Ode to the M1 - Hackdot

Re:Ode to the M1 by Y-bar on Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:19AM (#37108482)

Strong disagree with your assumption. I __hate__ unified controls across devices. When I am on an iOS device I want iOS controls, not the same as I have on Windows, and on Windows I want Windows controls, not something kind of like Mac OS. And I am 100% certain pretty much every consumer would actually agree if they were given the opportunity and knowledge about the situation, and the "unified" look is just something developers like me lie to ourselves about since it is easier to do it with Electron and not spend time and energy to do a properly good user experience.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by satvikpendem on Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:24AM (#37108512)

Well I can tell you having doing user interviews about precisely this topic for our teams that users really don't care about device specific controls and we've found that it's really devs that care a lot about it, and even then it's been specifically Apple users. Windows or Linux users didn't care as much, although Linux users cared a bit more than Windows users. Most of our interviewees said they either don't care or prefer unified controls per app.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by Y-bar on Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:39AM (#37108598)

I guess you limit your context to your own application and not the entire computing device and therefore you get flawed results.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by satvikpendem on Sunday August 13, 2023 @06:41AM (#37108611)

No, we never asked them about our own application specifically, it was about what they preferred generally across all of their devices. So, no flaws here. You may just be projecting your own bias for OS specific controls onto the general populace.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by LtWorf on Sunday August 13, 2023 @09:00AM (#37109600)

I highly doubt your research was so perfect, since it seems it wasn't even peer reviewed and published, so that conveniently nobody can point out methodology flaws.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by satvikpendem on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:14PM (#37111265)

I never said it was some peer reviewed study, just that we did it for our team to figure out how to lay out the UX, that doesn't mean it's not statistically and methodologically valid. It seems you are also trying to project your biases on top of my comment so as to question any sort of research that we conducted.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by LtWorf on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:37PM (#37114793)

Yeah because it doesn't really match with the state of the art.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by satvikpendem on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:40PM (#37114813)

What is the state of the art then? Where are your peer reviewed studies on this topic?

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