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I still don't understand how Apple does noet update their guidelines. Navigation and the top bar are sch a pain to use. Reachability helps, but it's just bandaid around bad decisions
Android's browser way back when (c. 2011?) had an amazing option for this; you'd swipe from the edge and a radial menu would appear where your finger was. Could do everything from back, forward, refresh, to opening the url bar, to switching tabs, and even saving and navigating bookmarks. Honestly it's the still pinnacle of cute and clever UX for me. Edit: Found it~ It was Settings > Labs > Quick Controls https://cdn5…
> 90% of the smartphones sold today have bigger than 5-inch displays. I want a smaller display but they're just not being made anymore. For the past few years if you wanted better specs, you _had_ to get the bigger model. iPhone SE still being in demand indicates that there's a market for people who want smaller phones, if given the choice.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-18/apple-s-o...
I had long thought that Apple was about to have a big shift in native UI components, because for years they have been shipping first party apps that have card based interfaces that progressively disclose complexity as the card is pulled up from the bottom. Maps and Music are the most obvious examples of this paradigm, but ever since iPhone 6 Plus, a back button in the top left has been a bad paradigm (although the sy…
Since almost every app on iOS supports swipe to go back, I use that. It's crazy to me that people don't use this...
One of my family members has only one hand, the left. They would love to have a camera on hand to capture spontaneous moments around their young children. But choosing a smartphone is a compromise between buying a low-level phone that is small enough to be operated with one hand, normally leaving you with a terrible camera, or one with a decent(-ish) camera that is a pain/impossible to use day to day due to the scree…
One of my family members has only one hand, the left. They would love to have a camera on hand to capture spontaneous moments around their young children. But choosing a smartphone is a compromise between buying a low-level phone that is small enough to be operated with one hand, normally leaving you with a terrible camera, or one with a decent(-ish) camera that is a pain/impossible to use day to day due to the scree…
The CPU etc is in league with the large phones, but it's small. A double press of the power button opens the camera, and there's a physical shutter button on the side of the phone.
I had long thought that Apple was about to have a big shift in native UI components, because for years they have been shipping first party apps that have card based interfaces that progressively disclose complexity as the card is pulled up from the bottom. Maps and Music are the most obvious examples of this paradigm, but ever since iPhone 6 Plus, a back button in the top left has been a bad paradigm (although the sy…
I don't know if its still the case or not, but a lack of a system wide swipe-from-left-edge to go back was the primary reason I couldn't use Android a couple of years ago. Having to move my thumb down to the back button just always felt so unnatural and clunky. I really hope this is fixed now in newer versions of Android.
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I remember this being a thing for sometime, years ago as you said - always found this approach very interesting and resulting in beautiful and diverse UIs. Sadly this trend seems to have faded away together with the rejection of skeumorphism and the advent of "design systems" (eg component lib based design)
Back then the UIs and OSes were less set in stone. Nowadays we have two mobile UIs: iOS and Android (while there's also the gesture-based SailfishOS [1]). Just like everyone's a Qwerty user, which isn't necessarily the most efficient, even on mobile (example [2]). Problem is, you can only deviate so much from the defaults/standards. [1] https://sailfishos.org/design/gestures/ [2] https://keybee.it/
There is a whole world outside there, you know ? :)
I agree with you on the point that those are not the most efficient layout nowadays though.
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Interestingly, such UI (well done, but seen such before) challenges the whole size of the smartphone as we know it, akin to a gaming keypad [1] challenging a keyboard. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_keypad
If you want to take it a step further you can look into something such as Azeron[1], I've ordered one myself. But prooduction time is quite long (3 months). So I haven't experienced it myself, ordered it because of RSI issues. [1] https://azeron.eu
One of my family members has only one hand, the left. They would love to have a camera on hand to capture spontaneous moments around their young children. But choosing a smartphone is a compromise between buying a low-level phone that is small enough to be operated with one hand, normally leaving you with a terrible camera, or one with a decent(-ish) camera that is a pain/impossible to use day to day due to the scree…