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Am I the only one who has to think twice every time I see one of those controls; "does the text mean that it's currently off, or does it mean that sliding it ov
by m_eiman 17y ago
Am I the only one who has to think twice every time I see one of those controls; "does the text mean that it's currently off, or does it mean that sliding it over there will turn it off"?
- panic 17y agoThis makes sense if there is a button labeled "off", but in this case the middle of the slider is unlabeled. The part you interact with (at least if the slider were a physical object) is different from the part that displays the state, which sidesteps this ambiguity in a pretty clever way.
- m_eiman 17y agoWhat I see is a button with a grayed out text next to it that says "Off" (or even worse, just "O"). Maybe I'm just damaged from having tried to understand more or less broken GUIs the last twenty years and overthink it :P Another thing that annoys me with them is that the buttony part doesn't really stand out as a button, I think part of my problem is that I actually interpret the button as the background - and then what I see is an empty space with a button labeled "Off" next to it.
- faramarz 17y agoReally? If anything, over the years the use of computers and standard UI's have trained us you to associate light-shades to OFF/inactive and bright-contrast or colour with active/ON.
- ajross 17y agoNot as much as they've trained us to associate check boxes with a mark in them with "enabled/on/yes" and empty boxes with "disabled/off/no". I agree with the grandparent post. This feature trades usability for eye candy. Bad idea.
- there 17y agobut in this case you don't see the bright color and "on" part until you slide it, and having to do that just to figure it out is not very intuitive.
- lanstein 17y agoNope, and the worst one I remember offhand is the mute button on the Treo. Nothing worse than making a comment, looking at the phone, and not being able to tell if you were muted or not.