[HN Gopher] Hand tremors and the giant-button-problem
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       Hand tremors and the giant-button-problem
        
       Author : 0xedb
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-02-01 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | meristohm wrote:
       | To anyone developing user interfaces: please make it easier to
       | tap buttons and otherwise control the app. Music streaming apps
       | are particularly frustrating with their small, non-framed buttons
       | where a mis-click can lead to playing a song and overwriting the
       | playlist rather than adding the song.
        
         | saurik wrote:
         | I run into this constantly while using the YouTube app to
         | "watch" (where I am mostly just listening to the video and
         | otherwise carrying my phone; or even just transiently in
         | portrait while moving the device) a video in portrait, wherein
         | seemingly even very subtle touches at the edge of the device
         | will lead to it jumping to other new videos and forcing me to
         | go back... which seems to remember where I was half the time
         | but the other half of the time just goes back to the beginning
         | :/.
        
       | sleightofmind wrote:
       | Please, a hardware rocker that serves as an up/down arrow key.
       | Make it dirt simple to enable/disable in software (via, of
       | course, the touch screen). Millions of people, with of without
       | physical challenges will thank you by buying your phone.
       | 
       | I'm sure better hardware suggestions than mine have been put
       | forward to address this. Please, Dear Phone Maker who want's to
       | be fabulously successful, choose one and do it. Take the power of
       | engineered inadvertent clicks away from unscrupulous advertisers.
       | 
       | Touchscreens are wonderful but they're not the answer to every
       | need.
        
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