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Life is not smoking guns, objective truths, or us and thems. I do find it amusing how disorganized the app has become, and that has become my favorite example.
by n42 1y ago
Life is not smoking guns, objective truths, or us and thems.
I do find it amusing how disorganized the app has become, and that has become my favorite example.
I find it even more amusing that you think citing search as a primary UI path is your “smoking gun” of good information hierarchy and interface design.
- BoorishBears 1y agoIt's just a bad example. Sorry you're upset I called it out. The original settings app had a nondescript "General" label for this same setting: neither tells me to expect a default browser setting. Overall the old UI was just the current UI with lower information density.
- TlrSwftFrPres 1y ago> A setting's placement in the menu hierarchy "is a bad example" of the Settings app's being bad because search is available. > Search is always available while the app is open, across all menus and functions. > Therefore no placement or layout can be singled out as better or worse in the Settings app. All possible hierarchies or arrangements are equal. > I unroll my Apple UX Researcher Toolkit (contents: blindfold, dart, dartboard, crack pipe), and use it to make my decision: I put the dropdown 3 levels deep under Touch ID, safe in the knowledge that I cannot be criticized, because we've also included a search bar. It's just bad thinking. Sorry if you're upset I've called it out.