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Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by lallysingh »

really3452 wrote: post #28
coldtea wrote: post #13

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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.

I hear you. I think our best shot will be folding phones.

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Post by pmontra »

gjhr wrote: post #42
smcl wrote: post #36

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Ha, yep I feel like an absolute idiot doing that in public. My genuinely favourite hidden/unintuitive feature is the force-touch on the on-screen keyboard to see a little cursor you can scroll around the text field you are using. I hate that it's so unintuitive, but it's incredibly useful

On many Android keyboards you can hold and drag on the space bar to do the same. You can also drag back on backspace to delete whole words/sentences. Similarly unintuitive though, I only know about it because I saw someone else mention it on the Internet.

I enable the arrow keys row on SwiftKey and move with them. Phones are so tall nowadays that a few extra pixels in the keyboard mean nothing.

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by lallysingh »

dean177 wrote: post #18
lallysingh wrote: post #7

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Like a tiny down triangle in the corner? This stuff is super not hard. You just have to give a shit.

It’s incredibly hard to make a great user experience look great. Lots of people can’t tell the difference between something looking awesome and working well.

User interfaces are testable. There's a whole field of practice on this. Considering how sloppy this is (and Apple's recent trends in slop) I bet they didn't test it on all their screen sizes

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Post by abubaqar113 »

mainstream iOS app has tons of these kind of issues. Our designers seem more interested in coolness than usability. I think a lot of designers are big on artistry but low on understanding how to help people actually use things. I did UI design back in the 80's when it was actually a programmer duty more than an art thing. Of course back then were no phone sized screens and the UIs were much simpler in desktop apps. But the concept of making a UI usable for all sorts of people is still the same. Apple traditionally does not use user lab testing (which is not

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by techer »

The contacts in the share sheet annoy me. Pixel also has this “direct share” that can’t be disabled and simply uses up real estate while being a privacy issue for me. Samsung has an option in settings to remove it.

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by techer »

kup0 wrote: post #50
saagarjha wrote: post #3

I'm personally torn on the new share sheet. It's actually fast now, which is nice, and I like the fact that it (supposedly) can put contacts in the top bar that I talk to frequently (which I guess no app has added support for yet?) But it's still a bit confusing how it's organized, and now it has two planes of scrolling and sometimes apps disappear off of them unless I pin them in "Favorites" or something like that a…

I've seen the contacts in the top bar, though I can't remember what apps use them. Maybe the share option in Photos. I find it annoying that I cannot turn it off. It's very easy to accidentally get close to sending a contact an image I do not want to send them

Pixel has this too. Samsung allows disabling. I just want the apps.

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Post by toper-centage »

helpPeople wrote: post #16
the_duke wrote: post #10

I 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…

Dunno about iOS but on android, one of the first things I do on a new phone is set all animations to twice the speed. I can't stand these sluggish animations.

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by [deleted] »

gjhr wrote: post #42
smcl wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha, yep I feel like an absolute idiot doing that in public. My genuinely favourite hidden/unintuitive feature is the force-touch on the on-screen keyboard to see a little cursor you can scroll around the text field you are using. I hate that it's so unintuitive, but it's incredibly useful

On many Android keyboards you can hold and drag on the space bar to do the same. You can also drag back on backspace to delete whole words/sentences. Similarly unintuitive though, I only know about it because I saw someone else mention it on the Internet.

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Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by projektfu »

It took me a long time to figure out in the first place that I had to “share” to do actions that are not sharing, like saving to my photos. I was also surprised by this new wrinkle on the iPhone SE. I’d use android if I had a phone in this form factor.
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