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Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Post by JAFTEM »

freshyill wrote: post #42

Paper is a nice app but the biggest problem is that it's still full of garbage. Even though I've unsubscribed from the worst offenders of my FB friends, 90% of what's in my news feed is still crap. Paper kills the ability to quickly scan the feed for the 10 percent of stuff that might interest me even momentarily. I can either see one thing at a time with the stories full screen, or three things at a time with them i…

> "It's certainly pretty and with some content other than my Facebook feed, it might be a good interface. It would be perfect if I wanted to read 90 percent of this stuff."

Isn't this what Flipboard does?

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Post by timmins »

I've followed LukeW's version of reachable areas of the screen in my UI design. I think you've improved upon his.

I also find it fascinating how Facebook's main iOS app and Paper (per your article) conflict with your reachable zone. In the major app, they relegate the Search action in the farthest corner from right hand users. In addition, their overflow button on the bottom tab bar sits in the other 'Ow' zone.

Great write up.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Post by badusername »

Biggest problem I had with my perusal of the app was the text on the lower cards is just way too small to be legible from a reading distance. Making the cards full-screen just slows down my interaction with it, requiring a swipe for every card.

Overall, it's a good interface for reading news articles and blog posts. It seemed like a terrible interface for going through status updates and wall posts.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Post by ltray »

I don't really have the issue with comfort as described here, but it does suck that the main source of mass content consumption (the bottom carousel) is mostly blocked by the natural place your thumb would be. Viewing content in full-screen is too slow for something like facebook, of which many of the posts you don't care much about.

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Post by zmk_ »

samstave wrote: post #46
Encosia wrote: post #36

Am I the only one who is right-handed, but doesn't hold their iPhone like that? I rest the bottom of the phone on the top side of my pinky finger, which puts it higher in my hand and doesn't require the "hook" to swipe right-to-left in the bottom half of the screen.

I too hold my phone as you do, as I read on bart whilst also holding a bike and a cup of coffee each morning... however - the issue with the way we hod our phone is that my grip tends to need to be really light on the phone and I am prone to drop it easily - because to battle the "OW" areas of the phone, I need to rotate between portrait and landscape often...

You only have a worse grip of the device when you actually use the thumb probably. When I hold a phone this way and do not actively interact with it, my thumb usually presses on the edge of the device, making the grip firm.

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Post by nevster »

stevenp wrote: post #38

Now I'm paranoid that I might be a weirdo for holding my phone primarily in my left hand even though I'm right-handed. Am I alone in that? I think the reason I do it is because text and navigation are generally left-to-right, so having my thumb on the left side of the screen feels more natural. The animation in this post seems to confirm that.

I was just about to comment the same. Right-handed but mostly use my left hand to use the phone. Because my right hand is often doing more important things! Using a mouse etc.

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Post by debt »

Encosia wrote: post #36

Am I the only one who is right-handed, but doesn't hold their iPhone like that? I rest the bottom of the phone on the top side of my pinky finger, which puts it higher in my hand and doesn't require the "hook" to swipe right-to-left in the bottom half of the screen.

Maybe he lives in a high-crime area and thus must always be ready to quickly grasp the phone in case he gets "picked".

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/09/iphone-thefts...

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Post by jbeja »

stevenp wrote: post #38

Now I'm paranoid that I might be a weirdo for holding my phone primarily in my left hand even though I'm right-handed. Am I alone in that? I think the reason I do it is because text and navigation are generally left-to-right, so having my thumb on the left side of the screen feels more natural. The animation in this post seems to confirm that.

Well i am left handed and use my phone with my right hand.

Re: Facebook Paper's gesture problems

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Post by userbinator »

nchlswu wrote: post #8

I've been fascinated with phone placement in hands for product shots. It always seemed like a little bit of a cheat - especially when the elongated 5 came out - just to show one handed use of a device is possible. For me at least, the way the phone is positioned is hardly comfortable. The bottom right corner at the base of the thumb exacerbates the problem the author's talking about. When I hold the phone higher in m…

I think it also depends on how big your hands are, and how long your fingers are. I have a 5" device and I can still comfortably touch anywhere on the whole screen with my thumb; the only "ow" spot for me is at the very bottom right corner.
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