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If you swipe left on the "Me" button at the bottom of the iPhone app, it brings up an account selection screen. That seems like a mind-boggling UI decision to m
by tomkarlo 15y ago
If you swipe left on the "Me" button at the bottom of the iPhone app, it brings up an account selection screen. That seems like a mind-boggling UI decision to me - a swipeable button with no affordance for the swipe and no indication of why it reacted differently to a swipe than a press.
Update: apparently if you swipe up, it shows you DMs. So once you touch that button, you're probably going to some screen, even if you don't want to.
I can imagine the product meeting now: "You're getting rid of the DM icon?" "Yeah, but we'll figure out a way users can get to it directly."
- king_magic 15y agoI almost didn't believe you about swipe-left-on-Me. I... just don't understand. What could have possibly made them think that was a good idea? I would have never figured that out in a million years. Yes, it's true that under "Me" is a "Switch Accounts" button that does the exact same thing, and that's fine, but the idea of implementing swipe-left-on-Me seems to go completely against Apple's HIG and the entire notion of intuitively discovering functionality.
- lukeholder 15y agoI honestly believe it is a marketing technique. Look at the number of tweets announcing the secret 'pro-tip' it something that pro twitter users can use and feel special (because they use DM /swipe up/ and have multiple accounts. The rest of the users aren't hardcore and dont care about getting to those things in 2 taps.
- Hrothgar15 15y agoYou can swipe left from Me across the tab bar which flips the view over. Makes perfect sense if you think about it.
- tomkarlo 15y agoAt least on iOS there's nothing to imply that's a tab bar, and certainly no visual affordance of that action. Maybe you're on Android - I'm hearing comments from Android that make it sound like the UI is more "tabby" on that version.