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Hidden interface controls that affect usability

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559 points cxr | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 23:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nsriv ◴[06 Jul 25 00:13 UTC] No.44476613[source]▶
Very slightly unrelated, but this trend is one of the reasons I went Android after the iPhone removed the home button. I think it became meaningfully harder to explain interactions to older users in my family and just when they got the hang of "force touch" it also went away.

First thing I do on new Pixel phones is enable 3 button navigation, but lately that's also falling out of favor in UI terms, with apps assuming bottom navigation bar and not accounting for the larger spacing of 3 button nav and putting content or text behind it.

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1. int_19h ◴[06 Jul 25 06:56 UTC] No.44478449[source]▶
I had the same story, which is why the last phone I got for my grandma was an iPhone SE (which still has the home button). This way, no matter where she ends up, there's this large and obvious thing that she can press to return back to the familiarity of the home screen.