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"Learned behaviour" works for Google products for exactly as long as they decide to keep the current version of the interface :) I feel like I usually get a cou
by trog 6y ago
"Learned behaviour" works for Google products for exactly as long as they decide to keep the current version of the interface :) I feel like I usually get a couple years out of it, just enough to build up the muscle memory, then there's some small but significant change that renders it useless.
Most recent example for me: I put my Pixel 3 on Aeroplane Mode when I go to bed. Until the most recent update (10?), I could swipe down from top of screen and I'd get three rows of icons. I'd hit Aeroplane mode, which was in its default position (on my device at least) in the third & bottom row in the centre.
After the update, they reduced the size of the icon grid to only two rows. To get to the Aeroplane Mode icon, I suddenly had to do an additional swipe to the side to get to the next screen.
You can re-arrange the icons on this panel, which I did, but even now a month or two after I still occasionally reflexively reach for the old position. Less and less, of course, but still, the whole thing was annoying.
Not a huge deal, but I feel like this process happens to me in almost every Google application. Not just Google, of course - I see this more and more in a lot of software - the value of learned behaviour is not accorded the priority I think it needs.