I would have been much more impressive to hear something like, "we tested it in usability studies and found users like the icons moving around while they are trying to press them and are able to select apps more efficiently and with greater satisfaction." Or whatever justification you think it has for the user. Instead it sounds like an implementation justification, which is indeed, meaningless to users.
On Nov 20, 11:09 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Lance Nanek <lna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One annoying thing about copying iPhone is that the copiers often get > > it wrong. The launcher on the Nexus One has an attempt at elastic > > scrolling, but it does the bounce thing even when you haven't gotten > > to the end of the app list. So the darn thing is constantly bouncing > > even when I'm trying to press an app after a scroll in the middle of > > the list. > > That isn't trying to copy the iPhone, it is just a different type of > physics. > > > Feedback when you are at the end and a less abrupt stop when you get > > there is good. Stupid, meaningless, annoying effects that get in the > > way of using the interface are bad. If whoever had implemented it on > > the Nexus One had started from some need, like needing more user > > feedback, I don't think they would have mixed the two up. > > The physics behind that particular UI is that the list isn't free-moving, > but has "slots" at each place where full icons are on-screen. As a fling > slows down, you will see the slots impacting the physics until it finally > falls down into the final slot. > > So okay, fine, you don't like it, and you are welcome to your opinion, but > it isn't a copy, and it isn't meaningless. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
