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Shitty minimalist UX (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by electrodynamica@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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On my new phone, OnePlus with Android 12, the incoming call UX is abysmal. There is a circle with a phone handset in the middle, with white chevrons indicating you can swipe up or down. Somehow you are supposed to guess that up means answer and down means decline. On my old android 11 phone at least there was a green icon for answer and red icon for decline, but it was still swipe left or right. What is it with these asshole interface designers who think that left/right or up/down has some universal meaning? Fuck these people.

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[–] SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Buttons n' menu bars aren't cool anymore. We need 10,000 hot corners n' 32 different swipe gestures, so we don't get confused by all those buttons.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, in this case, the use of gestures makes sense, since you may otherwise accidentally accept the call, e.g. when taking your phone out of your pocket.

[–] SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I don't see how gestures improves this. I know that when I had a smartphone, I'd reach in 'n grab the whole thing with my hand. Maybe I just hold phones wrong, but I'm almost certain that I'd accidentally trigger the gesture.