No, there was no "drag up to unlock" on my previous version. So with the "new edition" I kept pushing the unlock button without realizing that I had to drag it up. The nice kid in the shop shwoed me what I needed to do.
Yes, the "apps" button is the little set of nine square dots. I see no relation between the two. Once again, why just the icons? What is wrong with language?
However, I am glad that I am not alone in finding it counter-intuitive.
I'm convinced that most interface designers are close to autistic -- incapable of seeing something from someone else's "lack of knowledge" point of view. You know the classic question. You show an autistic kid a pencil that his hidden from another kid. You ask the autistic kid; "if I were to ask that boy over there what I am showing to you, what would he say?"
A non-autistic kid over the age of about five would say "He would say 'I don't know', because he can't see it", whereas an indication of autism would be the immediate response of "a pencil", and an incapability of understanding why he would not say 'a pencil', because it clearly IS a pencil.
Well, I kind of get that feeling with a lot of interface developers. They just can't make that leap of imaginiation into the new non-geek user's head.
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Date: 2010-12-18 08:26 pm (UTC)Yes, the "apps" button is the little set of nine square dots. I see no relation between the two. Once again, why just the icons? What is wrong with language?
However, I am glad that I am not alone in finding it counter-intuitive.
I'm convinced that most interface designers are close to autistic -- incapable of seeing something from someone else's "lack of knowledge" point of view. You know the classic question. You show an autistic kid a pencil that his hidden from another kid. You ask the autistic kid; "if I were to ask that boy over there what I am showing to you, what would he say?"
A non-autistic kid over the age of about five would say "He would say 'I don't know', because he can't see it", whereas an indication of autism would be the immediate response of "a pencil", and an incapability of understanding why he would not say 'a pencil', because it clearly IS a pencil.
Well, I kind of get that feeling with a lot of interface developers. They just can't make that leap of imaginiation into the new non-geek user's head.
PJ