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I find it amusing that downloads UI is still an issue, I don't mean just Google Chrome, but also in Android and iOS. I was making a stylized image-sharing tool
by Ciantic 3y ago
I find it amusing that downloads UI is still an issue, I don't mean just Google Chrome, but also in Android and iOS.
I was making a stylized image-sharing tool that allowed users to download the image or share it with an OS-sharing tool. But after testing with actual users we found that the "download image" button just confused the hell out of everyone. One comment stuck with me, when the user hit the download button the comment was: "it goes to that one strange place". They had no memorable way to access browser's downloads.
In the end, we used different methods for iOS and Android, it seemed that iOS users were happier to use "press and hold image" to get to the familiar context menu, and for Android users, the browser's sharing tool worked fine. But no download button for either of the browsers.
- afavour 3y agoFWIW I was in a similar situation to you a while back on a web project and discovered that users loved navigator.share(), which invokes the OS native share sheet you mentioned on both Android and iOS. Unfortunately it also does it on macOS and the share menu there is something people almost never use but oh well.