{"id":27016,"date":"2019-10-22T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27016"},"modified":"2019-11-06T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:43:10","slug":"perfectly-cropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/perfectly-cropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectly Cropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Why didn’t she know there were options further down the share sheet? Because she’s using an iPhone 8, which happens to be just the right height to perfectly crop the share sheet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With invisible scroll bars<\/a>, this sort of thing can happen with web pages and Mac apps, as well.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2019-10-25): See also: Hacker News<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

Ask Adam<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is a perfect examination of a huge issue in Apple’s UI design direction. Almost every day I need to reassure novice users that it’s not their fault they don’t know how to work their devices. So many critical features have become completely undiscoverable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

In the early era of GUI design, we celebrated affordances. Any view that was scrollable was very clearly scrollable. We, as an industry, got away from that as the basic concepts of using a GUI became part of daily life for everyone. In the post-iOS 7 era, though, Apple seems outright opposed to affordances. […] Just by looking at it, there’s no reason to think there’s more. But “just by looking at it” is the way user interfaces should<\/em> be designed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Edward Morbius<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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But no, take a tablet, add keyboard, give it a 9-10 inch (~20 cm) screen, and take away every last flipping goddamned means developed over 45 years of graphical user interface design for flipping telling where you are in a document and efficiently going elsewhere.<\/p>\n

This. Is. Not. Progress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2019-11-01): See also: Evolution of the Scrollbar<\/a> (via Timo Perfitt<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

Update (2019-11-06): See also: Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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