[wpm]

> I was downloading Star Wars for my flight back to London. The only way to check progress over slow hotel wifi was to look at the progress circle, which is also the cancel button. I was aware that every time I checked progress, I was one finger-spasm away from cancelling the whole download

Oh god this.

The last 10 years of UX trends where everything has to be two or three different actions behind a single tap or tap and hold does NOT translate well onto AVP. Most iPad apps are nigh unusable, esp those with high information density. Vision is not quite as precise as a mouse cursor but it definitely not as imprecise as a tap, but only when the UI is predictable. Because where you are looking is also how you read, every informational field also needs to include either both the information and the action, or they need to be separated out.

So far there is no bigger culprit than the native Music app. The bottom of the player has like three nested buttons that all do different shit. The same place you look to see what song is playing is also a hidden progress/playback scrubber and also a shortcut to switch to the miniplayer if you happen to look at the eye catching album art icon directly next to the title of the song. It’s maddening.

[actionfromafar]

Try hanging up a call on your smartphone and your counterpart hanged up a a fraction of a second before you. Now you call someone (pretty deep down) in your recent call list.

Or click "Connect to Bluetooth headset" in Windows. Congratulations, your headset just connected itself, so you now you disconnected it.

Just brilliant, overall.

[m463]

My mother got her first iphone years ago and was just petrified of the phone app.

I couldn't blame her. You touch ANYTHING, even the spam caller in recent calls, and it immediately calls.

why oh why can't there be a setting - on by default - confirm before dialing?

[tpmoney]

It’s not the specific solution you want (and that would be a good one to have) but one option might be enabling the touch accommodations in the accessibility settings and increasing the touch delay slightly so that it takes a more deliberate touch to activate. Downside is that it applies across the whole system and applies to typing on the keyboard too

[newaccount74]

It won't help at all. The problem is that Apple seems to hate explicit buttons, so you never know what tapping something will do. Here's an example in the phone app:

- in the contacts tab, tapping a contact will show details

- in the call list tab, tapping a contact will call them

There is no way to know ahead of time. You have to try it out, and then remember that the two tabs behave differently.

I have accidentally called people when I just wanted to look at their contact details more than once, and I've been using an iPhone for 15 years or so.

[actionfromafar]

I mean, the horizontal middle of the screen could be "dead" and a call only only initiated to the left or right.

Or whatever. There are many solutions and they chose to go for one of the most frustrating designs possible.

[sfjailbird]

My favorite is watching TV and pausing a video in Netflix or whereever, then resuming and wanting the controls to disappear. If I 'cancel/return', they are removed. If I wait a while, they disappear by themselves. But if I 'cancel/return' the splitsecond the app removed them by itself, boom I just stopped the player. Just ignore input for a moment after the auto-remove ffs.

[averageRoyalty]

> Try hanging up a call on your smartphone and your counterpart hanged up a a fraction of a second before you. Now you call someone (pretty deep down) in your recent call list.

I do this daily and it infuriates me.

I am also a fast typer on both touch and physical. As a result I often type into an auto complete box (e.g. kagi, gmail, etc) and see the result I want come up midway through my type. As I'm going to click or tap it, I am often in the 200ms window where that result is replaced by another or the list is reordered in some way.

Dynamically loading webpages are also a plague of the last decade for the same reason. They load an initial layout, often interactable. Then as you're going to click or tap, they dynamically load other elements or content, reordering and moving things around the page!

If you don't have anything n̵i̵c̵e̵ ̵t̵o̵ ̵s̵a̵y̵,̵ ̵d̵o̵n̵'̵t̵ ̵s̵a̵y̵ ̵a̵n̵y̵t̵h̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵a̵t̵ ̵a̵l̵l̵ ready to load, don't load anything at all.

[bookofjoe]

YES! I counted 5 discrete actions that I had to perform in sequence in order to turn off Vision Pro. Why not an On/Off switch? Or are they saving this for Gen 2?

[larrysalibra]

Unplugging the power is the primary on-off switch.

[nomel]

No, you say “hey siri shutdown” or hold the power (crown) and volume, just like any other Apple device: https://youtu.be/3GgHWCMHjnM

[peddling-brink]

Hold two buttons, then swipe?

[ProfessorLayton]

The Apple Music team is off doing their own BS. The Music app is also trash in other platforms with terrible UX.

The Home tab in the music app shows exactly 1 tile of information on my 15 Pro Max. That's 3.6 million pixels and they couldn't be bothered to fit more than 1 item without scrolling.