> Also, what is your background in UX? I’m studying compsci, took several classes on the topic, and have previously also participated in courses outside of uni

> Also, what is your background in UX? I’m studying compsci, took several classes on the topic, and have previously also participated in courses outside of university where we did UX work more practically. > what are you talking about? I have a Samsung S4, which the sort of "4-5 inch" (translation: 10-13 cm) phone you're talking about, yes? Scott Hurf made this helpful graphic: http://scotthurff.com/images/posts/thumb-zone-2/thumb-zones-lineup.png http://scotthurff.com/images/posts/thumb-zone-2/thumb-zones-... > I'm asking because not only do you not point out any potential solutions, you even assume these might never be solved by anyone else either, for no good reason I’m saying it’s very problematic to solve this, because the real estate that is reachable and therefore usable for controls on modern devices has significantly shifted to an area where it’s hard to place controls. The unreachable zone at the top is the reason why Google has started moving all their controls to the bottom of the screen, with bottom navigation and bottom search bar – except, now you get into the bottom-right problematic zone. Of course you can solve it – but, as I mentioned above, with current UI paradigms you’d need to waste more space. And by the time we might have solved our current UX problem, our phones will have changed already again, so the solution is irrelevant. Just like today’s top bar and left navigation started to become popular right before today’s oversized phones got popular.