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Lot of the advice in the article would fail in some situations like the one you point out. Unless the quantity is less than 5, tap to increase doesn't make sen
by mkagenius 11y ago
Lot of the advice in the article would fail in some situations like the one you point out.
Unless the quantity is less than 5, tap to increase doesn't make sense.
Also, the slider wouldn't work in case you are trying to choose from an even average sized list on "min" or "max" side. There are only so many pixels in portrait mode and my big thumb - how can you expect it to be so precise. While in case of the dropdown in almost 2 scrolls i can get to the exact number by varying the speed of scroll, like binary search.
Some of the points are correct though, i don't see many people making those mistakes.
- LoSboccacc 11y agomost of the page doesn't make sense. in at least every sample of 'good pattern' there is also an implicit dropdown, whether airport name autocompletion, calendar, something about being in sale and pre market in the search filters... the whole page basically contradicts itself. yes the bad UI has a fugly stile sheet. that doesn't make the good UI any functionally better, especially because you can still see a shitton of places where a drop down is essential. the only real improvement is that the date picker is one dropdown instead of three, but I don't think that warrants a whole blog page XD
- cubancigar11 11y agoThis happens to me on some online shopping websites. When I search for some generic term, I am shown a slider between minimum and maximum where minimum is so often 0 and maximum is 10^5, while I am interested in something, say, between 500 to 1500.