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I think about this every time I use my wife's macbook. She doesn't have natural scrolling turned on for her trackpad, whereas I do. I have to temporarily rewire
by jamesjyu 9y ago
I think about this every time I use my wife's macbook. She doesn't have natural scrolling turned on for her trackpad, whereas I do. I have to temporarily rewire my brain to make it work.
Should a trackpad scroll the scroll bar, or should it scroll the surface itself? Apple wants everyone to use natural scroll because that lines up with the touch UX convention—there are no scrollbars, you scroll the surfaces directly.
- taco_emoji 9y agoI'm one of those weirdos that needs inverse Y-axis for the mouse in first-person shooters. I'm pretty sure it's because of playing flight simulators as a kid. And furthermore even though "left hand moves, right hand looks" is intuitive for me on the PC, I cannot get used to it on consoles because I'm so used to the default configuration in Goldeneye where left hand was "move forward/back & rotate left/right" and right hand was "look up/down & strafe left/right".
- dharmab 9y agoIt is possible to retrain yourself- I played inverted as a kid but switched to standard as a teenager for compatibility with more games. What really confuses me are JRPGs which invert the camera horizontally.
- cesarb 9y agoIt depends on whether you think of it as moving the content, or moving a window over the content. When reading a piece of paper, do you move the paper upwards, or do you move your eyes downward? What does pressing the "down arrow" key do, and should moving down on a trackpad move in the same direction as the "down arrow" key? Personally, I have a physical consideration: scrolling down in a document is more common than scrolling up, and to me moving the fingers down over the trackpad feel more comfortable than moving the fingers up, so I use normal scrolling instead of inverted scrolling.