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iOS 7.1 Real-time Design Reactions
- wpeterson 13y agoHi, I'm an engineer building Polar Polls. This is an example of one of our realtime poll results dashboards. We've built some cool tools for building beautiful, photo polls and the ability to embed them anywhere on the web. http://polarb.com/ http://polarb.com/
- MBCook 13y agoI understand that you want me to know that people are voting right now, but the yellow flashes are incredibly distracting and made trying to view all the poll results very difficult.
- sdrothrock 13y agoI agree. I was looking at the site trying to figure out what was going on and the yellow flashes just kept grabbing my attention.
- takeda64 13y agoBy using cursor key for voting you dramatically decreased usability, for example I no longer can use Platform Key (Win/Command) key + left arrow to go back to previous page.
- kevincrane 13y agoNormally I'd agree with you (e.g. I hate Blogspot because they hijack Alt-Left for back also), but in this case I actually liked the arrow keys for voting because they were quick and simple. I voted on probably ~5 screens in just a few seconds and felt really smooth.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoWhy not do both: support cursor keys for voting, but leave meta+ key events alone?
- villek 13y agoIt's nice to see people are actively voting, but I'm way more interested in the data than the too rapidly flashing yellow. Just changing the numbers and flashing the font bold (or some other effect on only the number) when new votes come in should be sufficient to make it clear the number are updated realtime. But I'm no designer so what do I know ;)
- alphakappa 13y agoThis was not a pleasant experience. Half my screen (horizontally) was taken up by a blank UI element, while the actual screenshots were scrunched together on the right. It took me a while to realize that they were two screenshots next to each other. Others have mentioned the flashing UI elements - if you wanted to show that things were updating in real time, you could've added the highlight to the votes themselves, instead of flashing a big rectangular area. Also, you are biasing voters by telling them that one is 'old' while the other is 'new'. Show two screenshots (hopefully, larger than the tiny ones you have right now), in some random orders, and let people vote without bias.
- poolpool 13y agoWhich proves that history repeats itself. Apple goes overboard with its initial design and pulls back in places with subsequent point releases. Everyone in 5 years forgets that their phone was allegedly unusable!!! for a matter of months.
- r00fus 13y agoSorry, it's hardly been unusable. I've had almost zero issues with iOS 7.0 - most of my gripes are my dislike of the new icons and bad discoverability (e.g.: casting a song to airplay /bluetooth speaker), but none of that made the phone unusable. The control center by itself makes iOS7 better than iOS6.
- calbear81 13y agoSame here, running on a 4S since release and haven't had any crashes or stability issues. The only thing I had to change was the "bold text" option since I found some of the text too light for my liking and that got fixed in 7.1.
- frou_dh 13y agoI just wish the forest that is Settings was searchable. One example being to find all the similar "Use Mobile Data" toggles. It's odd that it isn't searchable since OS X's analogous System Preferences has had its cool search with the fading light graphic for many years.
- r00fus 13y agoI hear ya - this is one area where Spotlight on Mac OSX Tiger (10.4 - almost a decade ago) really innovated - I could tell my folks to "use the magnifying glass on the top right corner and type 'mouse'". The same on XP could be a nightmare depending on how it was setup. Apple definitely should have kept the settings in the search in iOS. Right now it's sad I have to search google on how to find some of the settings on the iPhone.
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- mbell 13y agoI would think you'd get a ton of bias by having the options labeled (particularly using words like 'old' and 'new') and always having the options in the same order, 7.1 on the right.
- r00fus 13y agoThat said, de-biasing it by making it randomly switch sides would likely cause confusion. "Old" vs. "New" could probably be reworded pretty easily though to be more neutral yet still descriptive.
- bradleyland 13y agoConfusion about what? If your goal is to know which design people prefer (independently of generation), there is a necessary amount of confusion required with regard to which is new and which is old. Even if you were to remove the labels, users familiar with the platform will still be biased. There is something called the mere-exposure effect, which dictates that the mere exposure to a thing will cause preference toward said thing. Because of this aspect of human preference, the deck is naturally stacked against "new" things.
- furyofantares 13y agoI really don't think first impressions from a screenshot viewed on the web is going to be very accurate anyway
- Edd314159 13y agoThe only iOS 7.1 option that seems to be losing is the call screen. Of course the old one looks better with the full-screen photo, but how many people have good enough photos of their contacts to make that consistently look good in everyday use?
- r00fus 13y agoIt's not just the photo. It's the vastly increased hit area for answering. I have photos for all the people I'm close to.
- CamperBob2 13y agoI can't imagine their motivation for reducing the size of buttons like that. Other than the smaller buttons, 7.1 actually looks pretty good.
- gress 13y agoAccidentally answering a call is embarrassing.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoAndroids 'drag from A to B' is a godsend in this regard.
- gress 13y agoHaving to use two hands to answer a call is annoying.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoWhere's this two-hands requirement coming from?
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- underyx 13y agoWhy are there questions asking if people prefer having [feature] or not having [feature]? And more importantly, why are people voting for the latter one?
- tonylemesmer 13y agoThe flashing is distracting. Quite irritating actually
- vacri 13y agoI like it. It makes the page seem 'alive', though I guess they should add a toggle button to turn it off for those who have trouble with it.
- bobbles 13y agoOne thing that concerns me from a 'normal user' point of view is that the new Buy Album button appears right next to the price for the individual song. For some users it may appear like you are choosing 'buy album' for $1.29 http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/itunes-radio-buy-album-ios-7-1-beta-5.jpg http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/itunes...
- coin 13y ago"Dramatically increase participation and time spent on your sites or apps with Polar." With pinchzoom disabled, I just want to leave this site. -1
- jscheel 13y agoThe tiny avatar is terrible. I want to quickly see who is calling. Facial recognition is the absolute best way for that to happen.
- colmvp 13y agoOn top of that it looked beautiful.