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Not to be partisan, or anything. The thing that stood out the most for me was slide-up to unlock, that's been a Windows thing since they began their redesign w
by vxNsr 13y ago
Not to be partisan, or anything.
The thing that stood out the most for me was slide-up to unlock, that's been a Windows thing since they began their redesign with WP (from WinMobile).
Still I think that somehow Apple did a better job with the flat UI, I'm currently using Windows 8 (by choice) and my phone is a Lumia 521 (again by choice), and I always feel that something is off with the WP/W8 buttons, they just seem too flat or too... just off -- I can't explain it but I get this weird feeling everytime I see them, the buttons and controls just don't feel polished enough.
When I first installed W8 on my laptop, I thought it might be because it's a beta product and not finished, then when they shipped those icons, I thought it was just my screen (my laptop is a four year old dell inspiron that shipped with vista, incidentally it runs W8 better than it did W7, and better than vista before that), but now that I have a new smartphone the niggling is justified -- there is something odd about the buttons, especially when compared to the new iOS7.
- kennywinker 13y agoIrony: it only looks like it's slide up to unlock. It's actually slide sideways. My twitter stream right now is full of people pointing out how deeply confusing that little arrow at the bottom of the screen is. See it in action: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/06/slide-to-unlock-appadvice-goes-hands-on-with-ios-7s-new-lock-screen http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/06/slide-to-unlock-appadvice...
- cheald 13y agoThis is something that really, desperately confuses me. Apple is supposedly the king of intuitive design, and yet here, you have literally the first interface people will see on the phone, with an interaction model which is completely impossible to intuit, and only works for people who are already trained in how to complete the action. I get the desire to eliminate depth, but that little slide gutter and right-pointing arrow tell you exactly what you need to know. The iOS7 UI instructs you to do the wrong thing!
- sosuke 13y agoThe text slide to unlock has a shine animation that moves from left to right.
- cheald 13y agoI get that, but I think it's very difficult to make an argument that given a new user, it would be interpreted as an interaction cue rather than just visual polish. The presence of the up arrow is actively misleading, from a UX perspective. It's like having a slide toggle that you have to double tap to activate!
- scott_s 13y agoThe up arrow is to indicate sliding up - but for the control center, not to unlock. I agree that a new user may be surprised. But having seen all three work once - slide left-to-right to unlock, down for notifications, up for control - it makes sense to me.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoiPhoneOS/iOS has been around for 6 years. 600 million devices have been sold that all have the same ‘slide to unlock’ mechanism. Now that the majority of phones being sold are smartphones, Apple must’ve felt that it’s OK to remove some of the training wheels. Whether that’s wise remains to be seen. Microsoft finally removed the ‘Start’ button from Windows, but that has been met with quite some resistance, from new and experienced users alike. Few people read user manuals, which Apple knows. It doesn’t even ship a physical user manual with their iOS products (just a thin quickstart guide). There are in-depth user manuals available for download[1], but the percentage of iPhone owners who read it must be negligible. I often meet iOS users who don’t know that double-tap on the Home button brings up the app switcher. As the OSes on these mobile devices become more capable over time (and the interaction model grows more complicated), users may need to start treating them as computers that require learning beyond trial and error. [1] http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iphone_user_guide.pdf http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iphone_user_guide.pdf
- drivebyacct2 13y agoWhat in the ever loving hell is that arrow for then? edit: I guess it seems obvious now...
- benaiah 13y agoInteresting - the animation for the unlocking is somewhat similar to the animation when swiping between pages in the app list on Android Jellybean (I'm not criticizing the copying, just noting the similarity). Given the focus on layers in the rest of the design (the control panel and notifications center, for example) I would have thought the unlock screen would slide off like a layer, as well (since they are using the visual metaphor of dragging the whole unlock screen, rather than sliding a specific unlock element, as in previous version of iOS). Any thoughts as to why they did that differently? Am I just totally off base?
- zmmmmm 13y agoParticularly ironic since Apple made such a big deal out of their slide to unlock patent, being a competitive advantage etc. and specifically tied to moving something from two explicit points along a predefined path. Now after all that fuss they just threw it away and copied their competitors?
- _pmf_ 13y ago> Now after all that fuss they just threw it away and copied their competitors? No, you're not using the right lingo. If it's Apple, they do not throw away; they "evolve". They also do not copy, they "refine the experience".
- noginn 13y agoMy two year old daughter figured out how to unlock my iPhone by sliding her thumb across the slider. Interested to see how she'll find the iOS 7 interface. Toddler usability testing :)
- marpstar 13y agoMy son, also two years old, can unlock iOS6. He cannot, however, unlock my Galaxy S3, which offers no visual "unlock" slider. It's insane how well a two-year-old can interact with touch devices.
- Pxtl 13y agoMy 2 year old did it on my winphone, which uses a full-screen slide to unlock.
- soundoflight 13y agoActually, I think Zune HD was the first Microsoft product with the slide up to unlock. (Obviously close enough)