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Posted by nozzlegear 1 day ago

If you're a button, you have one job(unsung.aresluna.org)
Related: https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/
541 points | 256 commentspage 7
amelius 13 hours ago|
This may be true, but it is too random and too insignificant, to my taste.

Better post an overview of everything a good button should do (no it is not just one job).

Even better, post an overview of good GUI design in general.

anilgulecha 22 hours ago||
Camera app should negate the need. most pictures are of people and scenary, and 99.99% of the time the intent is to take the photo in the right order.

Simple totally offline ONNX models exist, whcih should make it trivial to categorize the right orientation. Acceleometer/magnetometer can feed this, but should not be the default.

Just do this and avoid the hassle of rotating at all!

Cockbrand 19 hours ago||
Similarly, why don't photos get auto-straightened, maybe with an option to revert to original? I spend too much time aligning the horizon properly on snapshots that I took while cycling. The phone even has the data from the rotation sensor, so this should be fairly easy to implement.
Gabrys1 19 hours ago||
This is so true. Sorry you got downvoted.
nilirl 20 hours ago|
I understand the design principle but I would argue it's a bad implementation principle.

Engineering attention is finite. Why would you spend time thinking about 8 clicks when most people will only need ~3?

Not all user-action possibilities are equally important, and if they are, then you better have infinite resources to spend on engineering.

csande17 20 hours ago|
It's not really a question of how many taps they support, but how fast.

This same issue also seems like it would prevent you from quickly double-tapping the button to turn an image upside-down, a much more common use case.

nilirl 19 hours ago||
Not prevent, just not provide very responsive feedback, right?

I don't know, I understand the principle, but I don't see how you can determine the value of a principle outside of a specific context.

Even for accessibility, we can't target every context in the name of being accessible. We still have to pick which contexts of inaccessibility we'll need to support with more attention.

csande17 19 hours ago||
Maybe I misread the article, but I think the Nothing photos app is literally ignoring the second tap, not just failing to provide feedback