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Next you’ll be complaining that the taps in your house don’t have a label telling you that they need to be twisted and in what direction. Phones aren’t 747’s,
by jama211 1y ago
Next you’ll be complaining that the taps in your house don’t have a label telling you that they need to be twisted and in what direction.
Phones aren’t 747’s, and guess what every normal person that goes into an airplane cockpit who isn’t a pilot is so overwhelmed by all the controls they wouldn’t know what anything did.
Interface designers know what they’re doing. They know what’s intuitive and what isn’t, and they’ve refined down to an art how to contain a complicated feature set in a relatively simple form factor.
The irony of people here with no design training that they could do a better job than any “so called designer” shows incredible levels of egotism and disrespect to a mature field of study.
Also demonstrably, people use their phones really quite well with very little training, that’s a modern miracle.
Stop shaking your fist at a cloud.
- userbinator 1y agoInterface designers know what they’re doing. They know what’s intuitive and what isn’t No they don't. The article refutes your points entirely, as does everyone else here who has been confounded by puzzling interfaces.
- jama211 1y agoIt doesn’t refute anything, it complains bitterly and states things are problems that demonstrably aren’t. You’re figuratively pointing at the sky and stomping your foot and saying “it’s not blue it’s green”. “I’m smarter than every designer” is such a common programmer trope at this point that it’s hilarious. Speaking as a developer myself.
- Mesopropithecus 1y ago"They know what’s intuitive and what isn’t" ... and then they ignore it? It triggers me when someone calls hidden swipe gestures intuitive. It's the opposite of affordance, which these designers should be familiar with if they are worth their salaries.
- jama211 1y agoThey don’t ignore it, they’re weighing up the pros and cons properly, something you don’t seem to want to do in good faith.
- dodomodo 1y agoI don't think I can do better, I just feel betrayed,
- jama211 1y agoYeah, how dare people try their best to make decent interfaces and inevitably fail to please everyone. Ultimate betrayal. But hey, at least you have more humility than most here.