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The web puts us in a usability death-spiral. It's easy to use an onClick div to make a beautiful pop-up menu, but harder to support much more than clicking on a
by ridiculous_fish 7y ago
The web puts us in a usability death-spiral. It's easy to use an onClick div to make a beautiful pop-up menu, but harder to support much more than clicking on an item. This in turn trains users to only click, which further erodes the case for any sort of richer interaction.
This is bleeding into basic browser functions. Find and scroll bars are routinely broken by the infinite scroll paradigm. Undo/cut/copy/paste are broken in customized rich text editing. Eventually these features will atrophy and fall off.
- floren 7y agoIf you want a vision of the future, imagine a finger scrolling on a touchscreen -- forever.
- entropicdrifter 7y agoHow is that the future and not just a description of current social media apps on mobile/tablet devices?
- hyperdimension 7y agoJust in case someone doesn't get the parent post's quote, it's a riff off of a famous George Orwell quote, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face, forever.
- itronitron 7y agowhy should I have to touch the screen though when I can tilt it back to scroll up and tilt it forward to scroll down?
- voldacar 7y agoYou jest, but it's hauntingly true
- int_19h 7y agoAnd if you want a vision of the future on the desktop specifically, imagine the same, except without a touchscreen.