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I'm with Google on this one. Imagine if someone patented the checkbox/toggle button. Now imagine all the crazy ux/UI companies would have to invent to get aroun
by jinushaun 14y ago
I'm with Google on this one. Imagine if someone patented the checkbox/toggle button. Now imagine all the crazy ux/UI companies would have to invent to get around the patent. It's pure lunacy. I've seen this first hand, where the product development team is more focused on not violating software patents than designing the best possible user experience. It's "not invented here" syndrome to the n-th degree. If consumers already know how to interact with something a particular way, why are we trying to make them bend another backwards to do it another more awkward way.
- antidoh 14y ago"Imagine if someone patented the checkbox/toggle button." Do you think it's not? My assumption is that that specific thing is patented, and is either expired or the owners don't enforce it or don't know they own it, or, that there is a broader patent whose owner may eventually decide to enforce in the context of a checkbox or similar thing.