←back to thread

559 points cxr | 8 comments | | HN request time: 1.802s | source | bottom
Show context
BLKNSLVR ◴[] No.44476587[source]
Only tangentially related, and a seemingly lost old-man battle: stop hiding my scrollbar.

Interesting article. Some points I didn't quite agree entirely with. There's a cost and practically limitation to some things (like a physical knob in a car for zooming in and out on a map - although that was probably just an example of intuitive use).

I just recently switched a toggle on a newly installed app that did the opposite of what it was labelled - I thought the label represented the current state, but it represented the state it would switch to if toggled. It became obvious once changed, but that seems the least helpful execution.

replies(13): >>44476895 #>>44476928 #>>44477052 #>>44477272 #>>44477296 #>>44477374 #>>44477562 #>>44477584 #>>44477638 #>>44477886 #>>44478017 #>>44478439 #>>44480726 #
userbinator ◴[] No.44477272[source]
I hate toggle switches IRL too. They are just as ambiguous there. Checkboxes and pushed-in buttons are far clearer, but have unfortunately been sacrificed at the altar of "modernity".
replies(1): >>44478237 #
1. wpm ◴[] No.44478237[source]
Toggle switches in real life can and often are labeled. A toggle pointing to OFF means it’s off. Moving it to on turns it on.
replies(1): >>44478485 #
2. Nevermark ◴[] No.44478485[source]
And a toggle colored/glowing red & green, for off & on, is clear.

Boggles my mind how badly many interfaces manage to be.

replies(1): >>44478562 #
3. rasur ◴[] No.44478562[source]
Unless you're red/green colour-blind, of course ;)
replies(1): >>44478633 #
4. Nevermark ◴[] No.44478633{3}[source]
Perhaps chartreuse and teal?

More seriously, my understanding is that the octopus retina does not have color receptors, just aggregate light, I.e. brightness.

But the octopus practically has a sub-brain behind each respective eye, and the eye brains can extract color from the slight lensing differences across frequencies.

They are amazing magical creatures.

Taking that approach, and some sort of ocular lathe, and we can fix this.

replies(2): >>44478665 #>>44479560 #
5. kergonath ◴[] No.44478665{4}[source]
We can always use more chartreuse.
replies(1): >>44479218 #
6. ahartmetz ◴[] No.44479218{5}[source]
The name sounds nice, but it's just a muddy green.
replies(1): >>44482883 #
7. eru ◴[] No.44479560{4}[source]
> Taking that approach, and some sort of ocular lathe, and we can fix this.

Well, you can also just give people different coloured lenses for their two eyes. Eg one that filters out red and one that filters out green.

8. kergonath ◴[] No.44482883{6}[source]
The liqueur is nicer :)