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🖖 Hey! I'm Enrico and on this channel I go behind the scenes of the design, psychology and stories behind tech and making stuff on the internet. I'm a tech Product Manager, builder of things made of pixels.
Behind the simple things you do everyday and take for granted, there is a hidden world of design, engineering, psychology, copying nature and tricks that make technology usable by humans. And most people never really notice it. There is so much that I left off this video (originally it would have been 40 minutes long): if you like these topics do let me know in the comments and I will bring you more of them!
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UI/UX progressed a lot during all these years. But when you see your grandmother using your phone, you understand that there's still a long way to go...
IMHO it also doesn't help that we think that they have more patience with technology (when they don't) and we give them some crappy, old phone/PC. If they had more patience, they would already know how the menus work. My hypothesis is that a well configured (for bad sight) touch screen Android phone would work for them way better than an old, traditional mobile phone. After all tapping an item should be easier than navigating a cursor there with buttons and then pressing the select button. But I agree that there is a long way to go.
When I help her using her phone and she is struggling with a simple menu I think how much I could teach her better if the interfaces were more skeumorphic like in the past
@@enricotartarottiSkeuomorphism is ideal for users who are inexperienced with tech/computing, as they can relate icons on the screen to real-world objects that they already know and understand how to interact with.
Old people have had more time to get used to technology than children. They could have used MS-DOS all the way to Windows 11, yet they pick up a PC for the first time at 80 years old. Why?
or, be like me and realize that steve jobs was the worst designer, not the best. try being blind and use a phone with a smooth screen. jobs created huge problems and expenses for the whole world and he dealt with no consequences at all. that teaches me that people running the world cannot be trusted and aren't smarter than the average person.
That explains the countless times I mistrsuted myself for pressing the wrong button multiple times when I could have sworn that I pressed the right one...
or when you type something in English but are on a non-english keyboard that has the exact same keys...
oh god you just made me realize why typing in english is more annoying than my native language
this is why i went into developer settings and enabled show touch inputs
What I find really interesting is that, a lot of the pointers you mentioned were psychological improvements are specifically the things I dislike in the technology: I hate it when the tech tries to predict what I want to do because it removes control from what I actually am trying to do. I untoggled the edge swipe because it constantly triggered when I didn't want it to. I loathe the skeleton loaders because it doesn't work for me the way you describe it; it genuinely appears to be loading for a longer time with it than without. What I find worse is that we don't even have a choice anymore; for simplicity's sake (by which I mean a substantially smaller workload), there's only really the worse option that is intended to _feel_ better rather than actually be better.
Unrelated, but one of my favourite skeuomorphisms is the floppy disk as a save icon, primarily because it's now a relic where kids nowadays just call it a save icon (unless they've watched the multitudes of videos that has now pointed out this fun fact)
You're not alone, a lot of these improvements and revolutions aren't exactly beloved by the regular people stuck with them. Tech bros love to reinvent the wheel just for the sake of "futuristic design" , meanwhile not addressing any real issues like accessibility
The skeleton loaders are more a product of sending to much data to the client on first load than anything. If they removed the unused code they'd get quite a bit of speed back, over even focus the application on doing less.
Yes! Absolutely! Thank you for sharing cause I feel so much less alone now
The real issue isn't prediction, it's *anticipation.* It's anticipation that gets in the way, but prediction can be convenient.
My favorite feature of Bash (and other textual shells) is that we can type a full sequence of commands (not just program-names), and we can *choose* to auto-complete with a list of history-entries that have an exact common prefix with the cmd we're currently typing in the prompt!
I learned about that thanks to Mathias Bynens' `dotfiles`
these "designers" make functionality that could often have no wait time whatsoever take an interminable amount of time, which they pretend is unnoticed or enjoyable because they love looking at their own loading screens
I used to build physical interfaces for products. Feedback is one of the most important things, if you program something without visual or sound feedback, it feels not just broken, but it is annoying. They call one of the more basic annoyances the "hard touch". People refuse to give up and add more and more force to change the state of what they are seeing and think they can control.
Another funny thing was to test and implement some add on or additional features, seem people just ignore it or worse, on being asked about it specifically or asked to test, saying it is useless.
super interesting! thanks for sharing
I always felt that the phone keyboard is doing something fishy. It's so annoying to type rare or unknown words. Now I finally know why phone keyboards suck. Thank you so much! I knew it wasn't me!! 😂 I also noticed that sometimes when you tap an app icon very slightly, it shows visual feedback but doesn't open. I think these features are rather annoying tbh
Same here! I don't want visual feedback followed by a delayed action, and I don't want my phone to incorrectly guess what I'm trying to type unless it's predicting entire words! I type "rare or unknown" words literally daily. Hourly, even.
It’s very frustrating to use the calculator on my Apple Watch when I’m wearing gloves for that exact reason, I swear 70% of the time I’ll click a number, it lights up, but doesn’t get added
If you need to type more uncommon things, my best recommendation is MessagEase. Only 9 buttons, combining accents instead of long press etc.
If you use some professional terms often - you can add them to dictionary in keyboard's settings (and with GBoard even provide shorthand).
When this predictive hitbox works, it works great.
Problem is when you accidentally but consistently typo a word. It then starts thinking the typo is the correct spelling and predicts (or even autocorrects!) to the wrong spelling!
Yes, the predictive keyboard frequently doesn't work and is soooo stubborn of typing a different letter than what I actually intend to enter.
I type modelnumbers and serials a lot, and those often give the most issues.
These keyboards make the likelyhood of making a mistake on a model number of some part/product much more likely.
One of the things I've noticed about virtual displays, this also applies to sci-fi depictions of holographic/volumetric displays is how I subconsciously perceive the projection to have a sharp edge. That glowing 2D window border resembles a razor blade floating in space. Part of the UI design for the future is going to need to include an aesthetic tweaking, so that it has a friendlier feel to it. Something that invites you touch it, instead of something that might lacerate your hand if you get too close to it.
Honestly VR text entry should be done in sign language. I don't know sign language and I can't imagine that learning sign language would be easy, but it already hits all the requirements for easy interpretability, and it would also help a lot of people communicate better with hearing impaired or deaf folks
Wow I never thought about that. I admit the barrier to entry is huge but it would be super cool
Why use a less efficient way to communicate that requires constant movement?
@@makatron Why do you think it's less efficient? The text-to-speech alternative exists already, but for quiet text entry sign languages are perfect
@@insu_na way easier to figure out how to make the keyboard work than having people spelling their names, which is how ASL work, since it can be hard to track all that with the cameras in the visor that are looking down with not a great perspective. Remember ASL is meant to be seen from the front not top down.
ASL (and other sign languages) also has signs that are similar to each other. Facial expressions are another very important part of Sign Language.
And finally, Sign Languages are not 1:1 with English or French or Russian or Chinese or any other language, they have completely different grammar rules, and thus have to actually be translated the same way spoken languages are translated between.
Im impressed how the production values just goes up and up with every video you release. Very impressive to see this. Your subjects are very well chosen and you explain them very well. Kudos!
Regarding your mouse pointer example, I always figured it was angled that way because most people use their right hand to manipulate the mouse. If you hold your hand up and extend only your index finger, you’ll also notice the finger and hand are at roughly a similar slight angle.
This already implies the existence of a mouse with a button that is pressed with the index finger, which was not a given. Apple's early mice had one huge button in the center, because the concept of using two fingers to trigger different types of action (which now feels so natural to us) wasn't there yet.
@@NeovanGoth I don't think it implies that. In fact, the Apple Lisa had a left-angled pointer despite the one-button mouse.
So it wasn't angled that way because of multi-finger usage. It was pointed that way because most people are righties, and when holding up their hand to point at something (such as a restaurant menu) the hand was angled in that up-left direction naturally.
I would bet that if the world was mainly a lefty world, we'd have seen the pointer angled up-right.
@@Roccondil If the world was mainly a lefty world, the writing would also be right to left, and also the coordinate direction, leading to the image coordinate thing in the video. But well, I don't think the image coordinate thing was the main reason, it's more likely to be the hand angle
yes ruclips.net/video/YThelfB2fvg/видео.html
Im not a creative designer, but I am a very detail-oriented software engineer and I've had times where I see edge cases of interaction that higher ups just don't care about and it often bugs me.
Worse still you know how to fix it but you're not allowed.
Thank you for caring. Hopefully at some point you get into a position where you get to apply this kind of super useful sensibility. You're a credit to your profession.
I have never ever ever swiped on my screen instead of using a back button. I didn't know that was an option.
One thing I really hated, and it hasn't been as bad lately I think but maybe it's just because of the systems I'm using, is when I was selecting text from a document and if I selected from the middle of a word it would automatically select the entire word. I'm very intentional about where I start and end a selection. If I want to preserve the last 'es.', for example, because I need it and don't want to retype it, then it's really annoying if the selection automatically grabs that and I have to go back and reselect to specify that I don't want it.
Yeah fuck that. I hate it when it selects the whole text too.
This was driving me mad too!
Ugh, same! Selecting is made so much more difficult than it has to be by this.
Having recently switched from Android, I have to say that text selection is one of the most annoying things on an Iphone. On Android it just works the way you'd expect, it's super easy and precise to start and end the selection exactly where you want. On Iphone it always automatically expands and it's sometimes almost impossible to only select part of a word. It has happened many times that I tried to correct a mistake and just gave up, retyping the entire word instead...
One way to go around this is to press slightly harder on the typed text for a moment until a magnifying glass shows up by that point you can slide that around to move the selection letter by letter
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the math u mentioned is actually REALLY trivial compared to the actually hard parts of math that go in things like youtube algorythms, many engines or videogame graphics X3
Another smooth brain youtuber. 😂😂😂
UI is created for humans by humans. 🤦🏼
RUclips shorts isn’t HARDWIRED in a poor tibetan child who’s never used a youtube or a phone.
Only reason for ui hints about hidden/more features is Fluidity of use.
Eg: if a video is playing in low res (144- 480p) then even a child who’s used to watching youtube in HD or 4k will change the quality settings in a second. But how to change the settings? ( click on the video, click on settings gear icon, click quality, click advanced , then choose resolution.)
So many steps for a new person but easy for 5 yr old child with past experience. The kid doesn’t even know what the resolution numbers mean.
😂😂😂😂 youtube is full of mindless content like this.
I avoid these stupid videos but some end up on my feed anyways.
Disliking and don’t recommend channel.
The thing with that so called hot wired part is that it is not so hot wired and their is no help or tutorial option to be found anywhere at times, and so it is all a guessing game as much as I manage just fine. Yes they take it too far!
Now explain the thumbnail(!)... .
i actually have an issue with the gesture controls that have been slowly implemented over time, when I'm holding my phone the palm occasionally causes a swipe back or causes resizing randomly due to poor palm rejection, i would often prefer a physical button over a gesture
Sounds more like a palm rejection issue (Wondering why your palm is on your screen to begin with) all guestures can be turned off
Yes, please let us bring back physical buttons! At least the normal three we used to have at the bottom. I really appreciated them and want them back!
@@viddeliten You can turn gestures off and just use the three buttons.
@@arcwand there are no physical buttons on my phone except volume and power buttons.
That's why I love Huawei. That touch button is amazing.
Did you know while watching a YT video on PC, you can click and hold your left mouse button to play at 2x speed, then just let go when you want to return to 1x speed? I discovered that one a couple weeks ago. Don't use it all the time but it is cool!
Actually, same with Android too, just tap and hold the screen! Just discovered this after posting the initial comment.
I never knew that thank you!!!
It’s a new feature. Actually it is kind of annoying that they didn’t think to add an option for this.
Also, if you're using YT on a browser, you can find all the keyboard shortcuts by pressing shift and the / key, which is the '?' character. It shows shortcuts for skipping forward/backward, changing playback speed and other things as well
Thank you!@@madsenbaum
I downloaded a swipe keyboard on my phone recently. It's called Thumb Key and it has 9 buttons, with the most common letters of the english alphabet in the center.
The other letters are achieved by swiping to the side of a certain key. For example q is achieved by swiping up from h. It is pretty nice, it definitely took a lot of time to adjust to after using a normal keyboard for an extremely long time, but I like it, and I can type o it about as fast as I do when I type on a standard one.
Looked at the play store and holy crap it's expensive just for a keyboard
Ah nevermind it's free on F-Droid
@@dyschromatopsia Some use it, but most people that I've met don't
You just presented a subject that bored me to death during my Computer Engineering degree in a way that I found very interesting and hooked me in. I already knew many of the things you talked about going in, like Fitt's Law and the psychological tricks modern UIs play on us, but your presentation form actually made this terminal-dwelling person care a bunch more about UI design than my UX/UI classes ever did.
This means a lot, thank you!
My absolute favorite feature was in Instagram. When you were scrolling through people you are following - and you were not waiting for the scrolling action to finish before initiating another scrolling motion - it would register any tiny motion to the left or right and it would accidentally take you to your followers list instead. Innovation!
The keyboard thing is interesting, but I’d be interested in trying the keyboard without it to see how it feels. There are definitely times when I keep typing a letter wrong in a word even though I KNOW I am hitting the right character. After messing up the same letter a few times, I take a second to be VERY precise with that one letter. I’m curious if the more general typing would be worse enough to justify not fixing those somewhat corner cases. If nothing else I now feel validated for the times I’ve ran into that issue when I have to retype a word 3 times because the same letter keeps being wrong
0:11 It's incredible how they went through all that trouble and engineering just to "reinvent the wheel"... Typing in small keyboards had already been a solved problem for years!
They just had to keep using the old "T9" keyboard layout with predictive text.
Why on earth every single brand decided QWERTY was the best choice when touchscreen phones started popping up is beyond me... Instead of going with big buttons they went the opposite direction and just created more problems for everyone.
It wouldn't have been such a pain in the a, if at least some brands had allowed T9 to be an option (even if hidden in the UI), but nope, everyone killed it from existence and it couldn't be found anywhere ever since.
I had to google what "t9" is an uhh...no the qwerty layout is infinitely superior than "tap this button SEVERAL TIMES for one letter" and the fact you even had the thought that t9 is better makes me question your sanity. You had several opportunities to rethink your idiocy:
- When you initially had the stupid-ass idea
- While you were typing your idiotic comment
- Right before clicking send
- right after clicking send, when you could have deleted this stupid fucking take before anyone saw it and realized you're stupid
- right now, after being reminded that your idea is ret-rded.
I agree that having options is good, however I believe QWERTY is a lot faster.
Because qwery doesnt have you press the same button 3 times for one letter?
T9 was a mode on 9 key keyboards that allowed you to press each key only once per letter, and an algorithm would take a list of known words and figure out which one you meant.
@@LunaDragofelis I presume you still had to press the key multiple times if the word that you wanted to spell wasn't in the list of words though?
During the 2007 Keynote of the iPhone reveal, the coolest thing Steve demoed was the rubber band scrolling. Now I know why.
That actually explains so much. I've felt gaslit for years because it'd type the wrong thing when I could've sworn I was tapping the right key.
2:16 I have actually thought about this
The one bit I have a problem with here is the parts about "it's all hardwired into our brain" - about swipes etc. Nope. It isn't for lots of people. And it's extremely frustrating for many users when there isn't an explanation of how stuff works *somewhere*. Most users won't need it but having something left unexplained completely can alienate users and reduces the number of people who can engage with a piece of software.
It's absolutely fascinating how much psychology goes into designing a simple button... Do you know any good books about it? Would love to nerd out on it 🤓
Oh my gosh it's like you've felt my pain! I had to add a slider button to custom UI and had to modify it to actually work on the platform. There is so much that goes into making buttons that are not frustrating to use or error-prone. I'm loving this content. Thank you
about the 9 button example:
So basically, my device is runnign a rediculous amount of checks every time I click a button instead of just following my wishes immediately, aka the device is intentionally lagging??????????? Don't like that.
Now I just want a setting that lets the keyboard show the button hitboxes. Would be really useful, personally, as I type words that aren't in the dictionary literally daily (for example: names of characters or other fictional content, like "Shulker," "Koraidon," "Threepeater," etc.) and I'm realizing this is why I keep making errors when typing. Because I'm NOT making errors. My phone is trying to incorrectly predict what button i'll press next.
The keyboard thing is so fascinating like I never thought about that
Something really strange after the said, “keyboard upgrade” is that I used to type really really well on the older tech and ever since the “update” I pretty much have to use voice to text because it can’t seem to predict anything I’m going to type.
Predictive text and autocorrect has always been awful. Same with ads that apparently are based on my user data
I’ve actually sort of accidentally figured out all of these things by myself. The way buttons give feedback, work on release and cancel once outside the area is something that was “obvious” to me when hard touch screens used to be the norm. I absolutely hated when the screen immediately opens something as soon as you touch it. I hated it when you drag off and let go and it still goes through with it. I hated it when you don’t know what you’re clicking without the visual feedback. I used to be a massive Android fan boy and this was probably the majority of the experience. Eventually got my hands on an iPhone and fell in love immediately. This felt terrible for me because I was a “techy” dude which prohibits iPhones like the plague. But the user interface was just so obvious that it should have been the default. A lot of progress has been made since then for both Android and Apple but that was my experience at least.
Thank you for this video, I thought I was slowly going mad for years when I swore I hit H button 3 times already and the effing phone types Y or something
This is gold-level content noone is making this stuff from a PM/Product Designer's perspective who has as depth and quality as yours.
I'm a product designer BTW
One tiny nitpick in an otherwise really good primer to some of the stuff that interaction designers think about, when you talk about “affordances” you’re slightly wrong on what designers mean by that term. An affordance in design is simply something that can be done to an interface or object, e.g. a door can be opened, a ball can be thrown, a button can be pushed. What you’re talking about - the visual indication hinting at an affordance - is referred to as a “signifier”. In your example, the screen has “affordances” for all of those swipes you listed, but it only has a “signifier” for swiping up for lyrics.
such a cool concept for a video bro!! keep up your interesting videos!
"you'll know what the structure of the page will be"
*Changes instantly*
very informative I didn't know all these concepts and "tricks"!
yeah...
speaking about quest 3, the window drag area is another example of how important interaction feedback is. yea, the side gets marked with the same texture that the "hold device here" material uses for everyday objects, when my hand gets close. the issue is, those 2 things are from different worlds, so i cant actually tell precisely how close my hand is in the depth axis, resulting in the awkward "c'mon, grab it!" moment you portrayed at 10:35
Did anyone else see the cursor like me? 2:58
Your video reminds me of something I thought about last night, how Windows will not ALWAYS shut down when you tell it to shut down, even if you use the "shutdown" command. Someone, somewhere in the design process realized that there may be a very important program running that you might not want to interrupt unceremoniously, maybe an unsaved document or a program installer. Despite giving the computer a "command", it will not necessarily listen to it unless you make it FORCEFUL (with the /f switch)
about swipes on Android. I hate them, they're just bad. I always accidentally go back when browsing photos. I much more liked a home button with pressure sensitivity on my previous phone. It was Meizu15 lite and i believe that button worked like on iphones.
But these days we forced to use swipes because the screen should take all the space. And phones became bigger and bigger. Ugh.
And you don't need 3.5mm jack and SD card slot so better go buy some new headphones and a phone with lots of space for twice money.
5:38
Trus me, we *still* need them...
Mum was born in 1948, and is barely able to handle modern technology because they *assume* that we know things that people sometimes don't, but she *was* able to handle computers back in the days...
I honestly have no idea how people do these kinds of things, it's crazy. We are suckers for precision
great content! Mayne change the title, because you delivered wayyy more than advertised.
This explains what it happens so often where I go to type a word that starts with the letter m after a space and the delete button gets pressed, even when I swear to everything that I pressed the stupid m key, not delete
4:40 those spotfy features you mentioned, they all have affordance. while moving onto a next song the cover slides right and left and when you try to open that panel up it slides from bottom.
10:22 - After Apple released the Vision Pro, the biggest thing that stood out to me was how much progress they made in UI/UX in that segment. In fact, this relates very closely to some technological limitations of our time, too. They had to make some advancements and innovations in hand and eye tracking just to be able to perform that seemingly simple “click” (tap/select/etc) action. The moment I saw their initial demo video, it stood out to me as a rare leap in interaction design. I’m not sure how useful it is in the short or long term, but it was definitely a moment to behold.
I'm convinced that there's still a tremendous amount of untapped potential in touch screens, especially at tablet size. Every major brand treats it as a big phone (with swipe mechanics) or a small laptop (with mouse mechanics).
For me, a linux terminal is much closer to the nature than the modern web apps
it truly is but it's not sexy and cannot be sold. rational, pragmatic people are not welcome in the iStore
You should really take time and read the book "100 things every designers should know", everything you mentioned in this video, reminds me of the details that book provide. Though your video only adds more to my experience. Unique video, not many creators pay attention to things they do everyday.
8:00: I hate loading skeletons. More often than not they give me a false sense of what's being loaded. It keeps annoying me and even worse, it makes loading take way longer. I prefer seeing things getting populated with data as it's available and ready to be interacted with.
Loading skeletons are usually an annoyance to me. But they are fine in some UIs
For some reason the spotify app on android doesn't let you swipe back down on the player screen to get to the browse screen, while iOS has had it for years. It makes no sense!
6:33 Also, what goes against nature but works perfectly - is that you can accelerate scrolling further just by continuing to scroll. Sucks that it doesn't work everywhere, but the mechanic is perfect
How does adding more energy into an action go against nature here exactly?
@@crazydragy4233 friction - if you scroll by moving your finger the same speed everytime, the scroll should be the same speed, but sometimes I see that if you move finger fast enough, scroll doesn't slow down to finger speed
I've noticed that I "miss-type" more frequently on certain apps more than others. Which leads me to believe that it's more than just the hardware and the system software doing something, but also each app's shenanigans meddling in my shit.
So this is why it feels like it straight up hits the wrong letter sometimes. Like I’ll guaranteed hit the letter I want and it’ll choose the one next to it incorrectly. It’s incorrectly deciding what I want to type for me. That’s wild
I never know swiping down the phone in spotify is going to close the player until now.
Food for thought. When you talk about how most interfaces only popped up within the last 20 years and how our brains are now wired for it. That may clue in as to why it’s so hard for old people to learn tech as quickly and even at all.
Enrico, you gave us your address... 3:48
I thought I was just losing my mind. For YEARS. This feature messes with my head so bad. It causes me to consistently hit bad inputs over and over again. Maybe it helps too, idk, not a fan of touch keyboards still.
Thank you so much for this video.
Finally someone made a video about this 😮 no one appreciates the amount of extra logic and edge case handling that goes into UI
Scrolling on Android feels more natural.
You’ve obviously never used an iPhone
@@visualarts6686 You could not be more wrong.
I think the mouse cursor is meant to emulate a right hand as well as being easier like you said. The first mouse cursor demonstrated at Xerox PARC pointed directly upwards, but the Macintosh and Windows 1.0 used the top left to align the pointer. I think I remember reading something about Steve Jobs and how the cursor was designed to emulate the user pointing at the screen.
Why so much chromatic aberration? Dude chill
As someone who is new to cell phones but not computers, I have found their interlace unintuitive. I use buttons over gestures until I need more buttons than is practical and then use gestures over hiding buttons under a fn/shift/menu/etc. interface. I figured things like dedicated back/home/etc were being phased away from a default for oled burn in and to gain additional screen space. I don't use the edge gestures as my Samsung phone is sold without a bezel so the edge is hit a lot by mistake without buying a separate bezel-providing case. Samsung+android add default+optional things that can be attached to the side to swipe over as actions to get to another list of programs to launch, use accessibility magnifier, etc. My brain isn't wired to how the companies designed these interfaces though on android you have keyboard alternatives to work past some of that.
I've use mouse cursors that point up and right, then there is i-beam, paint programs, etc. that dont use the upper left for targeting too; figured upper left was related to left mouse button or common slant a mouse has on many desks but didn't think a lot about it.
3:01 nope, took litterally 1 second
3:05 i‘d argue it makes it harder cause when you just go over it quickly with your eyes, it might me invisible at that moment and you dont see it
The cursor file format allows for changing the "hot point" to anywhere on it. Most cursors were simply designed with the default upper left corner hot spot. In fact, animated cursors can CHANGE the hot spot from one frame to the next. This allows for stuff like a standard arrow cursor that spins around on its point. So yeah, maybe in windows 3.1 this was a limitation, but not since at least windows 95.
Yeah, we take a lot of things for granted, not even considering how hard it would actually take to make those "simple" things!
Thanks for the video!
As someone who learned to touch-type on a manual typewriter, I find all virtual keyboards difficult and frustrating.
Having the cursor point to the top left i think is probably the best place for it to point for English speakers. It helps it not obscure what you’re clicking. Top left being the origin is probably also rooted in speaking English where you start reading from the top left.
I love how incredibly well made this video is.
3 minutes in and I already know this channel is gold. Immediately liked and subscribed 👍
Sometimes i’ll be clicking directly perfectly centered on a letter and it’ll still choose another one. It absolutely makes me want to throw my phone across the room
Samsung's swipe to text is magical! It always knows what I want! Sometimes my swipe is sloppy and the S10e still gets it right! Cheers!
So much GUI engineering and you STILL put buttons at the top of screen (on phones) 😭
In the past that wasn't such a big deal, but now that phone screens have grown so large, buttons at the top are nearly unreachable!
Some software has artificial load time programmed in for actions that technically don't need it, because the lack of a loading period between taking an action, and receiving a success message, can result in more people assuming the message is incorrect, and that the action failed. Adding an artificial loading time in cases like this can boost the perception that "something is happening" and can be preferable in some cases UX wise to the objectively faster experience, because of the feedback a the perceived loading delay can provide for the user
I was wondering why recently when using the keyboard on iPhone, the suggested words temporarily stopped working. And while the words weren’t working, I’ve never had more trouble typing on my phone.
Yeah. Phone screens are far too small for accuracy.
If you watch your hand while you're typing on your phone you can likely catch yourself actually missing letters and still putting the right letter in. I do when I have looked.
Took software engineering, UI design, and some HCI and design thinking in uni. I remember being sourly disappointed at how obvious and simple some principles are, yet I'm constantly reminded by horrendous UX/UI that still exists out in the wild as to why we need to solidify such concepts down in the first place. I swear using my property management app made by a multi-billion business makes me want to pull my hair out.
So THAT is why it keeps reintroducing old typos no matter how carefully I type. I need to find out how to wipe out this history.
Oh, that explains a lot of why it always mistakes the same letters, specially with similar words that have slightly different letters.
I wonder if they can make a smart glove sleeve. It would pair with the smart glasses and give haptic feedback but also resistance to make you feel like you're touching surfaces that way when you're typing on a keyboard even though your hands are in the air the gloves make it feel like your hands are tapping on something solid.
I think we’ll be able to use thought-to-text relatively soon with noninvasive sensors, and that’s the most accessible and convenient method once somebody gets it right.
The fact that this is the answer to easily solvable issues if you have other priorities than sleek, empty design devoid of any features is wild. Text to speech barely works, like come one lol
We don't have flying cars, and there wasn't a need to tbh
@@crazydragy4233 TTS has to go through the added complexities of language, accents, and vocal inconsistency.
Love that Thor @PirateSoftware is just everywhere now, even in the demonstrations of the RUclips app at 9:07
I always knew there was something up with my phone and how it would never let me talk about my van. id be super careful and boom "can" until I deleted it to try again.
I knew it! i was like "whenever i type something not common it's harder" and then i figured out it was because of this. Seeing this video confirmed my thoughts :D
3:00 Don't worry, I understood the message, just wanted to add that I found the non-blinking cursor almost instantly, so it's not that hard, but a blinking cursor definitely helps
If I see the skeleton loading screen, I know something is wrong and I immediately reload the app.
The example you used for pre-inertial scrolling and the spring oscillation demonstration both prove that you're talking about things you don't understand
the grungey texture on the calculator scene u showed made me think my screen was dirty & i actually tried to wipe it off🤣
that was one of the most sublte and beautiful "subscribe" iv seen in a hot minute for granted
Broooo typing th and then testing the hit box for E and then typing two random letters and testing it is crazzyyyyy
Naw my fingers are super accurate bro lmaoooo Ive looked and i tap EXACTLY on each letter or number
For AR it feels like understanding the balance of having weightless objects have some weight might be important but very difficult to acheive
This was fantastically done. I went to subscribe and couldn't believe you only had 110k subs. This is the production value of a video of someone with 1M+. Keep up the good work.
the inertia scrolling of windows 10 mobile is one of the best i have ever felt.
Your channel definitely deserves more subscribers and views. Excellent content!
I feel like this explains why sometimes I think I hit one key but actually hit another.
Here's a cool way to verify this behavior. Type "weather," but for the last two letters, tap smack dab in the middle of 'e' and 'r.' You'll hit the exact same spot twice, but get different, but correct, letters each time.
I actually noticed this because when I'm writing something in a different language it just doesn't let me type it correctly, no matter how many times I try 🤣
this explains something for me
if I type an incorrect word, my phone will save that word as a new core memory, and then when I try to correct it it always seems to just do the same wrong word even if I press the right key. that causes it to be further cemented inside the phone and then when I do eventually type the word right it auto-corrects to the wrong word. this might explain that
UX + UI + Psychology + killer editing skills. Andiamo!
goodness me, you've just distilled everything I learned in a semester ID module into 11 mins