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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by JKCalhoun on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:47PM (#32966816)
I suspect that designers are tasked with too many features on too small of a device. On a desktop with a mouse + keyboard there is a potential for so many shortcuts ... you have to get much more creative on a touch-only device.

I don't endorse it however. I think pop-up menus (even the much maligned hamburger) are at least a way to make many more features discoverable. I dislike "gestures".

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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by Gigachad on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:56PM (#32966885)
I think this constraint actually created some of the best UI ever. Desktop designers had gotten lazy and just stacked tool bar over tool bar and then sidebars too with hundreds of icons everywhere.

Was it really more discoverable to have the icon always on screen but embedded among so many other useless icons?

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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by int_19h on Sunday September 25, 2022 @08:36PM (#32978028)
Drop-down menus with more or less standard categories were for discoverability. Toolbars were always meant for "quick access", representing the most common - and, usually, user-configurable, subset of commands in the menus.
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