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I found this true of the mouse on a Mac. Which one? I don't know- it was my cousin's. I don't remember the details but I was looking for a context menu to do
by dhimes 7y ago
I found this true of the mouse on a Mac. Which one? I don't know- it was my cousin's. I don't remember the details but I was looking for a context menu to do some normal context-menu-y stuff like adjust the size of a picture or something- or maybe save a picture in a browser. I couldn't for the life of me figure it out (and I cut my teeth on a Mac+, had all the Inside Macintosh books, fooled around with assembly language programming, and so on). Then my hand accidentally brushed the mouse. Turned out, to get the context menu, you had to brush the mouse.
There's a similar "swipe a surface that doesn't look like an active surface" trip on the apple TV remote as well.
I may be old-fashioned, but those are very unintuitive in my estimation and I consider them poor design. The look good in pictures, though.
I love, however, my iphone 11. There's somehow more of a conceptual root to all of it- to the point that after I had it for two weeks and someone asked me if I missed the home button I really couldn't remember what all the home button did. I do have to fool around with it to get a screen shot, but it was the same with the home button. Could never remember the order of operations.
It does feel sometimes like it's "design first- hack the UI" though with Apple and it leads to a few annoyances.
- majormajor 7y ago> I found this true of the mouse on a Mac. Which one? I don't know- it was my cousin's. I don't remember the details but I was looking for a context menu to do some normal context-menu-y stuff like adjust the size of a picture or something- or maybe save a picture in a browser. I couldn't for the life of me figure it out (and I cut my teeth on a Mac+, had all the Inside Macintosh books, fooled around with assembly language programming, and so on). Then my hand accidentally brushed the mouse. Turned out, to get the context menu, you had to brush the mouse. This feels like some user-specific customization. The ctrl-click context-menu right-click-substitute has been around since 1997 (Mac OS 8), and various Apple input devices have had different sort of "right click shortcuts" since then (at least after 2007 or so? it took a while) but I don't know of a tap-to-right-click default. "Click the right side of the apparently-buttonless-mouse" and "two finger click" are the most well-known. None of these are intuitive - the context menu stuff was a power user thing in the Mac world in the late 90s), but fairly unchanging.
- dhimes 7y agoMaybe I was tapping and not brushing.