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There isn't anything wrong with the wrap-around. If you're at the top of the list you shouldn't scroll up, you should be scrolling down towards the bottom.
by mstefff 18y ago
There isn't anything wrong with the wrap-around. If you're at the top of the list you shouldn't scroll up, you should be scrolling down towards the bottom.
- alex_c 18y agoUser: Feature X makes it unusable for me. Developer: There isn't anything wrong with feature X. That is not a very healthy attitude towards feedback... good luck training users to do something they don't want. You have to account for dumb user behaviour and prevent unexpected results.
- byrneseyeview 18y agoHave you watched someone actually use your app? Here's how it went for me: start at the top, scroll down a few days, scroll back up to the top, somehow end up scrolled back weeks. It's arbitrary to loop after a few days -- if you could collect data going back to the beginning of each company's history, that might be more sensible. I don't see any real-world analogue to going forward from the present and ending up several weeks in the past, and having to embrace a brand-new paradigm in order to use the interface is perhaps not what you need to do to your users.
- mstefff 18y agoThe list of items goes back the latest 100 items. When you are scrolling towards the bottom and you reach the end, it brings you back to the top.
- axod 18y agoReally really unintuitive.
- swombat 18y agoAfter asking your users for feedback, it's generally useful to listen to them. Here you have a sample of users who are saying the wrap-around navigation is totally broken for them. What's the right answer to that? Hint: it's not: "No, you're wrong, it works fine."
- mstefff 18y agoI was just explaining the idea behind it. I'm not disagreeing. I'm removing the scrolling mechanism for the article list completely.