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On Safari (iPad), type something in the search bar. If you accidentally click outside of your keyboard it will deselect the bar and delete everything you typed.
by quirino 2y ago
On Safari (iPad), type something in the search bar. If you accidentally click outside of your keyboard it will deselect the bar and delete everything you typed.
On Spotify the three little dots to do some action to a song have too small of a hitbox. Press even the slightest bit under the button and it will start playing the song. You'd never click there to play the song.
When you consider the scale of these apps, there must be so much combined annoyance.
- dustingetz 2y agoorg chart has been shipped (excel labor cost model actually)
- andrepd 2y agoUI/UX standards in general are dogshit in most modern software. It's actually baffling how nobody bothers to do even the most basic polishing of their application as the OP. Like they note, clicking around for 10 or 20 minutes would reveal many imperfections, not to mention actually having testers and experiments and any semblance of a scientific design methodology.
- ibash 2y agoI believe it boils down to what we teach as “finished”. Is a feature finished when the code works? When the pull request is merged? Or when a feature works well? I also believe there’s a lack of care. The difference between a craftsman and anyone else is care.
- voidfunc 2y agoThe lack of care from the product managers filters down through engineering. Product managers only care if a feature is shipped, not it it is polished. More shit shipping means more personal gain.
- chii 2y agobut then why not keep going down the line, and say that the customers also doesnt care?
- voidfunc 2y agoThe problem is real the customer isn't the business that buys the software, it's the end user that is frustrated and tired of the shitty UI but is powerless to effect any kind of change because their management chain and execs don't give a fuck either.
- sonofhans 2y agoI believe that the iPad behavior you describe is intentional. I’m not sure I’m right here, and there are tradeoffs. I get frustrated with it too. But I think Apple is going for clarity, lack of ambiguity. If your text remained in place but the control were not focused, what would that control then indicate? In Safari now it _always_ indicates (a) the current page, or (b) your current typing. To do otherwise would be to create a third state: “Used to be typing.” Then it would no longer unambiguously indicate the current state.
- layer8 2y agoThis is only tangentially related, but the Safari address bar already does not always indicate the current state, specifically when pages take time loading and when going back and forth in history. There is some kind of broken synchronization between page display and address bar, in conjunction with page loading timeouts. That being said, I would be fine with an "address bar has been edited but not commited yet" state. It's how most other (desktop?) browsers work and it's not an issue.
- thelastparadise 2y agoYep it's just pure jank. Even Apple (especially post-Jobs) can produce jank.
- aag 2y agoI've never understood the claim that Apple's UIs are better than others'. That wasn't true while Jobs was around, and it isn't true now. Apple Photos, for example, loses keystrokes every time I create a new album. That's been true for years. And Time Machine randomly drops files from backups. Linux isn't perfect, but my daily experience using it has been far superior for years.
- worstspotgain 2y agoWell the Time Machine comparison doesn't really belong in a laundry list, it's basically Apple's greatest unmitigated disaster ever.
- yen223 2y agoReading this on Safari on my iPad, the favicon for this tab is the Youtube logo. I genuinely have no idea how this bug came about, but it's been like that for months now.
- dmd 2y agoSafari is really, really bad when it comes to everything around favicons. The biggest annoyance being it doesn’t accept updates, so things like mail status favicons don’t work.
- emmelaich 2y agoOn the Tesla screen, parked view you can tap the frunk and trunk buttons to open them. If you miss them by even a slight amount, the view does this annoying animation which hides the frunk and trunk butttons for about a second. You have to wait for the animation to stop before trying again. So damn annoying.
- brontitall 2y agoOMG yes! That appeared in the somewhat recent UI revamp and I’m so tired of mashing at that button. Not only is it unavailable for what feels like more than a second, but now it’s in a different place