A longstanding example was clicking the Update button in the MAS app. There was a maddening delay before I could tell whether my click had registered.
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Related: a key principle of graphical user interfaces is the notion of direct manipulation, which necessarily means *clear* and *immediate* visual feedback. More than once I've seen Apple fail in this respect.https://twitter.com/steven_aquino/status/1132138523635486721 …
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It may "only" be a few isolated cases across a vast amount of software, but I seriously expect *zero* cases from Apple. Just as I expect 100% correctly spelled (and capitalized) button labels, I expect visual feedback to gestures to be *clear* and *immediate* 100% of the time.
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The commonality with the tweet I quoted is: we should ask how "loud" we can make visual feedback without going overboard, NOT how subtle (or absent) we can make it without going, er, underboard.
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A subtle iOS example: dragging tabs to reorder them in Safari on iPad. It takes a tap-and-hold to distinguish that from scrolling the row of tabs. There is no visual feedback to indicate that I've "held" long enough for the meaning of my gesture to have changed.
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A watchOS example: tapping one of the built-in timer options. The visual feedback is a faint graying in the tapped button. On my old, slow Apple Watch, there was a delay before the timer actually started, so it was hard to tell that I'd successfully tapped that button.pic.twitter.com/88p9ZoTsBx
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The delay is practically zero on my new series 4 watch, but *even so* the visual feedback should be bold, never subtle. When I tap *any* button the visual feedback should always, always be (1) clear and (2) immediate.
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For example, suppose I realize mid-tap I tapped the wrong button. I can "escape" by sliding my finger off the button. I want clear visual feedback at every step of this interaction.
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In conclusion, this is exactly why "design is about how it works, not how it looks". For purposes of "direct manipulation" I'd rather have bold visual feedback in ugly colors than subtle or absent visual feedback. But ideally, of course, both bold *and* tasteful.
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