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> Clearly a flawed conclusion. For the result of their experiment they deduced what they wanted it to say. you know how when you navigate google drive on the w

> Clearly a flawed conclusion. For the result of their experiment they deduced what they wanted it to say. you know how when you navigate google drive on the web you have to double-click. like, what, a website, where you double click links to navigate? the internal study that justified that was 12 people; 6 of whom either immediately tried to double click (2 IIRC) or eventually tried to double click (4 IIRC). so, 50% didn't shit a brick when they were presented with a broken website interaction, so it was greenlit. source: I was at google when this happened and I argued with the pm's when this happened.

donmcronald 5y ago
Do you double click actual (hyper)links to navigate or folders? Because in the context of a file manager I think single click to select and double click to navigate is the only sane approach. How do you multi-select with something like a shift-click if single clicks navigate you away from the current page. Single click to navigate in a file manager is what got us those laughably inefficient interfaces where you have check boxes beside every item and no reasonable way to multi-select. Maybe those 6 people immediately double clicked because it's the only non-stupid way of doing it?
- V-eHGsd_ 5y ago
  > Do you double click actual ... are you familiar with google drive? confusingly enough, in the google docs "browser", which is some limited interface to some subset of google drive, a single click is all that's needed to open a doc. but in google drive, opening the same doc takes two clicks. > and no reasonable way to multi-select. fwiw, I have absolutely no problem multi-selecting in google photos; another google-joint with single-click to open/interact/etc. > Maybe those 6 people immediately double clicked as I said, only two people immediately double clicked.

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> Clearly a flawed conclusion. For the result of their experiment they deduced what they wanted it to say. you know how when you navigate google drive on the w

by V-eHGsd_ 5y ago

donmcronald 5y ago
Do you double click actual (hyper)links to navigate or folders? Because in the context of a file manager I think single click to select and double click to navigate is the only sane approach. How do you multi-select with something like a shift-click if single clicks navigate you away from the current page. Single click to navigate in a file manager is what got us those laughably inefficient interfaces where you have check boxes beside every item and no reasonable way to multi-select. Maybe those 6 people immediately double clicked because it's the only non-stupid way of doing it?
- V-eHGsd_ 5y ago
  > Do you double click actual ... are you familiar with google drive? confusingly enough, in the google docs "browser", which is some limited interface to some subset of google drive, a single click is all that's needed to open a doc. but in google drive, opening the same doc takes two clicks. > and no reasonable way to multi-select. fwiw, I have absolutely no problem multi-selecting in google photos; another google-joint with single-click to open/interact/etc. > Maybe those 6 people immediately double clicked as I said, only two people immediately double clicked.