If you're doing something with the phone horizontal and bottom end to the right, like reading a book or surfing the web and get a call, to answer you sweep the icon to the right.
If you have the phone vertical, you answer by sweeping to the top.
I dunno which way the sweep goes if the phone is horizontal the other way, bottom end to the left. I rarely hold the phone that way because for some reason Amazon won't make Kindle Reader able to lock the screen rotation in that direction.
The problem happens when the user moves the phone upright while sweeping. The Answer and Ignore SWAP ENDS and you can accidentally ignore a call you meant to answer.
I was hoping that would be fixed so that the answer sweep direction would either be always towards the top end of the phone or *prevented from swapping ends* once a swipe is in progress. Having situations where whatever the user is attempting to interact with goes wiggling around the screen is very bad design. (Unless it's a game where the object is to attempt to prevent the player from touching something on the screen.)
I'd much prefer that the swipe directions were always at the same ends of the screen.
That's a hack I'd love to see to fix this.
Again it comes down to engineers and designers doing their testing under idealized conditions, not doing things they know will cause problems. Companies need to bring in "normal" people who have little to no experience with such a product or user interface and experience all the ways their carefully tested gizmo can be broken. The average customer doesn't know what you, the programmer, designer etc knows, so they *do not know* what the product isn't capable of and will attempt to use it in ways you haven't even thought of, and it will fail in amazing ways. (Which is why programmers need to write very good error handling routines and *comprehensible* error messages, but mostly don't.)
There's a video on YouTube of a new phone being demoed at a trade show. The company rep goes on about how tough the phone is and tells the guy doing the interview he can do anything to the phone and it won't break. So he takes it and whangs the screen on a corner of an aquarium four times, and the screen breaks. The rep did say *anything*! CES Fail - Reporter breaks an 'unbreakable' mobile phone - YouTube So much for being able to pound a nail with it.
If you have the phone vertical, you answer by sweeping to the top.
I dunno which way the sweep goes if the phone is horizontal the other way, bottom end to the left. I rarely hold the phone that way because for some reason Amazon won't make Kindle Reader able to lock the screen rotation in that direction.
The problem happens when the user moves the phone upright while sweeping. The Answer and Ignore SWAP ENDS and you can accidentally ignore a call you meant to answer.
I was hoping that would be fixed so that the answer sweep direction would either be always towards the top end of the phone or *prevented from swapping ends* once a swipe is in progress. Having situations where whatever the user is attempting to interact with goes wiggling around the screen is very bad design. (Unless it's a game where the object is to attempt to prevent the player from touching something on the screen.)
I'd much prefer that the swipe directions were always at the same ends of the screen.
That's a hack I'd love to see to fix this.
Again it comes down to engineers and designers doing their testing under idealized conditions, not doing things they know will cause problems. Companies need to bring in "normal" people who have little to no experience with such a product or user interface and experience all the ways their carefully tested gizmo can be broken. The average customer doesn't know what you, the programmer, designer etc knows, so they *do not know* what the product isn't capable of and will attempt to use it in ways you haven't even thought of, and it will fail in amazing ways. (Which is why programmers need to write very good error handling routines and *comprehensible* error messages, but mostly don't.)
There's a video on YouTube of a new phone being demoed at a trade show. The company rep goes on about how tough the phone is and tells the guy doing the interview he can do anything to the phone and it won't break. So he takes it and whangs the screen on a corner of an aquarium four times, and the screen breaks. The rep did say *anything*! CES Fail - Reporter breaks an 'unbreakable' mobile phone - YouTube So much for being able to pound a nail with it.
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