iOS. I don't use Android regularly so I can't speak as much to its weaknesses, but I believe there's a lot of room for im…
I want my phone OS and my laptop OS to be in sync, I want to program using my phone and many many more features. But both iOS and Android lock us out of the real stuff by making locking things up. Just imagine how the computing landscape would have been if Linux wasn't open and as locked up as the "FOSS" android. We'd be still using and cursing Windows3.4