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Yeah, my mum does get tense about that kind of stuff. Tech support calls to her are regularly interrupted by her saying things like "oh, what's happenened now?!

Yeah, my mum does get tense about that kind of stuff. Tech support calls to her are regularly interrupted by her saying things like "oh, what's happenened now?!" I was originally pretty down on skeumorphic design in aesthetic terms, but the new iOS design language is really hard to have intuitions about. When talking to mum about clicking on one of those blue "back" links at the top left in settings I really wish I could call it a "button", but it doesn't look like a button, so I just have to say "click X at the top left", whereas if I was able to say "the button that says X at the top left" it narrows down what she's looking for significantly. I really like the idea of a "confirm" button for significant taps, such as a phone call, which could be enabled in Settings.

dwighttk 6y ago
I would use that confirm button. In 10 years of owning an iPhone I’ve initiated ~10 phone calls that I intended and probably ~30 other calls.
dublinben 6y ago
Have you tried the "button shapes" option in the Display & Text Size section? It's not perfect, but it makes buttons a bit more obvious.
- frereubu 6y ago
  I tried that before, but unfortunately rather than showing a "button shape" it just underlines the text. That's works for things like an email address in a contact card, but not so much for the "back" links at the top left. Thanks for the suggestion though.
AnonC 6y ago
I say this with sincere belief. I hope Jony Ive’s departure from Apple results in better changes to the interface elements and interactions. While the skeuomorphic design of iOS 6 and before looked over the top in comparison to the flat designs we see now, I believe Scott Forstall had something good going on with iOS interfaces (not talking about Maps and what happened with that). Things got worse after he was fired and Jony Ive took over the UI/UX part too.
m463 6y ago
> skeumorphic design ios 7 was a real turn for the worse in that respect.

dwighttk 6y ago

I would use that confirm button. In 10 years of owning an iPhone I’ve initiated ~10 phone calls that I intended and probably ~30 other calls.

dublinben 6y ago

Have you tried the "button shapes" option in the Display & Text Size section? It's not perfect, but it makes buttons a bit more obvious.

frereubu 6y ago
I tried that before, but unfortunately rather than showing a "button shape" it just underlines the text. That's works for things like an email address in a contact card, but not so much for the "back" links at the top left. Thanks for the suggestion though.

AnonC 6y ago

I say this with sincere belief. I hope Jony Ive’s departure from Apple results in better changes to the interface elements and interactions. While the skeuomorphic design of iOS 6 and before looked over the top in comparison to the flat designs we see now, I believe Scott Forstall had something good going on with iOS interfaces (not talking about Maps and what happened with that). Things got worse after he was fired and Jony Ive took over the UI/UX part too.

m463 6y ago

> skeumorphic design ios 7 was a real turn for the worse in that respect.