> Well, if you’ve been rocking the iPhone SE 2020 you would know If you’ve been rocking the original SE you’d know even better. Such a shame, it’s the best size phone I’ve had.
Have you tried the new Mini? I switched from the Pro and love it.
Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
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Re: Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
#112The Google Maps thing isn’t entirely about screen size (though I would hope it wouldn’t be quite so bad on larger screens—but I’m only familiar with how it looks on a small-by-modern-standards Android phone, where it’s about the same as on the iPhone depicted in this article, or even a little less); it’s about the product’s overarching philosophy, which has changed over the past decade (in a direction I strongly disl…
While we're on the topic: YouTube, which is inherently a video content viewing service, goes out of its way to obscure the video content. The TV app, the mobile app, and the browser app all insist on overlaying the content with random garbage that no sane human being could possibly be more interested in that the content that they launched with the intention of watching! Heaven help you if you open a popular live feed…
YouTube added live chat not because of Facebook, but because of Twitch which popularized this live-video-with-synchronized-chat. (except on Twitch it's about 1-10s of delay where on YouTube it's 30+ minimum)
Facebook and YouTube then borrowed that feature when they added livestreaming.
Re: Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
#113Seeing a lot of issues here that would also be violations of WCAG guidelines, and thus be something you could bring an ADA accessibility suit against the companies over.
https://medium.com/front-end-weekly/dominos-pizza-and-web-ac...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/dominos-supreme-court.html
For all of your web projects...
90+ score in Lighthouse is a good bar to aim for.
And look for any errors in Wave or Axe -- these should be part of your requirements (starting with requirements to the design team around contrast and colors they can use, as well as requirements to the devs), and part of your QA process. Call out issues you see. Compliance with WCAG (2.1, AA for most businesses https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21) is the de facto law of the land.
Re: Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
#114For me it was Google Maps on my iPhone SE, but that was several years ago. The great GUI design for the display size is what made the classic iPhone size work. Essentially Apple decided to allow apps to be published that were terrible on smaller devices and I realized those horses weren't going to get back into the barn.
So I switched to a Samsung Flip, and I've learned that a device that has a large display and fits in my pocket is a reasonable compromise. Now they just need to be a reasonable price.
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#115My font size is set to a fairly large size. For many apps, I have no idea what to click on because no one follows the autolayout. Some (see Evernote) are so bad that I can’t even click the sign in button because the touch target seems to be on the text and the button only shows 2 letters. ¿Should I be outraged? So it goes...
iPhone and Android. So many apps have text they don't fit within their colored backgrounds, and overflow or get cut off.
Re: Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
#116The Google Maps thing isn’t entirely about screen size (though I would hope it wouldn’t be quite so bad on larger screens—but I’m only familiar with how it looks on a small-by-modern-standards Android phone, where it’s about the same as on the iPhone depicted in this article, or even a little less); it’s about the product’s overarching philosophy, which has changed over the past decade (in a direction I strongly disl…
While we're on the topic: YouTube, which is inherently a video content viewing service, goes out of its way to obscure the video content. The TV app, the mobile app, and the browser app all insist on overlaying the content with random garbage that no sane human being could possibly be more interested in that the content that they launched with the intention of watching! Heaven help you if you open a popular live feed…
You can turn off chat
Re: Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
#117Now you can imagine my pain as someone who is visually impaired and who had to increase all the sizes to the max to be able to read anything....
Re: Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
#118A big part of the problem is people just not following the guidelines. If you have a toolbar with buttons that have labels, it’s not going to fit. But if you’re following the guidelines, you don’t have labels and it fits. If you have a list with a refresh button on the bottom you have to scroll to see that button on a small screen. But if you use the standard pull to refresh control, you don’t even need the button. I…
The custom buttons without labels are a pet peeve of mine actually. I can never guess what the buttons do when they only have pictures and each app use their own icon set. There are some apps that use standard buttons that I recognize but far too many want to be fancy and roll their own making the app practically unusable unless you guess correct or press all buttons to see what they do. But you are correct in that i…
For software that you only occasionally use custom icons with no labeling is a real productivity killer.
It's so much worse on mobile without tooltips as well, maybe we need to standardise a long press giving a description or something similar
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hover is quick and natural on desktop, but why would you want to long press a tab bar button on mobile? That's long and unnatural. Just press it (quick and natural) and see what it does!
“Just press it (quick and natural) and see what it does!” And if it deletes something you wanted to keep you have learned a valuable and lasting lesson :)
Hmm I wonder if this button sells all my shares at a steep loss, guess there's only one way to find out
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#120> Well, if you’ve been rocking the iPhone SE 2020 you would know If you’ve been rocking the original SE you’d know even better. Such a shame, it’s the best size phone I’ve had.
Have you tried the new Mini? I switched from the Pro and love it.
I haven't yet, mine is still pretty fine.
But I'll buy it when this one eventually dies or is not supported anymore.