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Re:Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset pro... by xp84 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:04AM (#36582100)
How about iOS Settings? There are, counting now, 8 sections of settings before the ninth which is “all third-party apps alphabetically” (that last one is mainly where you can grant/deny a short list of entitlements for those such as location, cell data, etc.)

Those 9 sections are all unlabeled for some insane reason (I suppose maybe this type of plain table view thing has never had a UI element to make headings?), so even the intent of the designer is unknown. If you want a certain setting, you just have to keep scrolling. There is Search in here, though the search is mediocre and it’s still hard to find things.

Oh, and Settings has a junk drawer too called General, which seems to mostly mean “someone was forced to pull 15 or so items into a subfolder, and it also uses the “random groups without headings” method of organization.

All of this seems low-effort and like the designers didn’t learn even basic lessons from 40 years of GUI design (or like the ones calling the shots are fine art majors more concerned with words like “uncluttered” and “elegant” than “usability” and “discoverable.”

Re:Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset pro... by divbzero on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:15AM (#36582495)
Navigation for iOS app settings has never made sense to me. On macOS, Preferences… in the menu or ⌘, keyboard shortcut opens app settings from any app. On iOS, it’s generally not possible to open app settings from the app: instead, you have to exit out to home screen, open global Settings, and scroll down all the way.