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I'm having a hard time understanding these tweets. Playing a song and adding songs to 'up next' are two different things. That dialog box has saved me multiple
by jsz0 10y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding these tweets.
Playing a song and adding songs to 'up next' are two different things. That dialog box has saved me multiple times. What's wrong with it? It only occurs when you are telling iTunes to do conflicting things that it cannot resolve by itself. It's a better outcome than clearing a playlist someone may have spent a lot of time working on.
Software update and login dialogs? Yes those are a thing many apps include. What makes these unique or interesting?
The podcasts menu seems super straight forward to me. Am I missing something here? It says exactly what it does.
Contacting the iPhone update server dialog? Once upon a time Apple's servers would go down under a heavy load of people activating new iOS devices. Presumably the dialog is there to inform you there is a problem contacting the iPhone update servers. Either way I think it's long since been changed.
- firasd 10y agoOkay. So I’m no UX expert, just a developer and I’ve also worked in product management. I think at some point, if you work in this field, you have to develop instincts around the design and experience of things. A modal (i.e. app-locking) dialog that says “contacting the iphone software update server”, which is current behavior and not changed as far as I can tell, is so far out of the realm of acceptable in my view, that if we differ on that point, we can’t even begin a discussion about the more subtle issues… (Consider that Chrome updates itself all the time; now imagine if you launched Chrome, typed in gmail.com, and it suddenly locked up all your tabs because it was ‘contacting the Chrome software update server’.) After all, design trades in subtleties, otherwise if the discussion is just about explaining the purpose for a widget, everything in an interface can be explained, even this well-known ‘bad UI’ example: http://i.imgur.com/UJXoqwR.png http://i.imgur.com/UJXoqwR.png
- omonra 10y agoI remember that file renamer program! Think it was actually rather well reviewed at the time. Didn't realize it was in some sort of bad UI hall of fame :)
- barneybooroo 10y agoThe Microsoft AutoUpdate client on OSX is a beautiful mess for this. doing anything else > Microsoft AutoUpdate starts bouncing in the dock > Modal "There are no updates for your Microsoft software at this time." dialog appears. Seeing as half of the updates it receives are FOR THE UPDATE CLIENT, it's incredible this behaviour hasn't been fixed in the last eight years.
- madeofpalk 10y ago> Contacting the iPhone update server dialog? This is a modal dialog which prevents you from changing the song or pausing it. That is bad.