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"That is a problem if you’re a dishonest designer. After all, how do you tell your client that you’ve just reinvented the wheel? You can’t just use boring old b
by datadrivenangel 3y ago
"That is a problem if you’re a dishonest designer. After all, how do you tell your client that you’ve just reinvented the wheel? You can’t just use boring old buttons in your shiny new product."
The core problem is that people have trouble differentiating between the desire to improve something and the desire to change something.
- smallmancontrov 3y agoAlso the desire to copy vs innovate. How many "1 button + proprietary dialect of morse code" monstrosities happened because someone heard Johnny Ive brag about reducing the number of buttons on the apple remote?
- mnky9800n 3y agoi used an apple remote recently in an airbnb, i don't know what generation, but it was an atrocious experience. Why would buttons also be a touch interface that perform the same function as the underlying buttons? It was very confusing.
- acuozzo 3y ago> Why would buttons also be a touch interface that perform the same function as the underlying buttons? Scrolling
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- sdwr 3y agoWhat about flipping it on its head? The problem with being a designer is you want people to notice your buttons. You can't just let them disappear into the background. 20 years ago, the complaints were that everything was dumbed down, and the "power users" were being hung out to dry. Well, now everyone is a power user. The average iOS user has at least 5 years experience with the UI. People don't need as much hand-holding.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoAhem. I'm old enough to have a hands-on experience with DOS and Win3.1. When someone hands me their iPhone (eg to show something some page in Safari or asking for help with something) I struggle to navigate anywhere. I have almost none iOS experience, because I never had iPhone. And new users (like kids born after iPhone 1, lol) have zero experience with iOS too.
- zilti 3y agolol, no, even less people are power users now than 20 years ago.
- phil9909 3y agoI guess that dependends on your definition of a power user. Some might see someone spending multiple hours a day with a given software sufficient to be called a "power user". If I had to make up a definition right now, I'd go for something like: Someone who invests a small(er) amount of time to e.g. configure the software to their needs or learns some keyboard shortcuts knowing it will save them a large(r) amount of time in the long run, by tiny savings spread over weeks (or decades). It's more about the mindset. With that definition it becomes clear why vi is often considered "power user only". With the frequency of product redesigns the commercial software sees, I can understand why many people hesitante to invest upfront.
- antisthenes 3y agoA problem that extends into vast political ideologies as well, and just about any sphere of human activity.