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by lgas 1880 days ago
As phrased your suggestion to stop using icon menu bars is unhelpful. What should we be using instead and why?
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Text. You can scan it in an instant. It takes orders of magnitude longer to hover over each icon, wait for the tooltip, repeat for the more obscure ones.
I prefer the icon menu bars with text underneath the icons. iOS Apps use this a lot: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
FWIW the icons do have text labels and even descriptions when you hover over them.
I'm hovering with my finger on my phone and I don't see text labels. /s
How is this sarcastic? I hate when info like that isn't accessible on mobile devices.
Sorry I wasn't more helpful. See Jacob's reply. Keep doing what you are doing! No discouragement was intended.