I have an ipad at work we can't sign into, since we changed the email address on the iCloud account (months ago), and the old address is on a domain we don't use any more...
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#22I had exactly the same experience. It really is not obvious that additional buttons lurk just offscreen in that dialog.
Me too! Until reading this article, I hadn't found the other commands. I had been missing "Save image" and "Set as wallpaper" and wondered why they had become so difficult to access. FYI, it's also possible to save a photo in iMessages by long-pressing it.
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#23Simple solution: add a blur gradient at the bottom so people know there is "something more" going on down there.
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#24On my iPhone SE, it is also well-spaced and perfectly cropped, omitting the 'copy' row and perfectly finishing below the second line of icons.
(I actually have a PhD in human-computer interaction and I'm a professor for UX design. It took me a two days to figure out where all those functions, which somehow appeared to be accessible 'only through apps' (or people ;)), went. Oh well...)
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#25This is certainly not an excuse for the clearly bad UI design the article describes for iOS, but unfortunately Apple is not the only one afflicted with that disease. The situation on Android is not exactly rosy either.
I get particularly aware of the serious UI problems when trying to use GPS navigation (waze, here, google maps) in a car. Buttons with various colours, contours and sizes, non-intuitive interactions where one has to swipe starting from various confined areas, annoying dialogs or confirmation screens appearing one after the other, sometimes even spontaneously. There is not even a modicum of consistency regarding the most basic elements, e.g. a yes-no question or a dismissible message.
I hate to say it, but the first iOS of 2016 was (and probably remains) a champion of elegant and consistent UI design. Today, it's almost as if the iOS and Android ecosystems are competing for who has the most unintuitive and confusing UI.
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#26With the proliferation of different screen sizes and zoom factors, these kinds of usability problems will continue to happen. The only way I see around this is by re-introducing the 'obvious scroll bar' element, or alternatively a different kind of indicator that advertises where the current view is in relation to the entire content.
Like a tiny down triangle in the corner? This stuff is super not hard. You just have to give a shit.
> Like a tiny down triangle in the corner? This stuff is super not hard.
That's also what I suggested in my answer to onion2k below. I agree, it's not hard. But it does require their design team to overcome some instinctive minimalism.
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#27...This blog post explains an issue I have been experiencing that I didn't realize I had.
iOS has always had some very explicit misses on affordances. Force touch led to a lot of them.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The only way I see around this is by re-introducing the 'obvious scroll bar' element... Or Apple could do the right thing and go back to a 3.5" screen size on all their phones, no exceptions. Even a 4" screen size would be better than these clown-phone monstrosities. IOS could then just dead-pixel all pixels outside of the center 3.5" screen on all existing clown-phones for backwards compatibility.
Is this supposed to be sarcasm? People it's clearly an unpopular opinion, and those bigger screens literally fly off the shelves...
> Is this supposed to be sarcasm?
Nope. A few years ago I used to really want a large-screened phone. Then I got one with a 5" screen and found out its clunky and awful to carry around. Standardizing the screen back to 4" or 3.5" would greatly improve my tolerance for carrying it around and, if the resolution were also standardized, would greatly simplify UX design.
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#29It's that crappy "flat design" BS that provides minimal meaningless indicators. An entire generation of designers needs to unlearn this crap.
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#30I switched to Android around the time iPhone 5 came out. Whenever I touch one now, I feel like a idiot and dinosaur. It can take me minutes to figure out the most basic things, and often I end up searching on the web. In the pursuit of a "clean" UI, iOS has become completely unintuitive and confusing.
My complaints are that the OS seems slow. Maybe it's the animations, but it feels slow. Or when podcasts are buffering, instead of giving an indication, the play button stays on pause. Confused me until someone on the internet told me. The UI is unintuitive, but for work purposes it was fine. Found the near daily updates I had to "sign in" AND enter passcode for annoying. Especially when I was in work crisis mode. No…
Just FYI, you can turn off all the animations in Accessibility -> Reduce Motion.