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That popup annoys me, because I never hit the button to leave a call by accident. It used to annoy me even more because there was a time last year when it was i
by chrismorgan 6y ago
That popup annoys me, because I never hit the button to leave a call by accident. It used to annoy me even more because there was a time last year when it was impossible to leave a call by keyboard only on Windows, because all methods of normally closing the window would trigger this popup, but you couldn’t submit that popup by keyboard. Now at least I can Alt+Q Enter or something like that.
(I confess that the first time I encountered this I opened Task Manager and found and killed a Zoom.exe process all by keyboard, just on principle. That was when I discovered that Zoom has two processes so that the main one can restart the call if the call process crashes!)
But you know one potential factor for my never hitting it by accident? They use text labels (“Leave Call” / “End Call”) rather than an icon. Much easier to get right.
- breeny592 6y agoIt feels like one of those things where the context of the meeting/call should be taken in: was the scheduled time of this call for an hour and you've left 10 minutes in, maybe a confirmation dialog is more useful than when you've decided to leave within a few minutes of the finish time. Doesn't cover all the edge cases etc., but just observing that "the right UX" is super contextual and not a one size fits all thing.
- kybernetikos 6y agoWhether taking that context into account is a good idea is very debateable. The more contextually 'intelligent' a system is, the harder it is for the user to model it, and ease of user modelling is often more important than reducing the number of interactions need to complete a task. In this particular case, it wouldn't be possible to know if your keyboard sequence that quits a call would feature an unnecessary enter at the end or not.