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Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by wizzard »

dpcan wrote: post #156

"But I see them impact my aging parents all the time." I've realized lately that I'm actually entering this zone. For the last 20 years I've been talking about how stuff like this is a nightmare for the "aging" community. 20 years is a long time, and now I'm falling into it. The big one for me in this new version of iOS was that: 1) I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my…

Re: 1), you also have to place the cursor before you can grab it and move it. You used to be able to place it precisely in one step using a long press to get the the magnifying glass, but now that selects the word under your finger instead.

If there’s no cursor yet, you have to 1) tap somewhere to get a cursor to appear, 2) drag it where you want it.

Super annoying to change such a basic, useful functionality.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

djsumdog wrote: post #165
rlv-dan wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like much of the design rules that evolved by experience is being thrown away by designers because they don't think it's looks nice or is clean enough. Interfaces like Windows 95 that are neither too early nor too modern seem to be really excellent at conveying meaningful information to the user.

The Windows 95/98 scroll bars were vastly superior to those in Win10. No matter the size of the window or the scrollable content, you can tell what is the scroll bar and what isn't. On Win 10 it's sometimes ambiguous. Removing the scroll bar when you're not scrolling is the worst design decision.

Hmm, idk, perhaps a midway between removal and hiding would be to collapse it to ~1px so you gain real estate but still see the position in the document?

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by samfriedman »

rlv-dan wrote: post #15

Grumpy Website deserves to be mentioned here: https://grumpy.website/

Wow, this one's actually crazy! https://grumpy.website/post/0Sar_W_5D

I already mis-swipe in my Reddit app and downvote instead of upvote... the "small" vs "large" swipe option feels like something that gets mis-input a lot. Okay for something inconsequential like votes, but I can't imagine deleting something I wanted to save because of it.

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by war1025 »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #200
war1025 wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I managed to lock myself out of the office earlier this year on a work from home day, so no one I worked with was there and my phone / keys were at my desk. We're in an office park, so I could still get into the building, just not into our office. Wandered around a while hoping to find someone that would let me use their computer. Eventually found someone I'd seen a couple times before. Told them I was locked out and…

You know, those things can also make something called a 'phone call' where you are voice-connected?

Not so easy to do when you haven't committed your coworkers numbers to memory.

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by guptaneil »

MiroF wrote: post #149
newscracker wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The poor design described in the article is really bad. But > 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. This is exactly how I feel when I pick an Android phone (even with stock Android). Finding apps and launching them quickly seems like an art to learn. And don’t even get me started on how settings…

I use both and am now a current iPhone user. Certain things on iPhone (like muting all notifications with "Do Not Disturb" are much more unintuitive on the iPhone)

I’m genuinely curious, how do you turn on Do Not Disturb in Android? On iOS, you swipe the top right corner to open the control panel and then tap the moon icon for enabling Do Not Disturb. I won’t argue that magically knowing the control panel is in the top right corner or that moon == Do Not Disturb is intuitive, but I am curious how android does it that is significantly better?

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Post by notyourday »

dpcan wrote: post #156

"But I see them impact my aging parents all the time." I've realized lately that I'm actually entering this zone. For the last 20 years I've been talking about how stuff like this is a nightmare for the "aging" community. 20 years is a long time, and now I'm falling into it. The big one for me in this new version of iOS was that: 1) I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my…

> It feels like change for the sake of change when it worked perfectly before.

Companies hire too many designers, developers, project manager and product managers which means they must do something to occupy their time. Bug fixing is boring. Writing something new is sexy. Sexy > boring so you get a "new and improved" version.

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by nradov »

achow wrote: post #96
coldcode wrote: post #48

Our 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 app…

> 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. This stereotyping of a profession is becoming a cliché and is being rude towards a profession who has contributed so much to make technology accessible. The example in the blog would not have been intention of the design spec, it looks like mo…

If that's true then how did we end up with garbage like "Material Design" and similar flat UI themes?

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by jakear »

Ugh... it’s the same in Apple Music (as tfa mentions). Biggest iOS 13 complaint: going from a a song on a list to it either at the beginning or end of your queue used to be:

Toich and hold on song, move finger to “play next” or “play later” button, release.

Now, it’s: touch and hold on song, release when menu comes up. Scroll menu up. Tap button.

Sounds small, but it’s such a usability setback for no gain. I want a full screen modal, that’s why I’m going into the song options. Why would I press and hold on the song, then only want half of its options?

Re: Perfectly Cropped

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Post by oehpr »

whatshisface wrote: post #161
hemmert wrote: post #24

On 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...)

Eventually, they will remove the display from iPhones entirely, reducing them to a transparent touchscreen that speaks to you in whirs and beeps through your AirPods. Then even the touchscreen will be removed, to be replaced by a LIDAR chip mounted around your belt buckle. The design of the Great Wizards of Old will have come to fruition, and men will call forth driving directions and Amazon orders using mystic incan…

And people think WH40K is silly.

Look at us trying to appease the machine spirits.

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Post by techer »

Sendotsh wrote: post #87
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…

The top bar for me shows 2 contacts and the rest are empty spaces. Both contacts are people I haven’t spoken to in months/years. One is my MIL who I never text and just occasionally receive a call from. Meanwhile the people I message near daily don’t show up anywhere. The top bar is completely and utterly useless, and causes common tasks to be cut off below a fold I didn’t even know existed until OPs post. Apple. It…

Google pixel is as rigid in this case. Samsung allows disabling this.
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