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Marcin Wichary
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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Dec 2018
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      Marcin Wichary Retweeted EatThaCakeANNAmae

      Mind blown, but also: If a design detail is so invisible no one knows about it, is it a failure?https://twitter.com/LipBitinANNAmal/status/1078840770864529408 …

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      How old were y’all when you found out the ridges on the bottom of the salt/pepper shakers had a purpose? pic.twitter.com/5SXIbIHjBM
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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Dec 2018
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      We’ve seen this not so long ago with the “hold space to move cursor” trick in iOS, too. “Where have you been all my life” years down the road doesn’t feel like a good UI strategy.

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Dec 2018
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          This feels different to me than “hey, there’s an arrow in the FedEx logo” (smile in the Amazon logo, bear in the Toblerone logo, whatever). Too many things end up feeling like Easter eggs, even though there is a long gradient between an Easter egg and something truly crucial.

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Dec 2018
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          Marcin Wichary Retweeted Marcin Wichary

          When I worked with Figma earlier this year on the keyboard shortcuts feature (https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1050052102129475585?s=21 …), it was in a huge part to poke this problem a bit, to build a slightly better on-ramp between casual use and mastery.

          Marcin Wichary added,

          Marcin Wichary @mwichary
          Here’s a little project I worked on with Figma that’s a bit mastery, a bit fun, and – I am happy to report – a whole lot of keys on the keyboard: https://blog.figma.com/figmas-new-finger-tips-b463bfdf14d7 …
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        4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Dec 2018
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          Please share with me if you see better onramps that already solve this elsewhere, better ways to learn about shortcuts or features or accelerators or advanced things than a tweet going viral four years from now.

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @voteprime

          See what I mean?

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        2. (((Herid Fel)))‏ @heridfan 29 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @mwichary

          this is also a problem with 3d touch which has been a failure thus far (at least IMO) for this exact reason. I never remember about it and there are ZERO visual clues even to tell you it can be useful somewhere.

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 29 Dec 2018
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          Replying to @heridfan

          To me 3D Touch combines two failures: it’s bad visibility of a bad idea. :·)

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        1. Ilya Belikin‏ @ilyabelikin 29 Dec 2018
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          It is similar to sugar servings (you should crack it in the middle): simple genius engineering people do not get at scale... which is a bad design. It is so good though I always wonder if just a bit of contextual manual may fix it.

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        2. Andrew Sims‏ @AndrewSims 31 Dec 2018
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          I only discovered space bar scrolling a few weeks ago. I’ve had various iPhones for 8 years. Virtual keyboards are unique because they can reconfigure by command or context. But because they rely on the physical keyboard metaphor there’s a limit to how you expect them to work.

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 31 Dec 2018
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          Yep! I agree. (Although, to be fair, spacebar scrolling only appeared a few months ago.)

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