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This is not even software but somehow on/off switches are a challenge. When I was a kid I remember struggling to figure out how to use a power switch on an ext
by foxglacier 1y ago
This is not even software but somehow on/off switches are a challenge. When I was a kid I remember struggling to figure out how to use a power switch on an extension cord. You'd slide it one way and it revealed the word "on", and the other way revealed "off". But did that mean it was on when it said "on" or was "on" telling you to what moving the switch would do - which is how pause/play buttons on video players work today? 30 years later I got stuck with the same problem in my iPhone. Today they have green coloring to help but back then, I think it was more confusing. Computer monitors today are worse - you never know if it's blank because it's turned off (indicated by LED being on (or off) or a certain color) or no signal (indicated by LED being off (or on) or a different color).
- Animats 1y agoNote how this hostile feature tends to appear in places where you turn off ad tracking.
- SoftTalker 1y agoPause/Play still confuses me sometimes, so I think that not all apps do it the same. Is it showing the current state, or what will happen if I tap it? Just have two separate fucking buttons please. Same as on/off controls, they should have clear external labels, e.g.: Off |X | On So it's clear what moving the slider will do.
- layer8 1y agoIt’s even okay to have a single button, but don’t change its label and instead clearly indicate whether its active, for example by rendering it as depressed, assuming a consistent UI where the user knows how “depressed” looks like.