Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)

Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by artimaeis on Monday December 23, 2019 @08:55AM (#21863579)

> "Saving a photo from iMessage"

I feel like I see the root of this problem everywhere in "card"-based UIs. The share button opens a "card" on top and you can move the card up in the view. There should definitely be some consideration for how to represent that there's more "card" outside of your screen.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by ascagnel_ on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:23AM (#21863720)

The simple solution is to design the card so that, at all display layouts, the last visible item is cut off -- it goes a long way toward saying "there's more in this list".

The new share sheet in iOS/iPadOS 13 is not great -- the two rows of horizontal scrolls (one for contacts, the other for apps) was much more discoverable.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by mrguyorama on Monday December 23, 2019 @11:37AM (#21864777)

Or, you know, a simple scrollbar always worked

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by stetrain on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:35AM (#21864219)

I believe we came up with something for this in the 70s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrollbar

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