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That's a good point—that's probably the closest a file manager has come to being truly usable by most folks. Relatedly, IMO iOS took a huge step backwards in U
by handrous 5y ago
That's a good point—that's probably the closest a file manager has come to being truly usable by most folks.
Relatedly, IMO iOS took a huge step backwards in UX when iOS7 moved away from a highly spatial interaction metaphor for practically the entire OS—by which I don't mean the skeuomorphism, exactly, but things like folders sliding the screen "open" when tapped, so that they had a sense of physical location within the main screen. Or "slide to unlock" looking like a physical slider so you didn't even need to read it to know what to do. The loss of the security blanket that was the physical (or at least faux-physical) home button has hurt it, too.
- bluGill 5y agoIt was great until you had a disk shared between the large monitors at school and the tiny one you had at home. So long as all screens are the same sized and layed out the same it worked good. However any form of using two different computers and the whole thing started to fall apart. Throw in multiple monitors and it isn't possible to do this usefully. It also only worked well when you only had a few files in any folder. If you have 100 files that are related in one folder and you can't find anything without sorting it alphabetically. Depending on how your brain organizes things this might not matter.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoI think the concept may just need some slight modification to work in more modern cases like this. Namely, by making the interface zoomable.