Users expected multitouch to be impossible. Users still expect multitasking to fail. It is intuitive if it sucks, users expect it to suck. Intuitive does not mean good. Intuitive today is not the same as intuitive last year or next year.
Apple had to explain a great deal to users. Now that they have done that we have to explain to the users why Apple was wrong. The user's intuition is, unfortunately, off. It has been heavily influenced by bad design. Android has much looser constraints then the iPhone. I am impressed that Apple claims that 100k + iPhone apps will be available on the iPad. Especially since when I was working on an iPhone app I did not even know I was working on an iPad app. I guess I need to go back and change my resume, I am now an iPad developer, retroactively! On Jan 27, 3:44 pm, Peter Eastman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 27, 3:20 pm, Matt Kanninen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We are teaching users to always check the menu button. Some > > developers don't use it, but that is not a Framework or a User error, > > it is a Developer error. > > That reminds me of the standard UI designer's joke: "Let me explain to > you why this is intuitive!" If you have to explain it, then it's not > intuitive, and if you have to teach users to do something, then it's > not intuitive. And even if you teach them, why should they have to > take the trouble to check whether a menu's available? Why can't we > just tell them? (Answer: There's no reason we can't, and we should.) > > > Home means clear the stack. Back should do nothing after you clear > > the stack. What does home mean to you? If you want similar > > functionality to Home without clearing the stack you can long press > > the home. > > I understand that's what it means, but only because I've read the > developer documentation. The problem is that it isn't what users > expect it to mean. In a web browser, Home means, "Take me to my home > page," and Back means, "Take me back to where I was before." > > Long pressing the Home button has exactly the same problem. I'm > working in application A. Then I switch to application B. Then I > press Back and it takes me to... the home screen??? > > Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
