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The user only uses the application in the platforms that one uses Most people only use one desktop and one mobile OS, but it's extremely common to use the same
by laughinghan 7y ago
The user only uses the application in the platforms that one uses
Most people only use one desktop and one mobile OS, but it's extremely common to use the same app on both desktop and mobile.
If your Mac and Windows apps both have to be consistent with your iOS app, they end up having to be consistent with each other.
- pcr910303 7y agoI can confidently say that people doesn’t expect the same UI between mobile & desktop apps. If the Mac version and Windows version of the app can be consistent with the mobile version(which will have different interfaces), why can’t they be consistent with each other(between the two desktop apps) while having different interfaces?
- laughinghan 7y agoNo one has suggested that people "expect the same UI between mobile & desktop apps". The point under discussion is that it's desirable for apps to have "coherence and familiarity" across platforms. It's important that there be coherence and familiarity between Slack and Spotify's mobile, desktop, and web apps, for example, because most of their customers will use at least 2 of the 3 in any given week, which likely contributed to their choice to use Electron for their desktop apps.