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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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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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.
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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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See what I mean?
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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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To me 3D Touch combines two failures: it’s bad visibility of a bad idea. :·)
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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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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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Yep! I agree. (Although, to be fair, spacebar scrolling only appeared a few months ago.)
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