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"The interface constantly sorts your apps according to how recently you’ve used them. This let me navigate my phone very efficiently, often saving me from getti
by VLM 12y ago
"The interface constantly sorts your apps according to how recently you’ve used them. This let me navigate my phone very efficiently, often saving me from getting lost in a sea of apps"
How does this work as a UI? I'm not a UI guy but I know a bad fad when I see one. Superficially, a big scrollable 2-d grid in alphabetical order makes life pretty easy as long as marketing doesn't rename apps too often. A random 1-d line sounds really hard to use.
As a use case example, I'm about to press the "add comment" button thats always aligned with the left and bottom edge of this bright background textbox, its very easy to find, repeatable (which is comforting and convenient) and fairly intuitive. Yet if you took every window decoration widget on my entire desktop and put them on a rotating ribbon in random order, it would probably take 5 minutes, every time I interact with it, to find and click "add comment".
I've seen this fad UI trend on other mobile apps, I find it a huge PITA and impediment to my enjoyment of the afflicted apps. 5 seconds of "oh hey, cool, flicks finger" followed by an eternity of "this sucks"