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Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by icemelt8 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #177
kristopolous wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a big believer that toddlers are a large contribution to behavior analytics and dictate modern design by analytics. They're the ones that will click on ads and "browse" a site. They interact in a much richer way than I do. I've often heard that a sites most "active" users seem to be women in their mid 30s. That's because those stats include the woman and the toddlers she hands the phones to. I've been frequently…

Oh my god. As a father of two small kids (4 y.o. and ~1.75 y.o), I've been watching this happen in front of me every day for years, yet somehow the implications never registered. Thank you for writing this - and yes, I absolutely, wholeheartedly agree. Even though we're way below what seems to be average in terms of exposing kids to digital content, at this point my wife's digital activity on Spotify, YouTube, Netfli…

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Post by appel »

wodenokoto wrote: post #169

Speaking of slide to unlock, does anyone know why accepting app installs require double clicking the lock-button instead of sliding?

I presume having to interact physically via hardware adds an additional layer of security.

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Post by PebblesRox »

schmorptron wrote: post #161
PebblesRox wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!) Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone…

I wouldve just had them change the shipping address, that sort of album / canvas is the stuff you as parents will be cackling over for decades to come :D

Unfortunately it was too late to change the address by the time I discovered it, but we, uh, actually did order our own copy (from a much cheaper photo place) and it's currently hanging on the wall in our kitchen.

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Post by mgbmtl »

Phelinofist wrote: post #73

This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it. Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug

Android (on my Pixel6) does this in a more subtle way, which I think is Ok:

Swipe bottom to up, to show the list of open apps, it will detect the images on the app preview. Click on an image, and there is a "shopping" option (part of Google lenses).

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by zuprau »

xg15 wrote: post #37

I think that's the first nontrivial use of multitouch that I have seen in the wild (i.e. that is not basic "pinch to zoom" stuff). Really cool!

Early iPhone/iPad games were really creative with this before everyone just settled on making candy crush games.

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by lofatdairy »

version_five wrote: post #45
rkagerer wrote: post #38

What's annoying and counter to popular convention / user expectations is that you have to keep your finger in the established path to keep grip of the "ball". (S'pecially given your finger often blocks the view of it).

That's the whole point of the game, no? It was what I expected. Are some slide to unlock bars "ratchets" that stay where you left them?

For me it wasn't that the slide doesn't stay in place (that much is expected), but that if you deviate from the path it immediately slips back to the beginning. That's a bit anti-pattern w.r.t. typical slides that either have a forgiveness zone around the element or update to the point on the slide nearest to the gesture point.
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