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I have a desktop Windows only product that I sell (10s of thousands of clients). It does not have the most eye pleasing UI design but it is very functional and ergonomic. All possible actions are clearly visible and / or discoverable. And every action can be accessed in less clicks then in any of competitor's products. I actually get some praises for it. Still every once in a while I get support email telling me that…
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Why wouldn't you just Google it? It would have taken you two seconds and then you'd have known all about control centre and how to access it. Besides, none of those gestures are actually necessary; you could have gone settings app > Wifi > turn wifi on/off.
> Why wouldn't you just Google it You shouldn't have to Google for basic functionality such as WiFi toggle button.
I just do not understand apple. I have an iphone through work. I have no choice. In a text box if I misspell a word, such as impaitant, I cannot go to the middle of that word and delete 'ti' and replace with 'it'. On their file browser if the file name is long the middle is truncated with '...' and if i hold down my finger on the file to see 'info', that too has the truncated name, despite it being the only file name…
>> In a text box if I misspell a word, such as impaitant, I cannot go to the middle of that word and delete 'ti' and replace with 'it'. If you hold your finger on the textbox it should turn into a cursor which you can drag to the required position to make the edits.
I just do not understand apple. I have an iphone through work. I have no choice. In a text box if I misspell a word, such as impaitant, I cannot go to the middle of that word and delete 'ti' and replace with 'it'. On their file browser if the file name is long the middle is truncated with '...' and if i hold down my finger on the file to see 'info', that too has the truncated name, despite it being the only file name…
>> In a text box if I misspell a word, such as impaitant, I cannot go to the middle of that word and delete 'ti' and replace with 'it'. If you hold your finger on the textbox it should turn into a cursor which you can drag to the required position to make the edits.
I just made the move from Android 10 to iOS 13. I was shocked how complicated the process was. Not saying that one is more intuitive than the other. But man... No back button. The password manager didn’t integrate well. The keyboard didn’t adapt to the language I was typing in. Parameters were hidden in the settings app but sometimes also in the app itself. Force touch is impossible to predict without trying it (acti…
> No back button. Swipe from the left edge of the screen, or tap the chevron in the top left. > The lock screen and the notification panel look the same but don’t show the same information (some notifications only show up in the nOtification panel). The lock screen hides historical notifications. You can scroll down to see them.
Thanks for the tip with the lock screen!
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A couple of decades ago I worked at a company that had about 200 Mac's and a similar number of PC's. One of our favorite practical jokes was to disable the mouse on Mac's. The victim quite literally could not do a thing with the computer until the mouse was re-enabled. In sharp contrast to this most Windows users could function reasonably well without the mouse. This, of course, was a long time ago. My guess is that…
That's like saying you took the pedals out of a car and people couldn't drive, it's to be expected unless they are driving a Flintstone's car.
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To be fair, many people don't really know how to multitask on Windows or Mac OS (alt-tab, cmd-tab, etc.) either. It's not like the buttons have icons or anything on-screen to emphasize the key combo can be used to multitask. Not trying to defend Apple, but really just that interfaces in general haven't always been perfect and still have issues, not just one (mobile) platform.
People can still multitask using mouse only. It’s ok to have a hidden fast interface if you have a discoverable slow interface.
The dark theme helped, but should have been an option since day one. Pre iOS 13, the sheer amounts of white space drove me nuts.
And why did they remove visible UIButtons? I miss the real days of iOS.
One of the biggest time wasting annoyances Apple has created is the touch bar virtual escape key. I'm triggering it constantly. How did they not know this was a problem before they brought it to market? Thankfully, they're going back to a real escape key in the latest MacBook Pro. And what happened to the backlit Apple on the lid? Another sacrifice to the god of thinness? Like getting rid of the Kensington security s…
The massive amounts of white empty space in iOS 7+ makes me long for the skeuomorphic days. The dark theme helped, but should have been an option since day one. Pre iOS 13, the sheer amounts of white space drove me nuts. And why did they remove visible UIButtons? I miss the real days of iOS.