Re:Tell HN: You can see your vouched and flagged items
by modeless on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @01:47AM
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While click targets could be bigger, I very much appreciate the information density and vastly prefer HN's mobile design to any other mobile-"friendly" design for a forum I've used.
When designing UIs, an alternative to reducing misclicks is making undo easier. HN is already doing pretty well in this regard. Undo is easy; the biggest problem is that you might sometimes not realize you've performed an action. The only indication that you've flagged a story is that the word flag changes to unflag. If there was a more visible change, like changing the color of the story to red, adding strikethrough, and/or maybe a (short!) animation, that would go a long way toward mitigating the problem of unintentional flagging without requiring a big change in the design to increase the size of everything, reducing information density.
When designing UIs, an alternative to reducing misclicks is making undo easier. HN is already doing pretty well in this regard. Undo is easy; the biggest problem is that you might sometimes not realize you've performed an action. The only indication that you've flagged a story is that the word flag changes to unflag. If there was a more visible change, like changing the color of the story to red, adding strikethrough, and/or maybe a (short!) animation, that would go a long way toward mitigating the problem of unintentional flagging without requiring a big change in the design to increase the size of everything, reducing information density.