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> Mr. Brichter was the first developer to create or help popularize app features such as pulling on a touch screen to refresh a page, panels that slide out from
by Noughmad 14y ago
> Mr. Brichter was the first developer to create or help popularize app features such as pulling on a touch screen to refresh a page, panels that slide out from the side of a screen and the "cell swipe," which is swiping to uncover a list of hidden buttons.
Actually, all of these three examples seem bad to me. I guess such hidden features make sense on an iPhone with small screen and one button, but there always has to be some indication that additional buttons are there. Conformng Android apps have a menu button, either hardware or on-screen, and you can always be sure to find functionality there. I really don't want to have to swipe around to find expected features.
- adrianhoward 14y agoWell - the drag-down to refresh feature is discoverable. It's what you naturally do to "scroll up" - and when you're at the top of the list the same gesture turns into "refresh". It's one of the ones that don't need to be taught when I've done user testing.