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The Youtube app "before" picture is very gory. A hamburger menu and the three-dots actionbar icon? That gives me a bit of a cold sweat. Common UI interactions
by gabemart 11y ago
The Youtube app "before" picture is very gory. A hamburger menu and the three-dots actionbar icon? That gives me a bit of a cold sweat.
Common UI interactions on mobile devices are beginning to make me feel old.
- blowski 11y agohttps://twitter.com/lukew/status/590911111358242816?lang=en https://twitter.com/lukew/status/590911111358242816?lang=en
- digi_owl 11y agoAs best i recall, they come out of a misuse of Fragments elements. The original idea of Google's Fragments framework was to produce something closer to desktop interfaces on tablets. But interfaces that could also "collapse" to fit the "card stack" thinking of earlier Android. Meaning that what we now know as the hamburger menu was meant to show up as a sidebar in tablet layout, and as a first layer in phone layout. Similarly, Fragments gave us the actionbar where earlier there was a dedicated menu button. The icon was for when the number of bar entries didn't fit the available screen space. Again the thinking seemed to be that the bar would revert back to being the menu on phones.