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I remember those dark days when everyone was using a different icon for "share" and you never really knew what icon did what. The icons even changed across Andr
by puranjay 6y ago
I remember those dark days when everyone was using a different icon for "share" and you never really knew what icon did what. The icons even changed across Android/iOS versions, and there was Microsoft in the corner tooting its own horn on Windows Phone.
I'm hardly tech illiterate, but the way apps use icons these days makes me almost go into "those darn kids" mode.
- deathanatos 6y ago> I remember those dark days when everyone was using a different icon for "share" and you never really knew what icon did what. Is that not… today? Android is "a node splitting into two nodes", OS X is "leave the box". Neither scream "share" to me, especially when there's no text accompanying the hieroglyph.
- ComputerGuru 6y agoMobile is such a stupidly confined platform for UX with its imprecise input constrained not only to boxes 1cm/1cm wide but also the lack of hover. They're crude approximations that fail to benefit from true human dexterity and simultaneously rob us of hover and other input signals that can be used to enrich the UX and show hints or provide context. And desktop UI designers scrambled over one another to throw out their rich and carefully designed UX paradigms to adopt a similar least common denominator for their user interfaces.
- puranjay 6y agoIt's still like that. But at least we've come to some consistency across versions. iOS 5 and 6 had different icons. Android's icon would change with every new version in the early years. There's no Windows Phone anymore.